Install .rbm tools in Klayout in Mac

Jack

Hello, I am relatively new to Mac.

I have Klayout under Applications (as typical, I think), but where would I put the .rbm file to make it appear in the menu?

Quite often I see description as below:
It is possible however, to implement such a function in ruby. Just copy the code below to a file with extension .rbm (i.e. compute_area.rbm) and copy that file into the installation directory of KLayout. It will add a new entry to the "Tools" menu which computes the area of all objects selected.


I know what to do in Windows, but since I'm using a Mac now, any ideas?
Thank you very much for your help.

Jack

sekigawa

Hello Jack,

I think there are several ways to achieve what you want to do.
Perhaps, the simplest way is to set "KLAYOUT_PATH" environment variable.

Assuming that you are using the binary package for Mac, you may edit the Bash
script file that invokes KLayout.
For example, if you want to place *.rbm files under ${HOME}/temp directory, add

export KLAYOUT_PATH=$HOME/temp

[Ref. Dropbox]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zagsv4d8sv8f0tp/2015-1008-Jack.png?dl=0
The image shows such an example where I added some customized menus by *.rbm files.

Hope this helps you.
Kazzz

<<< File to be edited >>>
/Applications/klayout.scripts/KLayoutEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/KLayoutEditor.sh


#!/bin/bash
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File: KLayoutEditor.sh
#
# Author: Kazunari Sekigawa (sekigawa@titan.ocn.ne.jp | kazunari.sekigawa@gmail.com)
# Tested on: Mac OSX (10.10.5), Yosemite
# Last modified: October 04, 2015
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Descriptions:
#  This is to invoke "klayout" distributed as a binary package for Mac
#  in "editor" mode.
#
#  You may specify style and other options as you like by setting
#  "opt_style" and "opt_others" variable in this script.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
export KLAYOUT_PATH=$HOME/temp

#---------------------------------------------------------
# With "-n" option, multiple instances can be invoked
#---------------------------------------------------------
myKLayout="open -n -a /Applications/klayout.app --args "

#===================================================
# Pass command line parameters to klayout
# vvvvvvvvvv You may edit the block below vvvvvvvvvv
opt_mode="-e"
opt_style="-style=cleanlooks"
opt_others=""
# ^^^^^^^^^^ You may edit the block above ^^^^^^^^^^
#===================================================
options="$opt_mode $opt_style $opt_others"
targetfiles=$@

echo "### Starting KLayout in Editor mode..."
$myKLayout $options $targetfiles &

exit 0

#-------------------
# End of file
#-------------------

Jack

Sekigawa,

Thank you for your help.
I found another way: Show the package contents of Klayout, and copy the .rbm file to MacOS folder, then it's done!

Jack