Documentation Updates
The following guides in the OpenROAD documentation set were updated for OpenROAD 6.2. Significant changes are highlighted below. (For a complete list of guides included with OpenROAD, see the Getting Started.)
Installation and Configuration Guide
New information is added for OpenROAD 6.2 installation.
Language Reference Guide
New and updated system classes, attributes, methods, and events are documented.
Migration Guide
Planning and instructions for migrating your applications from previous versions of OpenROAD to 6.2 is now included.
Programming Guide
SK_BREAK usage and the ProcExec InInitialize attribute in frame initialization are included. Loadnrun is documented in its own chapter.
System Reference Summary
This guide reflects the changes made to the Language Reference Guide.
Workbench User Guide
This guide documents: the new environment variables, setting the floating menu bar or the Property Inspector to always be on top, new functionality of the Table Selection dialog, new fields on the Select a Database Table dialog, the use of TableField ExactHeight and ExactWidth in the Property Inspector, qualified class names in the Class Editor's "Inherited From" column, the searchable Field Tree, FP_BITMAPCLEAR, the use of the -nowindows and -L flags in command line utilities, the new createapp and renameapp command line utilities.
Path Notation Standardized for Windows
The directory structure of an OpenROAD installation is the same regardless of operating system. Rather than showing path examples for all environments, the OpenROAD documentation now standardizes on Windows notation. However, where paths differ, both Windows and UNIX locations are given.
The II_SYSTEM environment variable is represented with Windows notation also.
For example, when describing the location of a file, the guide shows:
%II_SYSTEM%\ingres\files\filename
On UNIX/Linux, the location is:
$II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/filename
If you are using OpenROAD in a UNIX/Linux environment, substitute forward slashes accordingly.
Last modified date: 12/20/2023