PySide2

This example uses PySide2 to build a custom GUI that can be called from a menu in ADS. PySide2 is the GUI widget toolkit that is by default shipping along with ADS.

# Copyright Keysight Technologies 2023 - 2023
from typing import Union

from keysight.ads import de
from keysight.ads.de import app
from PySide2 import QtCore
from PySide2.QtWidgets import QDialog, QHBoxLayout, QPlainTextEdit, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout, QWidget


def all_lcv() -> list:
    import keysight.ads.de as de

    wrk = de.active_workspace()
    lcvs = []
    for lib_name in wrk.writable_library_names:
        lib = wrk.open_library(lib_name)
        for cell in lib.cells:
            for view in cell.views:
                lcvs.append((view, view.lcv_name))
    return lcvs


class CustomDialog(QDialog):
    def __init__(self, workspace: de.Workspace, parent: Union[QWidget, None] = None):
        super().__init__(parent)

        # Remove question mark, else have to deal with forbidden cursor
        self.setWindowFlag(QtCore.Qt.WindowContextHelpButtonHint, False)

        # Window title of the dialog
        self.setWindowTitle("All Cellviews in Workspace " + workspace.path.name)

        # Create the main vertical layout to add widgets into.
        main_vertical_layout = QVBoxLayout()

        # Text editor to display content
        # https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-5/PySide2/QtWidgets/QPlainTextEdit.html
        editor = QPlainTextEdit()
        editor.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAsNeeded)
        editor.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAsNeeded)
        header_line = "Total number of cellviews - " + str(len(all_lcv())) + "\n"
        editor.insertPlainText(header_line)
        # Just list the view.lcv_name from (view, view.lcv_name)
        editor.appendPlainText("\n".join(lcv[1] for lcv in all_lcv()))
        editor.setReadOnly(True)
        editor.setLineWrapMode(QPlainTextEdit.NoWrap)
        # Place text editor into main layout
        main_vertical_layout.addWidget(editor)

        # create horizontal layout for button and spacer
        horizontal_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        ok_button = QPushButton("Ok")
        # this essentially dismisses the dialog when the user clicks Ok
        ok_button.clicked.connect(self.accept)  # type: ignore
        # place button in the layout and move it to the left side
        horizontal_layout.addWidget(ok_button)

        horizontal_layout.addStretch()
        # add horizontal layout to main vertical layout
        main_vertical_layout.addLayout(horizontal_layout)

        # place the layout into the body of the dialog
        self.setLayout(main_vertical_layout)


# Create and display the dialog
dlg = CustomDialog(de.active_workspace(), parent=app.window.main_pyside2_widget())
dlg.show()

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