Change gh object display color

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 14, 2011 at 3:52am

Hi raf,

 

preview colours are stored as document properties on the Grasshopper.Kernel.GH_Document class. There's both shared properties and instance properties:

 

GH_Document.DefaultPreviewColour = ...

GH_Document.DefaultPreviewColourSelected = ...

 

change the colours that are assigned to new documents, but they won't affect existing documents.

 

Dim doc As GH_Document = ...

doc.PreviewColour = ...

doc.PreviewColourSelected = ...

 

These two properties change the colours of an existing document.

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by raf2205 on October 14, 2011 at 3:20pm

Hi David, actually I am looking for a way to custom defined object display color. Like Custom preview component.

Thanks,

raf

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 15, 2011 at 1:42am

Well, in that case you have to hijack the drawing routines for your object. This is only possible if it is indeed your object.

 

If you derive from GH_Component (like Custom Preview does), then override the functions DrawViewportWires() and DrawViewportMeshes().

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia