type component input after double click on canvas

Hi everyone (and David especially :) ),

I'd like to be able to instantiate a component with assigned valued in one or more of his inputs as one can do with panels, operators and sliders.

When you double click on the canvas you type '//' as shortcut for panel and what you write next is automatically populating the instance of that panel.

How can one replicate it?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 3, 2016 at 11:31am

You can't add any special codes (like // or " or date/time notation) as those are all handled internally by the search window. You can however make your object initialization aware. If your object (component or whatever) implements the IGH_InitCodeAware interface you will have to add a method called SetInitCode(string) which will be called after the constuctor and you'll get whatever came after the equals symbol. Thus, if the user double clicks and types 'YourComponent = 4, true, 99%' then the string passed to SetInitCode will be " 4, true, 99%". You'll be in charge of parsing and interpreting it.

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Greco on July 3, 2016 at 1:29pm