VB for Rhino documentation

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on March 13, 2012 at 5:38am

First of all: Rhino.Net is outdated. The current VB components use RhinoCommon.

Then, if I get you right, you are looking for Tutorials or Examples, not documentation. There's a whole section on this forum you can browse and you can find some here

Permalink Reply by ph on March 13, 2012 at 5:56am

Hi Hannes,

thanks for your reply!

I'm currently using an older version of Grasshopper (0.6.0055), since I'm stuck with Rhino 4 SR5...

Also, I think I'm really looking for documentation...  something like a complete catalog of available methods, etc. - but in VB syntax that works inside the script.

For now I'm always looking for examples, right, but sometimes end up not finding what I need...

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on March 13, 2012 at 6:08am

The Rhino.NET SDK helpfile has code examples for C# and VB at the member level. Obviously the documentation is a basic sorted list what's in Rhino.NET, not like a "how to get started..." So it's hard to find examples if you don't know where to look.

Rhino.NET is like Rhino in code. So if you know what to do in Rhino, it's a matter of searching for what looks/sounds similar to the Rhino command or object type.

Here's a load of examles to get you started with Rhino.NET if you don't know this already.

Permalink Reply by ph on March 13, 2012 at 7:35am

Hi Hannes,

I can't find any code examples in the .net sdk...  could you point me at where to find it?

All I get there is this sort of syntax:

Public Function CompareTo(ByRef other As IOn2dVector) As Integer

Thanks also for the other links!

Philipp

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on March 13, 2012 at 1:29pm

Well, that's basically all you need to know, if you are going to use a function.

You know its part if an interface(or class definition) and it returns an Integer, so you'd call it like:


Dim vec As New On2dVector(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)
Dim compareResult As Integer
compareResult = vec.CompareTo(otherVector)


While I admit, the documentation could be a little more elaborate on what each function does, the class names and methods are pretty self explaining if you know your way around Rhino and have a little experience with VB.

I suggest using the VB Express Editor to prewrite code. The editor can show tooltips with basically all the info there is in the help while you write and does additional synthax checks. You can then copy the code over to GH and run it.

 

Permalink Reply by ph on March 15, 2012 at 5:41am

Hi Hannes,

thanks for your help!

I am trying out the Express Editor, and also getting on better with the .Net documentation.

Philipp