Fudgy McFarlen

I want to be able to write a script to mass change all the libraries that a project depends on in order to make better B.O.M.  Bill Of Materials.  The following script lists the libraries in the project directory.  It writes the names of the libraries with full path to a text file named: ListOfLibraries.txt

//—— Get the Project Path ——//

string Project_Path;
string get_project_path() {
      if (board)     board(B)     return(filedir(B.name));
      if (schematic) schematic(S) return(filedir(S.name));
      if (library)   library(L)   return(filedir(L.name));
}

Project_Path = get_project_path();
dlgMessageBox(Project_Path, "+Yes", "No","Maybe");

string F[];
int i;
int n = fileglob(F, Project_Path + "*.lbr");                                                     //– Get file names with .lbr extension in project directory 
output(Project_Path + "ListOfLibraries.txt", "wt"){ for(i=0;i<n;i++){ printf(F[i] + "\n");}  }   //– Write all the .lbr file names to text file

string ResultOfLibCount;
sprintf(ResultOfLibCount, "The number of libraries is %d", n);
dlgMessageBox(ResultOfLibCount, "+Yes", "No","Maybe"); 

fileglob stuffs an array with the files that satisfy the condition specified by the string supplied.  

When you need to know the path of the project you are running the ULP within the following code snippet is useful.

string get_project_path() {
  if (board)     board(B)     return(filedir(B.name));
  if (schematic) schematic(B) return(filedir(S.name));
  if (library)   library(B)   return(filedir(L.name));
}

string Directory;
Directory = get_project_path();
dlgMessageBox(Directory, "+Yes", "No","Maybe");   

You select a device in an opened library for edit by using this syntax:  edit deviceset

Value is set to an active editable value with the syntax:  value on

Thus on a meta level this script is going to do the following things for each part in the library:

• write the open device command to script file using syntax:  edit deviceset
• write the turn the device value to script file using syntax: value on
• repeat until all the parts in the library have been cycled through

This script will build upon the script that lists the devicesets in a library.

//—— Get the ULP Path ——//

string ULP_Path;
char bkslash = '/';
int pos = strrchr(argv[0], bkslash);

  if (pos >= 0) 
    { 
      ULP_Path = strsub(argv[0], 0, pos + 1);
    }

output(ULP_Path + "TurnValueOnAllParts.scr", "wt"){library(L) { L.devicesets(D) { printf("edit " +  D.name + ".dev" + "\n"); 
                                                                                  printf("value on \n");
                               
                               }}}

Note that the script cycles through devicesets and not devices.