Script node: including code ?

Hi,

I have gotten into the habit of writing my own classes, but I am too lazy/intimidated to compile my own nodes (mostly b/c of the write/compile cycle).

But writing extensive code in a script node is not too bright either.

Is there a middle ground ? Can I for instance include code from disk in a script node ?

Or is there a way to write a plugin an not have to restart rhino/GH every time you want to test it ?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 1, 2013 at 7:06am

Hi Sander,

it seems that Visual Studio 2013 supports edit-and-continue, you might want to try that.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/06/26/debuggin...

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Sander Boer on December 1, 2013 at 7:35am

Hi David,

Yes, I found that thread just now, installed VS2013 Express , whopping 5Gb ....

And. Another. Reboot. (#673) Dev on windows is just so painful... and I use emacs. daily.

Also found that C# does not allow for include statements, did not know that.

Reason I ask, is b/c I wrote some nifty stuff for Unity in C# and it was glorious. Mono-develop, write-execute cycle was seamless. Maybe that's why I never grew out of script-kiddie mode.

Permalink Reply by Sander Boer on December 1, 2013 at 8:28am

VS crashed twice on a hello world example. no mas.

I observed:

- edit and continue seems to work on 32bit solutions, not 64(which is advertised by ms). Can live with that.

- Grasshopper solutions do not update with 'fresh' code, the custom node needs to be re-inserted. This allows for old and new code to exist in the same gh def. Cannot imagine this helps stability. It *is* a lot to ask for a plugin to a plugin to update 'in situ'.

- VS crashes easily, disappears, leaving debris on disk. Win7 stays alive though, impressed.

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