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Virtuoso Studio Design Environment SKILL Reference
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

dbOpenAutoSavedCellView

dbOpenAutoSavedCellView( 
t_libName 
t_cellName 
lt_viewName 
[ t_version ] 
) 
=> d_cellView / nil 

Description

Reads the auto-saved file.

The auto-save file cannot be opened if the cellview is open. This file can only be opened for reading. If you want to save the data, use dbReopen to change to edit mode to save the file back to disk. The auto-save file is the cellview file name appended by a plus (+) sign.

Arguments

t_libName

Library name.

t_cellName

Cell name.

lt_viewName

One or more view names in one of two forms:
l_viewName is a SKILL list of view names, such as list(viewA” “viewB) t_viewName is a string containing one or more view names separated by spaces, such as "viewA viewB".

Cellviews of the cell t_cellName are searched for a name matching one from the list. If a match is found, that cellview is opened.

t_version

This argument is preserved for compatibility with earlier versions of the software and should be nil if specified.

Values Returned

d_cellView

The dbObject of the open cellview.

nil

An error is detected.

Examples

Open the auto-saved file for the layout view of cellA from the test library.

cellview = dbOpenAutoSavedCellView("test" "cellA" "layout")

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