Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

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. 

For my BOM ULP I want to use attribute fields that you can see here.  To do this I need to know how to read an attribute.  The code snippet below does that.  The test attribute name is FUDGE and the test value is VANILLA.   To read attributes you need to know what they are called as you will see below.

dlgMessageBox("Do you want to count the parts?","Yes","No","Maybe");                       //opens a dialog box: no matter what you answer it will count the parts.   It is a joke.

//—— 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);
    }    

//—— This is the loop that gets the parts and writes to file —–//

int cnt=0;

output(ULP_Path + "ListOfParts.txt", "wt")
{  
if (schematic) schematic(S)                                                                //This nested set of loops cycle through all the parts and increment the count each pass through
  {
    S.parts(P)
      {
        P.instances(E)                                                             
          { 
            printf(E.name + "     " + E.value + "     " + P.attribute[“FUDGE”] + "\n");
            cnt++;
          }
      }
  }
 } 
  

string result;
sprintf(result, "The parts count is %d", cnt);
dlgMessageBox(result, "+Yes", "No","Maybe");                                               // display the parts count in a dlgMessageBox
  
exit(0);