Pull text from the name of a container

Hello all,

I am wondering if it is possible to pull the text from a component that I have custom named. I am labeling point containers in grasshopper to keep them organized, but I am having trouble keeping their names organized in the output of my script. When I put the text into a panel and tag all the points, the names are all rearranged in rhino. Does anyone know how I could fix this. If I could pull text directly from the container I believe it will organize correctly.

Thank you for your time,

Sam

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 6, 2014 at 12:35am

Hi sam

i cannot help with the naming but it sounds like the orders are probably getting mixed up because of different data braches. If you can post an example it might be easy to rectify.

Permalink Reply by Will Pearson on May 6, 2014 at 3:53am

Here's one way of doing this...

The attached script takes the first input parameter and gets all the sources (i.e. the parameters connected to it). For each of these source parameters the nickname (the user changeable name) is found and appended to a list once for each item of data stored within that particular source parameter.

As such, it only works with lists, however with a little jiggery-pokery you could adapt it for trees.

Permalink Reply by Will Pearson on May 6, 2014 at 3:57am

I spotted a potential bug in the script – it was taking the first parameter, not the first input parameter. Updated definition attached.

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2014-05-06-get-names.gh, 7 KB

Permalink Reply by Will Pearson on May 6, 2014 at 5:09am

Couldn't quite shake the feeling that there was a better way of doing this... I just found this post by David: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/xn/detail/2985220:Comment:810052

I've attached an updated script that now handles both tree structures and lists.

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