Re: skill for creating slot in a existing polygon/wide metal

Hi Mengay,

Welcome to skill ;-)
The best thing for a beginner is to put hands on and sink your head
into the Cadence Do***entation. I think it is worth having  a glance
at :

1. The Skill User Guide: $CDSHOME/doc/sklangref/sklangref.pdf
2. The Skill reference Manual: $CDSHOME/doc/sklanguser/sklanguser.pdf
3. The User interface Manual: $CDSHOME/doc/skuiref/skuiref.pdf
4. Custom Layout SKILL Functions Reference: $CDSHOME/doc/sklayoutref/
sklayoutref.pdf

The main function that helps in cutting shapes is "leChopShape" or
"leHiChop" in interactive mode (Doc 4). Do note that "le" prefixed
skill ****nctions could not be used in a pcell code. That's it !!

So I would advice to : Open your cellView, select your shapes, do the
calculation to determine the length/area and stuff ... and then call
leChopShape. Something like :
cv = dbOpenCellViewByType("libName" "cellName" "layout" nil "a" )
    when(cv
      foreach( shape cv~>shapes
        ; Do whatever you want to do
       leChopShape(
            d_shapeId
            l_points
            g_closed
            [ g_remove ]
            [ x_sides ]
       )
       ; Do whatever you want to do
      )
    )
Give a look to this :
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.cad.cadence/browse_thread/thread/8b11076db3fb7910/

For your pullDown Menu, look at doc 3. Loads of examples are given
there !! : This is one of them

;;; Creating a new window to be used as the current window
hiOpenWindow()
;;; creating the "Raise Current Window" menu item
trRaiseCurrentWindow = hiCreateMenuItem(
   ?name 'trRaiseCurrentWindow
   ?itemText "Raise Current Window"
   ?callback "hiRaiseWindow( hiGetCurrentWindow() )"
)
;;; creating the Navigation pulldown menu
hiCreatePulldownMenu(
   'trPulldownMenu ;;; menu handle
   "Navigation" ;;; menu title
   list( trRaiseCurrentWindow)
   "" ;;; empty help string
) ; hiCreatePulldownMenu
;;; inserting the pulldown menu in the CIW
hiInsertBannerMenu(
   window( 1 )
   trPulldownMenu
   0
)

Enjoy !!

Riad.