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Subject: Skill Routine Loads From Command Line but Not ilinit
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CJB
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4/23/2008 10:47 AM  
I know this may be a pretty broad question, but here it comes :) I have a skill routine in my Skill path that has no problem loading from the command line, ex: (load "tools.il") The skill routine works perfectly with no errors. The registerd functions work without issue. However when I try to load it through allegro.ilinit I get an error: E- *Error* load: error while loading file - "tools.il" With no other error messages. When I try to run a registered function (ex function_name) it gives an error like: E- *Error* toplevel: undefined variable - function_name At this point if I load it manually at the command line it works fine. Is there something different required to load skill from the ilinit as opposed to loading from the command line? Why would it work one way and not the other? Thanks for any help. Chris
CJB
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4/23/2008 10:50 AM  
Sorry for the big paragraph. I typed it out with paragraphs but the formatting was lost when I posted??
Randy R.
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4/23/2008 10:59 AM  
Two possiblities that I can think of:
1) You may need to use skill load command syntax; i.e. load(filename,...) see the sklangref.pdf in the Allegro installation doc subdirectory
2) You may need to specify the full pathname. Maybe the Skill path isn't active at the time the ilinit file is checked?
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fxf
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4/23/2008 2:04 PM  
You should make sure you do not execute any AXL APIs during allegro.ilinit except for axlCmdRegister.
Neither the Allegro database nor the user interface is active when allegro.ilinit is parsed, so you need to stay away
from having any AXL code execute.

For example the following is not legal because an AXL function is executed during:
p = axlDBGetDesign()

But the following will work since the AXL API is inside a function that is not excecuted
procedure( testme()
p = axlDBGetDesign()
printf("%L" p)
)
axlCmdRegister("test" 'testme)


Contents of allegro.ilinit:
1) Define new functions (procedures)
2) axlCmdRegister allowed
3) minimize the number of global scope variables. If you need to them keep it as simple as possible (e.g initialize to nil)
CJB
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4/24/2008 6:49 AM  
Thanks for the replies! fxf you got it. I had a single AXL API executing (besides axlCmdRegister) to define a global variable. Removed that and all is working good. Thanks you so much :)
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