DVT PSS IDE User Guide
Rev. 24.1.5, 13 March 2024

22.2 Customizing the Dialog Output

Because the id of a widget can be any string, you can construct a wide variety of output formats simply by changing the form of the id. Some common use-cases are:

  • Bash style dash arguments, e.g.:

       id=" -name " => -name value

  • Simulator style plus arguments, e.g.:

       id=" +incdir+" => +incdir+value

  • Make style equals arguments, e.g.:

       id=" name=" => name=value

The dvt:Container widget

This widget acts just like a Composite (i.e. you can surround sets of widgets or composites with it), but also takes some configuration parameters that are applied for all the widgets it contains.

  • To specify values for checkboxes use checkboxOffValue and checkboxOnValue parameters:

XML

   <dvt:Container layout="layout:grid;" parameters="checkboxOnValue: -cov 1;checkboxOffValue: -cov 0">
       <Button id=" " style="CHECK" text="Collect coverage" selection="true" />
   </dvt:Container>
   <dvt:Container layout="layout:grid;" parameters="checkboxOnValue: -wave 1;checkboxOffValue: -wave 0">
       <Button id=" " style="CHECK" text="Dump wave" />
   </dvt:Container>

Output:

   -cov 1 -wave 0

  • The default separator for list elements is ;. To change it, use listSeparator parameter:

XML

   <dvt:Container parameters="listSeparator: -f ">
       <dvt:DirectoryFilesListing id=" -f " rootDirectory="/tmp/files"/>
   </dvt:Container>

Output:

   -f file_1 -f file_3 -f file_5 -f file_7

  • To prevent the widget id from being output when the value is empty use noIdForEmptyValues parameter:

XML

   <dvt:Container parameters="noIdForEmptyValues:true">
       <Text id=" -text "></Text>
   </dvt:Container>

  • To quote values use quoteWith parameter:

XML

   <dvt:Container layout="layout:grid;numColumns:2;" parameters="quoteWith:'">
       <Label text="Text:"></Label>
       <Text id=" -text " style="BORDER" text="text with whitespace that needs to be quoted" />
   </dvt:Container>

Output:

   -text 'text with whitespace that needs to be quoted'

Note: If you wish to quote a string with double quotes you should escape the double quote character from XML syntax as follows:

   <dvt:Container parameters="quoteWith:&quot;">

  • To show information about the value of a certain widget in the console title use showInTitle parameter:

XML

   <dvt:Container parameters="showInTitle:true">
      <Label text="Seed:"></Label>
      <Text id=" -seed " style="BORDER" text="42223" />
   </dvt:Container>

Output

  • To disable a set of widgets based on the selection state of a radio button, checkbox or the value of a combobox or text widget, wrap the set of widgets you want to disable in a <dvt:Container> and specify which widget dictates its enablement using the enabler attribute. You can refer to a widget with its standard XML XPath within the dialog xml:

XML

   <Group text="Radio buttons" layout="layout:fill;type:VERTICAL;">
       <Button id=" -test random" style="RADIO" text="Run a random test" selection="true" />
       <Button style="RADIO" text="Run a specific test" />
   </Group>
   <dvt:Container enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[2]" layout="layout:fill;type:HORIZONTAL;">
       <sv:ClassSelector id=" -test " question="Pick test" baseClassName="uvm_test" />
   </dvt:Container>

Output

XML

   <Combo items="run_random_test;run_specific_test" layoutData="horizontalAlignment:CENTER;"> 
   </Combo>
   <dvt:Container enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Combo == run_specific_test" layout="layout:fill;type:HORIZONTAL;">
       <sv:ClassSelector id=" -test " question="Pick test" baseClassName="uvm_test" />
   </dvt:Container>

Output

You can combine the states of multiple buttons or comboboxes/text widgets using logical operators, and you can refer the same widget from multiple <dvt:Container> widgets:

XML

   <Group text="Resolution" layout="layout:row;type:VERTICAL;">
        <Button style="RADIO" text="800x600" selection="true" />
        <Button style="RADIO" text="1024x768" />
        <Button style="RADIO" text="1280x1024" />
        <Button style="RADIO" text="1600x1200" />
   </Group>
   <Group text="Refresh Rate (Hz)" layout="layout:row;type:VERTICAL;">
        <Button style="RADIO" text="70" />
        <dvt:Container
             enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[1] ||
                      /Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[2] ||
                      /Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[3]">
             <Button style="RADIO" text="80" />
        </dvt:Container>
        <dvt:Container
             enabler="!/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[3] &amp;&amp;
                      !/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[4]">
             <Button style="RADIO" text="90" />
        </dvt:Container>
        <dvt:Container enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[1]">
             <Button style="RADIO" text="100" />
        </dvt:Container>
   </Group>
   <Group text="Color depth (bpp)" layout="layout:row;type:VERTICAL;">
        <dvt:Container
             enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[1] ||
                      /Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[2]">
             <Button style="RADIO" text="16" />
        </dvt:Container>
        <dvt:Container
             enabler="/Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[3] ||
                      /Composite/Composite[1]/Group[1]/Button[4]">
             <Button style="RADIO" text="32" />
        </dvt:Container>
   </Group>

Output

NOTE: To easily obtain the XPath to a specific widget run the dialog once, and identify the widget(s) inside the <dialog_name>.snapshots.xml file which is automatically generated/updated by DVT after each run.

Further customization can easily be achieved by using a simple script for processing arguments. E.g. with the following bash snippet you can convert any argument to any desired form:

   #!/bin/bash
   #
   # bash_arg_converter.sh
   #
   while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
       case $1 in
         -custom_*)
            argname="$1"
            shift
            argval="$1"

            ## Customize here to desired format ##

            echo -n " $argname $argval "
         ;;
         *)
            echo -n " $1 "
         ;;
       esac
       shift
   done

In the configuration command box use the following instead of ${dvt_dialog_prompt}:

   `./bash_arg_converter.sh ${dvt_dialog_prompt:customdialog.swtxml}`

How to avoid quoting problems: in the .swtxml file it is recommended to use \&quot; for nested quotes and for the Launch Command (Run Configurations > Launch Command) the variable ${dvt_dialog_prompt:customdialog.swtxml} should be surrounded by quotes, like in the image below: