[Feature request] Additional object properties

friendfx

It would be nice to be able to see additional object properties for the following cases:

• Rectangles: The coordinates of the origin (currently only centre is shown)
• Instances: The bounding box (currently only the origin is shown)
• Polygons, rectangles, wires, (instances): The covered area, as seen in Glade.

Since I just started Ruby scripting, I am not sure if I could potentially extend the Object Properties window?

Matthias

Hi friendx,

The properties dialog is intended to edit the object's properties, so derived properties are not shown. The rectangle origin is available however - if you use the "Corners" tab, you can edit the corner coordinates instead of the center and dimensions.

You cannot (easily) modify the object properties dialog with Ruby, but you can code an alternative one.

Create a macro with the code to compute some derived properties and bind this macro to your favourite key. A starting point for the computation may is this (the code is taken from calc_area.rbm in the "Useful Ruby modules" page):

  app = RBA::Application.instance
  mw = app.main_window

  lv = mw.current_view
  if lv == nil
    raise "No view selected"
  end

  total_area = 0.0

  lv.each_object_selected do |obj|

    shape = obj.shape
    layout = lv.cellview(obj.cv_index).layout

    if shape.is_polygon? || shape.is_box? || shape.is_path?
      polygon = shape.polygon
      a = polygon.area
      m = obj.trans.mag * layout.dbu
      total_area += a * m * m
    end

  end

  RBA::MessageBox.info("Total area", "Total area of selected objects is #{total_area} square micron", RBA::MessageBox.b_ok)

Best regards,

Matthias