Set a various Toped session parameters. This function give the user an opportunity to change a wide variety of Toped features. Here only the general function syntax is described. The features altered are described separately troughout the documentation.

	void setparams …
	void setparams( param_record ) void setparams( param_record_list ) strmap param_record A record containing the name of the parameter and its value strmap list param_record_list A list of records as described above

The second function gives the opportunity to set a number of parameters with a single function call.

   setparams({"UNDO_DEPTH","100"});

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Prints the list of the used layers. Depending on the input parameters, the function reports used layers only in a certain cell, or layers used in that cells and in all cells referenced in it.

	void report_layers …
	layout report_layers( cell_name, recursive ) layout report_layers( recursive ) string cell_name Target cell name bool recursive When false, only the layers used in cell_name will be reported. When true, the layers used in the entire cell hierarchy starting with cell_name will be reported

The second function reports the layers used in the current cell.

   report_layers("some_cell",true);

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Returns the string contents of a text object. If the input is a non-text object the function flags a runtime error.

	string getlaytext( tobject )
	layout tobject target text object

The object type can be obtained using getlaytype function.

   layout list objects = select();
   if (length(objects) > 0)
   {
      if (_lmtext == getlaytype(objects[0]))
      {
         string name = getlaytext(objects[0]);
         //... more code
      }
      //... more code
   }

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Returns the name of the referenced cell. If the input is not a reference object the function flags a runtime error.

	string getlayref( robject )
	layout robject target reference object

The object type can be obtained using getlaytype function.

   layout list objects = select();
   if (length(objects) > 0)
   {
      if (_lmref == getlaytype(objects[0]))
      {
         string cellname = getlayref(objects[0]);
         //.... more code
      }
      //.... more code
   }

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Returns the type of the layout object. Toped defines a list of integer constants with the layout types (see constants).

	int getlaytype( lobject )
	layout lobject target layout object

See the examples in getlayref , getlaytext.

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