Problems with Ribbon Layout editor

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 26, 2013 at 3:48am

Hi Pablo,

it's a bug. I've fixed it and it will be released as part of 0.9.0066 (or Grasshopper 1.0 Beta 2)

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on December 26, 2013 at 3:55am

Thank you David!

better now, I felt kind of dumb...just will wait for the new release

Permalink Reply by Jose Joaquin Sanchez on January 21, 2014 at 3:31am

I have the 0.9.0066 GH release, yet my Ribbon layout is still not working.  I create a new layout, I try to add it yet nothing changes.  When I try to open and edit that layout again it won't open to edit.  I checked the version release notes and it says ribbons were fixed, so not sure if there is another bug or mine just didn't work.

edit:  I am attempting to edit the layout to have panels for DIVA, Ladybug, and Geco in the same tab, so not sure if maybe its just not possible to combine/edit those like that?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 21, 2014 at 5:27am

Does it say 0.9.0066 on the Grasshopper banner? The release notes are downloaded so they show the most recent ones no matter what version you're actually running.

Also can you upload your layout file so I can test it here?

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by tangminghao on June 19, 2014 at 4:23am

I have the 0.9.0075 GH release, yet my Ribbon layout is still not working. I create a new layout, I try to add it yet nothing changes. When I try to open and edit that layout again it won't open to edit.

some panels are visiable,but some panels are invisiable!

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on June 19, 2014 at 6:16am

That is because Ladybug works with userobjects instead of .gha files...

userobjects won't appear in your new layout (I guess they're only configurated for the default layout) unless you put them in its place...

Permalink Reply by Brian Ringley on July 8, 2014 at 11:18am

Oof yeah I can confirm - you can see in the img below I tried to make a "BldgPerf" tab w/DIVA, Ladybug, Honeybee, and Geco. Because Ladybug and Honeybee are User Object collections they disappear from the ribbon upon relaunching Grasshopper after the initial ribbon creation.

In fact, all user objects disappear - the ones in their native tabs (Bumblebee, FabTools, etc.) AND the ones in new tabs of my creation.

I'm not actually sure of the best way to fix this. Reloading the user objects to the directory doesn't work. I assume a reinstall of Gh would do the trick but I wonder if anyone has another method.

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on July 8, 2014 at 11:55am

Mmm...I'm not sure reinstalling GH would work,

anyway, I don't know how solve this, nor even if it can be done,

maybe in a new release this could be taken into account...

Permalink Reply by Brian Ringley on July 8, 2014 at 12:26pm

Turns out it's an easy fix. Close Rhino/Gh, delete grasshopper_ribbon.xml from C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper, and then relaunch Rhino/Gh. Grasshopper will automatically generate a fresh ribbon XML file in the directory, which looks like this (in case you'd prefer to edit the file rather than delete/regenerate it):

<Fragment name="Settings">
<items count="1">
<item name="LayoutCount" type_name="gh_int32" type_code="3">0</item>
</items>
</Fragment>

I suppose an alternative would be to back up the original ribbon as a *.ghlayout prior to creating a customization so that you have something to which you can revert.

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on July 10, 2014 at 9:28am

oh, I hadn't thought about that possiblity...it looks like it may work

thank you Brian!

Permalink Reply by Blade on October 5, 2018 at 7:26am

I can't customize my layout! Why?? 

I've used Brian solution, but nothing...