Grasshopper 1.0 Beta 1 available for download

Hey everyone,

due to popular demand we've decided to release a few more versions of Grasshopper 1.0 for Rhino5. You can download the installer from the usual location.

A while ago it was agreed that once the Remote Control Panel is back we'd stop feature development for Grasshopper 1.0 and begin working on Grasshopper 2.0 instead. That moment has now arrived. There will probably still be some bugs that need looking into, but there will be no more new features.

Today's release is versioned as 0.9.0065, but you can think of it as Grasshopper 1.0, Beta 1.

New features:

The Remote Control panel is back. You can show it from the Grasshopper View menu.
Expression components with no inputs will now output the expression as text instead of failing.

Fixes:

It could take a long time to show object context menus if there were many warnings/errors, this is fixed.
Clusters without any objects other than input and output hooks would crash when the tooltip was shown, this is fixed.
Plugging a cluster input directly into a cluster output would result in lockdown, this is fixed.
Variable Parameter addition was always shown when there were no input or output parameters, this is fixed.
Project Along used a one-degree angle tolerance which was too loose. This is now 0.01 degrees.
The Addition component would not allow the renaming of input parameters, this is fixed.
3rd party GHA files with incorrect GUID notation in the assembly info would prevent saving, this is fixed.

The remote panel supports Sliders, Toggles, Buttons and Text Panels, and has labels and separators for layout and markup. You can publish sliders etc. to the Remote Panel via the context menus.

To show the Remote Panel, use the Grasshopper View menu:

Every GH file carries a single RCP layout, which is empty by default:

You can create a new layout by publishing objects to the remote panel:

Publishing objects always puts them in the bottom-most panel group:

You can switch into Edit Mode (the green pencil) to re-order items, delete them (by dragging them far away), insert new groups, rename groups, assign colours to groups and insert labels and separators:

Object deletion is not yet handled, so if a slider has been published to the remote panel and then gets deleted, the published proxy isn't automatically removed and behaves in an odd way.

Happy Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa,

David

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Vanegas on December 19, 2013 at 9:31am

que buen regalo para navidad, muchas gracias david

Permalink Reply by Christian Schmidts on December 19, 2013 at 9:43am

congratulations for reaching this milestone - like my former professor used to say to express even a high level of excitement:

"I think this is remarkable"

and of course happy holidays!

Permalink Reply by Ben Howes on December 19, 2013 at 12:30pm

YES!!! I've been missing that remote control for years.

Thanks David!

Permalink Reply by taz on December 19, 2013 at 12:35pm

Thanks David!

Happy Festivus to ya' and best of luck with all that 2014 brings.

-taz

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on December 19, 2013 at 12:56pm

Thanks very much David!

RCP is a great idea!

I'm not sure if I should open a discussion, but...about this new version,

Is it me or Ribbon Layout Editor has changed from v0.900014?

I'm trying to customize it in order to simplify all the plug-ins but it doesn't let me do it as I was used to.

besides, when I pick one group and put it below, it says there are no items on it

happy Christmas-Hanukkah-everything

Pablo

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 19, 2013 at 1:34pm

The layout editor shouldn't have changed. Maybe it got broken?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on December 20, 2013 at 4:30am

I don't know, I've tried re-installing it several times but it's still not working

my older layouts don't work anymore, apparently there's nothing on them

Permalink Reply by Christian Schmidts on December 20, 2013 at 2:01pm

looks like something has occurred to it.

same for me, can't save and load layouts and some of the dragging doesn't work properly.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 20, 2013 at 3:07pm

Sigh.... all right. I'll see if I can find what's wrong.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 20, 2013 at 3:43pm

Yeah I found the bug. Apparently it got broken when the GH_IO database was made case-sensitive. I have no recollection of changing it from case-insensitive to case-sensitive, so that may have been an unintentional change, however I'm not aware of any problems other than this one that were caused by it.

The next release will have functioning custom ribbon layout again.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Christian Schmidts on December 20, 2013 at 4:17pm

"The next release will have functioning custom ribbon layout again."

I expected that. :)

Permalink Reply by Msahli zouhir on December 19, 2013 at 2:30pm