Disentangled behind my back ?

It seems that my clusters have become disentangled without me using the "disentangle" option.

As a matter of fact, I didn't even know about this option 5 minutes ago, and I used to copy/paste a cluster's components back to the canvas to make an independant cluster.

Yet, something I have done has caused my clusters to become independant, and that's pretty nasty because any change I want to do in a cluster "family", I need to do it to every instance now.

Also, I think it would be useful to highlight all instances of a particular cluster in a definition, perhaps as a right-click option.

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Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 8, 2017 at 7:50am

Hello ?

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 8, 2017 at 8:14am

Hello. You didn't post any code, we weren't watching what you did and haven't experienced the same problem.

Good idea "to highlight all instances of a particular cluster in a definition". In general, the inability to search Grasshopper files (like all files in a folder!) is a major deficiency compared to traditional programming practices.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 8, 2017 at 8:17am

Yet, something I have done has caused my clusters to become independant [...]

Could be. There's probably bugs. But "something" is too vague for me to do much about it. At this point all I can do is start looking at all the code involving clusters and trying to imagine what might go wrong with each instruction. I already did that when I wrote it and clearly missed something, so I don't fancy my chances.

Can you narrow it down in any way? Are these clusters made from files? Are they made 'in-place'? Were the disentangled clusters copy-pasted at any point? Exported to gh files?

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 8, 2017 at 8:30am

Hi David,

The clusters in my file were all made from components that were hanging around in the definition already.

I copied some clusters, then occasionnaly edited and saved the edits in some instances.

Somehow, some instances became "independant" from the others ; I just have no idea why.

This wouldn't be so bad if there was an easy visual way to identify entangled instances.

You might want to consider this for GH 2

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 8, 2017 at 8:37am

This wouldn't be so bad if there was an easy visual way to identify entangled instances.

The tooltip per cluster does mention with how many other clusters it is entangled, but indeed you cannot see which ones. Some sort of faint visual overlay is probably a good idea.

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 8, 2017 at 10:25am

I would vote for the following : selecting a cluster would make the canvas look like in the "Find" mode, except that only the cluster instances entangled with the selected one would get circled :