Suggestion for a transparent background for improving interface in GH.

Hi,

Though i am an amateur user, I am sure most of us have always been confounded by the fact that there are two windows to juggle with rhino and gh.

I was just thinking if it were possible to develop a transparent background or a gradient for the GH window. That way we can click and manipulate the GH window while we are working on it and click and zoom-in / zoom-out, pan on the Rhino window without having to minimize the window. (try seeing the two attached images below to understand)

Another idea was that just like rhino-viewport windows we should be able to have a "single-click-maximisation - minimisation" option for the sizing up the GH window.

I look forward to understanding why this is not-possible :D

regards,

shehzad irani

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Sylvain Usai on February 27, 2014 at 8:42am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/changing-canvas-grid-colo...

Permalink Reply by shehzad irani on April 9, 2014 at 5:33am

Hey Sylvian

I saw David's script, but i am not sure how to go about using it.. any pointers? I tried changing the values in the gui file but still no transparent background..

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 9, 2014 at 10:25am

You cannot have a transparent background on a window that shows the pixels underneath that window. The script I posted will only change the transparency of the background fill layer, meaning that you can see the previous canvas pixels. This is not what you (or indeed anyone) wants.

I can't help but feel that what-it-should-be.jpg represents hell on Earth. The amount of clutter on the screen is --for me-- beyond reason. I find it very hard to tell the difference between pixels that have meaning within Grasshopper and pixels that have meaning within Rhino.

If I have to work on a single screen, I typically put Rhino along the left half of the desktop and GH along the right half. While in the office I have two monitors and I can put both windows on their own screen.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by huaxiamengqing on July 25, 2014 at 2:28am