combining lists

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 29, 2013 at 3:13am

The panel at the top contains a single Item consisting of 4 elements.

The middle panel has a single item, a point

The bottom panel has 3 items, each a number.

When you say you want to combine them do you want each "element" to be a single Item or a single item for ALL elements. See Below

0. 20

1. 30

2. 59

3. 60

4. {9,45,29}

5. 0.0

6. 3.0

7. 6.0

Or 

0. 20 30 59 60 {9,45,29} 0.0 3.0 6.0

Permalink Reply by Stavros Gargaretas on October 29, 2013 at 3:38am

Hey Danny 

I managed it by using this thread below 

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/wish-tags-to-handle-multiple

and just using a VB script to collect and inputs into 1 ITEM

As I wanted to Text tag a Point with certain information (see below) I wanted all the input streams to form 1 ITEM in the end. So it is like you show in the first option (above), but as one ITEM with Several Elements

 

Is that kind of Clear? Is there a better way to do it (instead of the VB script?)

Thanks for your response,

Stavros 

Permalink Reply by Furion Huang on October 29, 2013 at 3:38am

As the panels show each data has different structure so that you have to deal with them before you combining them. In your case you can simply [Flatten] all of them first. Then the [Merge] component will do the job.

Permalink Reply by Stavros Gargaretas on October 29, 2013 at 3:43am

Thanks Furion,

I tried that before. The problem with that is that when you 3D text tag the list after merged it overlays the list items when displayed. Thats why combining them in one ITEM (VB script) was needed after the merge (see above)

Thanks for the response eitherway,

Stavros 

Permalink Reply by Furion Huang on October 29, 2013 at 3:52am

Hmmm, I guess that's because the text tag component wants a multi-line string input while the merge output is a list of single line data. Yea that will make the text tag show everything in the list at the same spot.

So, you can use [Join string] component and connect the join character with a panel containing just an enter. Should work. See also here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/start-a-new-line-using-te...

Permalink Reply by Stavros Gargaretas on October 29, 2013 at 4:00am

Ah nice. 

Also works, and is must simpler. 

(by the way - join string is now called text join?

Thanks. 

Permalink Reply by Furion Huang on October 29, 2013 at 4:03am

yes!

Permalink Reply by Stavros Gargaretas on October 29, 2013 at 4:03am

Awesome,

Thanks!