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- From: mwyllie@at4cad.intel.com (Mary Wyllie)
- Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
- Subject: Skill/C interface
- Message-ID: <12423@inews.intel.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:20:21 GMT
- Sender: news@inews.intel.com
- Followup-To: mwyllie@at4cad.intel.com
- Organization: intel
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- Originator: mwyllie@at4cad
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- I am doing some application development using RWS (Remote Window Services) in
- cadence. The goal is to have our primary code base in C, using skill to
- build user interfaces, and having a C layer to interface from the skill
- code. The only thing I have found to communicate from Skill to C is to send
- a message to an application window.
-
- The problem is this:
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- The message function allows a string to be passed to the application. I have
- found no other way to communicate from skill -> C other than a string. I have
- been working on a mechanism to translate strings to variables and functions,
- so that I can call effectively call C functions and set C variables from the
- Skill code. This is not trivial (unless it is made to be VERY limited).
-
- Is it possible that I'm missing some simpler way to communicate to the C code?
- Is anyone out there doing something similar? Does anyone have any elegant
- solutions? I decided that it was at least worth asking before I get any deeper
- into this!
-
- Thanks for any and all input!
-
-