Wish or Q: ON/OFF switch

I wish for an ON/OFF toggle switch that basically lets data pass through or
not.

With a double click (or drag) to Toggle feature.

It would be great for setups with multiple threads or trees or whatever they
are called.
As I have multiple objects doing multiple things so when I alter the objects the
entire system comes to a holt before the calculation is done, so I need a "pause" feature.

Right now I solve this by having two documents open in Grasshopper and
switch between them to deactivate grasshoppers calculations while I do the
adjustments.

So a toggle to pass data through or not, or an ON/OFF toggle for the entire Definition
or only for the subDefinition would be great.

-Jørgen

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 18, 2009 at 5:19am

I think there are developments under way to have toggles built into components that you can disable and effectively stop a chosen path but in the mean time try this method using the Cull Pattern Component and a Boolean Toggle.

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 18, 2009 at 7:16am

Check out the enable/disable solver button (or solution > disable solver) in the newest version.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 18, 2009 at 7:32am

Only problem with that solution is it is all or nothing not 'subDefinition'

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 18, 2009 at 2:29pm

Yeah, that's right.

It would be nice to select a group of components, right-click and disable/enable solver for the bunch.

Permalink Reply by J Short on September 18, 2009 at 2:44pm

Similarly, for now, you could also use a series of sliders (set 0-1) to represent the ON/OFF options, with each "switch" tied to a Filter component.

Permalink Reply by Vittorio Menna on September 19, 2009 at 6:08am

or u can use a dispatch component...

Permalink Reply by Danniely Staback on June 1, 2013 at 11:28am

I have the same problem... I guess you could try to save a copy of your definition and try experimenting with creating clusters that you can easily enable/disable. It should be a pretty convenient way to approach separate sections of your algorithm. Its under the EDIT menu. You can always edit the cluster, but I don't think you can undo it...

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 1, 2013 at 3:34pm

Warning the information in this thread is Ancient!

There is a now a component called Data Dam that will prevent the following components from receiving an update

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on May 10, 2015 at 10:39pm

They don't receive new data but they do indeed receive an update with the old stored data, at least when I connect a Data Dam between a Pipeline that looks for changes in a specified Rhino layer and the rest of my program: