Saving and Restoring Window Positions in Virtuoso

You can save the current position of design windows and forms. The exact information saved depends on your application.

To save window and form positions:

1. From the CIW, choose Options – Save Session.
   The Save Session form appears.
   
   
   The default location appears in the Look in field. The default name appears in the name field. The type is Session files (*.save).
2. In the Look in field, change the directory location for the saved session file.
3. In the name field, type a different name for the saved session file.
4. Click OK.
   The program saves session settings to the specified file.

Restoring Window Positions of the CIW

To restore the window and form positions saved from a previous session:

• Start the Cadence software using the -restore option as follows:
  

  startupCmd -restore session 

  where startupCmd is your startup command and session is the session file name that you saved previously.

For example, to start the virtuoso binary and restore the settings saved in the default cdsSession.save file, type:

virtuoso -restore cdsSession.save

Saving and Restoring the Position of the CIW Using SKILL

To save and restore the position of the CIW:

1. Move the CIW to the desired location and resize it the way you want it.
2. Note the hiResizeWindow command that the program writes to your CDS.log file:
   

   cat ~/CDS.log

   For example:

   \a hiResizeWindow(window(1) list(532:0 1257:193))

3. Type the hiResizeWindow command as it appears (everything after the \a) in your .cdsinit file to cause the program to move and resize the CIW according to these settings the next time you run it.

Related Topics

hiResizeWindow

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