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Cadence Library Manager User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

Select an icon Form

Use this form to add icons to the attribute.

Field Description

Icon Source

This section lets you select the directories from which you want to display icon files in the Files list.

All directories in Cadence search path (setup.loc)

Displays icons from all icon directories found by CSF search in the Files list. Specifically, icons from the following sub-directories of every location specified in your setup.loc file are displayed:

icons/library/16x16

icons/16x16

If an icon definition is found in multiple locations, the definition from the location that has higher precedence in the setup.loc file is used. If an icon is found in both an icons/library/16x16 and an icons/16x16 directory, the icon from the icons/library/16x16 directory is used.

You can place the cursor over an icon file name in the Files list to see which directory it is obtained from.

Specific directory

Lets you select a specific directory from which to display icon files.

All directories found by CSF search that contain an icons/library/16x16 or an icons/16x16 subdirectory are listed in the drop-down list. Until you create your custom icon directories, only the directories containing Cadence application icons gets listed in this field, such as the your_install_dir/share/cdssetup/icons/16x16 icon directory.

Files

This section displays all icon files found in the directories specified in Icon Source.

Show names containing

Lets you specify a pattern to filter icon file names. Only the file names containing the pattern are displayed.

Related topics

Selecting an Icon for a Library Display Attribute


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