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

deForward

deForward( 
[w_window [ numSteps] ] 
) 
=> w_window / nil

Description

Allows you to go forward to a particular window event. It takes two optional integer argument; w_window and numSteps. If the command is called without any arguments it will open and display the cellview that was displayed prior to the use of the last deBack command in the current window.

Arguments

w_window

If w_window is specified the command works on the specified window. The default value for w_window is the current window.

numSteps

If the numSteps is greater than or equal to 1, you will go directly forward to the cellview that would be opened by executing the deForward(window) command numSteps times. If the value of numSteps is 0, this will display the Go Forward form. The default value for numSteps is 1.

Values Returned

w_window

The window value which you have gone forward to.

nil

If the value of numSteps is more than the number of levels you can go forward to, the API will return nil and warn that you cannot go that far forward.

Examples

Goes forward 1 step on window (3).

deForward( window(3) 1)

Related Topics

deBack


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