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Virtuoso Layout Suite XL: Connectivity Driven Editing User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

showTabs

ab showTabs string { "tab1 tab2 tab3 tabNameX" | "all" }

Description

Controls the display of tabs in the Annotation Browser when the assistant is launched. You can choose to display the tabs selectively, or display all.

The default is all.

You can also right-click any tab name and use the displayed shortcut menu to choose the tabs to be displayed. The shortcut menu also gives you an option to hide all the tabs. This will close all the tabs, except either the currently active tab or the one that is assigned the first position.

GUI Equivalent

Command:

Right-click any Annotation Browser tab

Field:

Name of the tab to be displayed (Click the tab name)

Each tab name clicked in the shortcut menu displays the corresponding tab in the Annotation Browser.

Examples

envGetVal("ab" "showTabs")
envSetVal("ab" "showTabs" 'string { "Connectivity" "DRC/DFM" } )

Related Topics

Annotation Browser Shortcut Menus

List of Layout XL Environment Variables

Setting Environment Variables


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