Re: [Gtkwave-users] Requests: signal name for bound process script, export SVG,

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Hello Sujay,

I understand what you want to do for #1. I'm telling you that from
gtkwave's perspective, it's a different process, so it's not more
efficient for me, though it might be for you as a developer.

Note that passing signal names can be done along the "$" directive
mechanism. I had to look at the source to see what it's doing as I
wrote this code back in 2010...

See save_nodes_to_export_generic() in vcd_saver.c and add whatever you
need. Some information is already there. If you look at existing input
coming from gtkwave, especially lines starting with "$", you'll see a
line like this:

$comment name val[7:0] $end

...I think such a name or something similar would give you what you
need.

For #3, yes, they're static. If gtkwave was a tool designed for
generating documentation, it could certainly throw new fonts up at
will, but doing so would be very bad for performance for an
interactive tool. 

-Tony

	-----------------------------------------From: "Sujay Phadke" 
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Sent: Monday March 20 2023 2:20:05AM
Subject: Re: [Gtkwave-users] Requests: signal name for bound process
script, export SVG,

 Hey Tony,  Thanks for the reply. But I don't understand the responses
1 and 3: 
 1. Yes, a new process will be spawned for every signal. However, the
logic of the executable will still remain the same. I want to do
something like: 
 if 'sig_name' == 'signal0':  sys.stdout.write('Nonen') else:
  sys.stdout.write(readline)  
 Unless we pass the metadata for the signal, I don't see how a
separate process will help. Either passing in the signal name/id as
metadata on stdin, alongwith the signal values, or calling the process
with an argument in the TCL script would work. 
 Is there a way to accomplish this? 
 3. I know about those rc variables. However, those are static aren't
they? I want to be able to change the waveform text foreground color
dynamically (per wave phase), just as we do with the background color
(using the ?...? prefix before the value in the translation file).  Is
there a way to do this? 

 On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 1:01 PM  wrote:
  Thanks for your comments.

 1) Each signal has a separate process instance / set of stdin/stdout
attached to it for process filter, so even though you'd be able to use
a single script, performance-wise it wouldn't really make too much
difference as multiple processes will be created, anyway.

 2) Unfortunately, I don't have the time for such a thing right now.
PS and Framemaker do generate lists of vectors but I don't know if a
converter exists from those to SVG. Someone else is working on a GTK4
port and I don't know if his changes will address this as I believe he
was planning on collapsing the redundant print.c code into what
signal.c/waveform.c already does.

 3) The rc variables fontname_signals and fontname_waves should allow
changing the fonts. See function do_font_load() in fonts.c.

 Best regards,
 -Tony

	----------------------------------------- From: "Sujay Phadke"
 To: gtk...@li...
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 Sent: Sunday March 19 2023 11:52:19PM
 Subject: [Gtkwave-users] Requests: signal name for bound process
script, export SVG,

 Hello everyone,  First of all, I must say the GTKWave is an excellent
program. Kudos! 
 I wanted to request the following: 1. Signal name for process filter
script - currently, I have a python script used as a process filter
for various signals. However, I want to parse the input data
differently, based on what signal it is coming from. Example: for
signal0 I may want to convert “-1” to “None”. However, I may
not want to do that for signal1 
 The only want I know of currently is to attach different scripts to
different signals, which is inefficient. Is there a way that the
signal name could also be passed on to the script?  
 2. Please consider having the ability to export the current view as
SVG file. It makes it much more efficient for presenting or pasting
into a webpage.  
 3. Can the font color of the text inside the waves be changed? I can
only change the background color of a waveform using the
“?bgcolor?” prefix before the name. Problem is, some background
colors are useless since the text inside is too light in color. I’m
forced to use only dark backgrounds as a result.  
 Best regards, Sujay   _______________________________________________
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