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The 'mousecommand' window

 

The mousecommand window provides you with information about the meaning of mousebutton clicks within the context.

For example, if you select the move unspecific function, the mouse command window tells you that you have to select the object you want to move with a click of the left mouse button (see picture 3.5).


  
Figure 3.5: mouse window after selecting 'move unspecific'
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After having selected the object to move, the window contents tell you that you can stop moving the object with another click of the left mouse button (see picture 3.6).


  
Figure 3.6: mouse window after selecting device to move
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After having moved the object , the window contents change again telling you that you can move another object with another left mousebutton click, or you can leave the 'move' event procedure with a click of the right mousebutton. (see picture 3.7).


  
Figure 3.7: mouse window after placing the device
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If you are an experienced user or if you have a small screen, you might not want to display this window. In this case, edit setup file 'setup.spi'
 

and change the entry
want_mousecomwindow yes
to
want_mousecomwindow no .

The next entry in the mouse command window is the 'spice command' entry. Here, you can directly enter spice3 commands which will then (after hitting the RETURN key) be sent to the spice3 command interpreter. As an example, you can display all the simulation variables by pressing 'print all', or you can switch to a certain simulation by typing 'setplot' and then save the results of this simulation.

The next window entry is the 'SPICECAD (batch mode) command'. Here, you can enter commands which have the same meaning as the commands which would be written into a batch command file. Please read chapter 'Batch execution' on page [*] about how this works. As an example, by typing 'runsim', you can start a simulation without the need to go into the simulation menu or without pressing the hotkey 'CTRL r'.

The 'current status' hotkey tells you someting about the recent event procedure. So, when you interrupt moving things to take an incoming phonecall, the mousecommand window will remind you of what you had done minutes ago when you stopped working with SPICECAD.

When running SPICECAD in demo mode, where pre-recorded actions are displayed on the screen without any user interaction (see chapter 'Online demo using pre-recorded SPICECAD sessions' on page [*] ) , the recently hit hotkey is displayed next to the entry 'current hotkey'. This entry appears only when setting the flag 'want_hotkey_info' entry inside the setup file 'setup.spi'   to 'yes'. If it has been set to 'no', hotkey information is not displayed.


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Martin Maschmann
1999-10-10