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Subject: Getting list of objects in a database
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ahamlett
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12/19/2007 9:43 AM  
Say I have this code which opens a cell view and assigns the database id to test.
test = dbOpenCellViewByType("library" "cellname" "view")

Is there a way to get a list of all the available objects in this database?
Right now, I loop through each object and print its name.
<br>
foreach(i test~>instances<br>
            println(i~>cellName)<br>
)<br>

For debugging I would like to be able to print a tree of the heirachy of the database. Is this possible?
Does the 
dbFindProp()
function have something to do with this?
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rairaj
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12/19/2007 10:27 AM  
Design->Hierarchy->Tree has already got all the info apart from top level shapes which can be accessed using:
test~>shapes

Raj
dmay
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12/19/2007 10:29 AM  
Sourcelink has some examples:

http://sourcelink.cadence.com/docs/files/Application_Notes/2002prev/Framework_Application_Notes/Database_Traversal.html

-Derek
ahamlett
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12/19/2007 10:34 AM  
Posted By rairaj on 12/19/2007 10:27 AM
Design->Hierarchy->Tree has already got all the info apart from top level shapes which can be accessed using:
test~>shapes

Raj
That gives me the hierarchy of cells, but I want objects such as 
test~>libName
.
I need a list of all the data objects available inside the test database such as libName, cellName, layerName etc.
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adbeckett
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12/19/2007 10:36 AM  
Try the attached code. I think you'll find it useful...

Regards,

Andrew.

Attachment: dataBrowser.il
rairaj
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12/19/2007 10:40 AM  
test~>? gives you all the attributes
test~>?? gives all the attributes and their values

But remember that some of the values could be db ID's so a further foreach will be required.

dataBrowser.il will give you a graphic represenation of database so you can drill down by just a click.
ahamlett
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12/19/2007 10:57 AM  
Posted By adbeckett on 12/19/2007 10:36 AM
Try the attached code. I think you'll find it useful...

Regards,

Andrew.

Thank you!

Posted By rairaj on 12/19/2007 10:40 AM
test~>? gives you all the attributes
test~>?? gives all the attributes and their values

But remember that some of the values could be db ID's so a further foreach will be required.

dataBrowser.il will give you a graphic represenation of database so you can drill down by just a click.
Thank you too!

This was exactly what I have been looking for :)
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ahamlett
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12/19/2007 11:02 AM  
Posted By adbeckett on 12/19/2007 10:36 AM
Try the attached code. I think you'll find it useful...

Regards,

Andrew.


I didn't even have to load dataBrowser.il because TI had already loaded it into Cadence!

I can learn a lot from that source code. Thanks!
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