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Accessing the Cellview ID

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You do not need to supply the cellview ID as an argument when you execute a Virtuoso^® relative object design (ROD function within the body of a pcDefinePCell statement or within the body of a tcCreateCDSDeviceClass function call. The cellview ID defaults to the local variable pcCellView or tcCellView, respectively.

You need to specify the cellview ID when you execute a ROD function in the command interpreter window (CIW). You can get the cellview ID from the active cellview window or from the database, without opening a cellview window.

Getting the Cellview ID

To get the cellview ID, do one of the following:

• To get the cellview ID for the cellview in the active open cellview window, type the following:
  

  cvId = deGetCellView()

• To get the cellview ID without opening a cellview window, type the following:
  

  cvId = dbOpenCellViewByType( "myLib" "myCell" "layout" "w" )

  where myLib is your library name, myCell is your cellview name, layout is the view type, and r sets the mode to read-only. The cellview will be opened only in the database, not in a window.
  For more information, see dbOpenCellViewByType.