Editing and formatting HDL items in the List window
Once you have the HDL items you want in the List window, you can edit and format the list to create the view you find most useful. (See also, "Adding HDL items to the List window" )
To edit an item:
Select the item's label at the top of the List window or one of its values from the listing. Move, copy or remove the item by selecting commands from the List window Edit menu menu.
You can also click+drag to move items within the window:
- to select several contiguous items:
click+drag to select additional items to the right or the left of the original selection
- to select several items randomly:
Control+click to add or subtract from the selected group
- to move the selected items:
re-click on one of the selected items, hold and drag it to the new location
To format an item:
Select the item's label at the top of the List window or one of its values from the listing, then select Prop > Signal Props (List window). The resulting Modify Signal Properties dialog box allows you to set the item's label, label width, triggering, and radix.
The Modify Signal Properties dialog box includes these options:
- Signal
Shows the full pathname of the selected signal.
- Label
Specifies the label that appears at the top of the List window column.
- Radix
Specifies the radix (base) in which the item value is expressed. The default radix is symbolic, which means that for an enumerated type, the List window lists the actual values of the enumerated type of that item. You can change the default radix for the current simulation using either Options > Simulation (Main window) or the radix command. You can change the default radix permanently by editing the DefaultRadix variable in the modelsim.ini file.
For the other radixes - binary, octal, decimal, unsigned, hexadecimal, or ASCII - the item value is converted to an appropriate representation in that radix. In the system initialization file, modelsim.tcl, you can specify the list translation rules for arrays of enumerated types for binary, octal, decimal, unsigned decimal, or hexadecimal item values in the design unit.
- Width
Allows you to specify the desired width of the column used to list the item value. The default is an approximation of the width of the current value.
- Trigger: Triggers line
Specifies that a change in the value of the selected item causes a new line to be displayed in the List window.
- Trigger: Does not trigger line
Specifies that a change in the value of the selected item does not affect the List window.
The trigger specification affects the trigger property of the selected item. See also, "Setting List window display properties" .
