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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

How do I capture commands generated when using quartus gui

What I want to do is create command line scripts to perform a set of functions that I do using the quartus GUI. I would like to capture the commands being executed through the GUI and use that inf...
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9 years ago

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But I think that seeing what the GUI does via a command trace is a shortcut as well as a learning aid to being able to write scripts.

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To determine the Tcl command without reading the documentation (to try and figure out what the command might be), I change a project setting using the GUI, and then I export the project to a Tcl script (Project->Generate Tcl file for Project).

Once I know what the command is, then I might read the manual ...

Cheers,

Dave