Galapagos and threading

Hello all,

I have written a component that spawns a new thread for heavy calculations since I did not want to lock up the GH UI until the calculations complete.

However, this workflow introduces some problems in connection with Galapagos. Since Grasshopper keeps solving the solutions downwards Galapagos immediately evaluates the output without waiting for the heavy calculation to complete.

Is there a good way to make Galapagos wait until the thread is completed?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 2, 2013 at 4:05pm

No.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Arend on August 3, 2013 at 3:12am

Keep the threading inside a component, and only give back a solution once the thread is finished. This can allow you to do multithreading, and keep the peace with the grasshopper way of things.

A different approach would be to write your own genetic algorithm.

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