wish: zoom selected and workspace partitions

I don't know why there are so much wish discussion lately. So I take the opportunity to make mine...

1) Would it be possible to select an object in grasshopper and some how recenter the view on the preview-object in rhino space? Sometime it is useful when you try to debug somebody else definition.

2) Would it be possible to divide the workspace in 2 or more windows? I used to gather all my parameters at the start and some definitions are huge so I have to pan/scroll a lot. We also could see an other benefits, in the case of connecting 2 methods which are far from each other dragging a line from one windows to the others one or just moving/copying some methods...

Does it make sense to anybody else than me?

Cheers,

Minh

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Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on August 17, 2010 at 10:40am

on #2 - kind of like how you can split the window in Xcel? that's a good idea.

In a class I took that Rajaa led, she used receivers a lot and instead of the complete definition running left to right, she had the definition broken down into small segments of the definition, and used the receivers to keep the definition in an top to bottom fashion.

I thought that was a really good idea.

Permalink Reply by Minh on August 18, 2010 at 4:50am

Hey Ryles,

I do use receiver already, they are great. But you can't do it for slider, I have a pool of sliders which are gathered at the begining of the definition

Permalink Reply by Shawn Fernandez on August 18, 2010 at 8:35am

You can always connect the slider to a Generic or Number element and then connect the radio to that.

Permalink Reply by Minh on August 18, 2010 at 8:41am

Well, sure, it is what I do already. It is not impossible to connect or to move in the space. It would be great if you can just drag from a windows to an other one for connecting or moving elements.

It would be like a shortcut...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 18, 2010 at 1:02pm

I love the idea, sounds tricky though. Especially the dragging from A to B... I'll see what I can come up with, no promises.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Minh on August 18, 2010 at 1:27pm

Cool...

What about the other point?

1) Would it be possible to select an object in grasshopper and some how recenter the view on the preview-object in rhino space? Sometime it is useful when you try to debug somebody else definition.

Do you think it is feasable too?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 18, 2010 at 2:01pm

That should be fairly easy.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 18, 2010 at 2:18pm

Done. Will be available in the next release.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Minh on August 18, 2010 at 2:22pm

Thanks David.

That will be very helpfull!

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on August 19, 2010 at 5:44am

nice, thanks David!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 19, 2010 at 6:01am

The option will be available here and on the menu:

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Alpha222 on August 19, 2010 at 8:26am

Hi David, this feture is really great!! Could you make it better ?
I mean a left-click action zooms only one window ,while a right-click one zooms all windows~~