RhinoCommonSDK as a publicly editable wiki?

Hello everybody,

This is my first post here. First off, thanks to everyone working on Grasshopper and all of its components. Developers, users... you should all be in the history books for your contribution to architecture!

Okay, so now for the discussion.

I always appreciated the programmers' reference for Rhinoscript because of its comprehensive attention to summary descriptions, syntax, examples, etc. However now in "grasshopper world", I am a part of the Rhino community pretty lost within the documentation, especially with the new version. I do however appreciate the online format for the new SDK programmers reference.

http://www.rhino3d.com/5/rhinocommon/

I am making an uninformed guess that the lack of information is due to migrating from the previous SDK, and a lack of human resources. Although I have no idea!

I guess this is an public proposition to the developers to "fill in the blanks" so to say, but by using a public platform, such as starting a wiki or a content-management system. This way the community could fill in summaries, syntax suggestions, and even upload code examples as they discover them.

Perhaps this would be a better way to learn scripting than using the current discussion board?

- Faiyaz

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Victor Leung on May 6, 2011 at 6:40pm

Hi Faiyaz,

I have a similar thought that it is perhaps easier if a Wiki style site could be setup to explain components or basic scripting to new comers. At least a few lines of text containing experience from previous attempts will be very helpful when using a component for the first time.

There is a relevant post some time ago and I believe the discussion should not be ended so brutally without coming to any consensus.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/grasshopper-changes-so-mu...

The debate between a primer and a wiki is not a contradicting one when MediaWiki is easy to setup or Wikia which is setup-free. I'm largely supportive in getting a wiki running because I believe not many people might have the time to contribute on large essays or tutorials, even when they have good souls to do so. But editing a page (much faster) and leaving some experience to share would be much encouraging for them.

Cheers

Victor

Permalink Reply by Steve Baer on May 6, 2011 at 8:47pm

Hi Faiyaz,

There is an editable wiki for RhinoCommon at

http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/rhinocommon

If you want to create or edit pages on this wiki let me know and I'll set up an account for you.

I would also like to point out that RhinoCommon is open source

https://github.com/mcneel/rhinocommon

and you are more than welcome to add comments to any of the functions in the SDK. If this is something you (or anyone) wants to do, then please let me know and I'll try to figure out the the best way for you to contribute. All of the SDK documentation is generated from comments in this source code so your additions would also show up at http://www.rhino3d.com/5/rhinocommon/

If you have wishes or bugs that you would like to file for RhinoCommon, you can start an issue at

https://github.com/mcneel/rhinocommon/issues

Thanks,

-Steve

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