OpenAccess Scripting Language Interfaces Architecture
At DAC 2011 I gave a presentation on the architecture of oaScript at Si2’s OpenAccess Scripting Language Workshop.
OpenAccess
Use Multilingual UTF-8 Strings with any OpenAccess Version
In this article I show you how to use multilingual UTF-8 strings with standard, unmodified OpenAccess oa-22.04p028 release.
In the last article, I introduced UTF-8, the popular 8 bit encoding of Unicode into multibyte character strings that can represent virtually every written language in history. I presented the OpenAccess software changes required to fully support UTF-8 and showed you how to convert your existing application software to properly manipulate UTF-8 in the OpenAccess oaString class.More
Modify OpenAccess to Handle Multilingual UTF-8 Strings Natively
I once had a job scrutinizing Virtuoso schematics that contained many useful annotations written in Italian. EDA tools generally support only ASCII strings, but the Italian designers were lucky–theirs is one of the few languages that can be written naturally using the same characters as English.
Wouldn’t it be nice to annotate designs in OpenAccess databases using any of the world’s languages? You can do it right now, using any OpenAccess release.More
Eclipse IDE with OpenAccess
Eclipse works great for me as an C++ integrated development environment (IDE) for OpenAccess-based applications. It supports all the same platforms as OpenAccess, and it’s free software.
This article addresses C++ application development using Eclipse CDT. I wrote another article on using Eclipse PyDev to develop OpenAccess Python applications.
Here’s how to get started. Your comments and corrections are always appreciated.