Ambiguous reference to Point3D

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 1, 2013 at 10:27am

Point3D is a RhinoCommon type, not a Grasshopper type. Unfortunately I do not see a solution as you cannot change the method signature. I'm afraid you're out of luck.

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David Rutten

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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 1, 2013 at 10:29am

Well, not entirely out of luck, there are two ways forward:

1. Switch to VisualStudio and create a GHA project instead of using C# Script component.
2. Write a wrapper dll for OpenStudio which exposes the methods you need in non-colliding names (this is a lot of work that doesn't seem to add much value, definitely try #1 first).

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Alan Jackson on March 1, 2013 at 12:40pm

I will give #1 a try. Hopefully this is the solution I am looking for as not being able to reference OpenStudio libraries would be very disappointing.

Thanks for the prompt response!

Permalink Reply by Alan Jackson on March 1, 2013 at 12:38pm

What is preventing the non-editable boiler plate code from referencing Rhino.Geometry.Point3d instead of Point3D?

The reason I ask is that this is essential a syntax issue, not a technical one, unless I am not understanding.

Thanks again.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 1, 2013 at 12:59pm

It is indeed a syntax issue, the algorithm which creates the non-editable part of the source simply uses "Point3d" as a string instead of "Rhino.Geometry.Point3d". It knows that Rhino.Geometry is an imported namespace and it didn't occur to me that there could be naming conflicts for the types in the RunScript signature.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on March 1, 2013 at 1:12pm

Why don't just simply input the point as object, or GeometryBase and then Cast it to Rhino.Geometry.Point3d:

private void RunScript(object pt, ref object os3DVector)

{

if(pt.GetType().Name != "Point3d"){

    owner.AddRuntimeMessage(GH_RuntimeMessageLevel.Warning, "The input pt has to be of type Point3d");

    return;

}

Rhino.Geometry.Point3d pnt = (Rhino.Geometry.Point3d) pnt;

OpenStudio.Point3dVector points = new OpenStudio.Point3dVector();

points.Add(pnt);

}

Hope this works.

Cheers FF

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on March 1, 2013 at 1:22pm

aww...you can't do point.Add(pnt)....

you might do:

point.Add(new OpenStudio.Point3d(who knows?));

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 1, 2013 at 2:55pm

Clever, that should indeed work. I think using the typeof or is keywords though is preferable to GetType().Name equality tests.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia