Any way to put a Grasshopper Panel() with text in the canvas by vb code?

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Permalink Reply by Elco on June 24, 2013 at 4:08am

Hi, 

Perhaps you could save your solution as a .ghx file and then insert it as xml ? either through a second grasshopperscript or seperate rhino plugin that opens and writes the file ? 

kind regards,

Elco

Permalink Reply by Florent MICHEL on June 24, 2013 at 4:56am

Hi,

Actually there is a way to integrate a GH_Panel but it's probably not what you need in this case.

I think what you need it's override your component's display (Attributes) and display your text.

You can also write your text in the balloon as warning or errors, probably the best if it's for input format.
this.AddRuntimeMessage(GH_RuntimeMessageLevel.Error, "Your text");

Florent

Permalink Reply by Florent MICHEL on June 24, 2013 at 5:39am

Well you can do it like this : document.AddObject(new GH_Panel())

But it will be a bit complex to manage everything, like position and also far from the basic rules of grasshopper.

It would be much simpler to have a string output with your text and connect it to a panel.

Permalink Reply by Florent MICHEL on June 24, 2013 at 7:15am

to add text I think you can try:

  panel.SetUserText("your text")

position :
            panel.Attributes.Pivot = new PointF("xPosition,yPosition");

I don't understand why you can't have a output for format errors and another for your merge result?

Permalink Reply by Florent MICHEL on June 24, 2013 at 7:35am

Sorry, I'm not sure of your last request?

Dim doc As GH_Document

doc = Grasshopper.Instances.ActiveCanvas.Document

Special.GH_Panel panel =New Special.GH_Panel()

doc.AddObject(panel , True)

panel.SetUserText("your text")

panel.Attributes.Pivot = new PointF(this.Attributes.Pivot);

And if you can determinate the format and give it to the user, why not just force it and dont ask to the user to do it?