How You Can Import and Export Applications and Components
In OpenROAD Workbench, you can import or export components in proprietary OpenROAD ASCII format or human-readable XML. You also can use the ImportApp and ExportApp utilities to copy applications and components between a file and the database, or vice versa.
ImportComp
Lets you copy an individual component from a proprietary text file or XML file created previously by ExportComp into an application
ImportApp
Lets you copy either an entire application or an individual component from a proprietary text file or XML file created previously by ExportApp into a database
ExportComp
Lets you copy an individual component from an OpenROAD application to a proprietary text file or XML file
ExportApp
Lets you copy either an entire OpenROAD application or a single application component from the database into a proprietary text file or XML file
These utilities enable you to:
• Move an application from one system to another
• Back up an application outside of OpenROAD
• Copy frames and procedures between applications
Notes:
• When transporting proprietary ASCII export files, be sure to do an ASCII-mode transfer so that translation between <LF> and <CR/LF> is handled correctly.
• OpenROAD image files are binary files. When transporting image files between different platforms, be sure to do a binary-mode transfer to avoid any conversion problems.