domain box expression

hi community!

As this is my first post, I hope not to ask a too stupid question(s).

Is there a reason I dont understand, that you can not make an expression in the domain box component? In the center box component you can. I really wonder why and I didn't find answers by searching the discussion, thats why I ask.

Thanks in advance,

max

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 14, 2012 at 3:04am

Hi Max,

domain box uses domains, which are not supported in the expression language. Center Box uses numbers, which are. Number parameters can always have expressions, Domain parameters can never have expressions.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by maxmelone on November 14, 2012 at 6:53am

Hi David,

thanks for your answer. I'm glad that answer isn't too obvious.

Is there a possibility to make a center box (with the basepoint at the bottom center) without the work around of using the "-a/2, b/2" domain component?

regards,

max

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on November 14, 2012 at 9:44am

I wouldn't call that a work around, that's the direct way of achieving it. I don't think it's a good idea to add yet another box component but it would be nice if expressions could support domains. It could use the word "to" if you want to operate individually on start and end values, like in the text panel component.

Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on November 14, 2012 at 3:46pm

Hi,

As Vicente says, it is not a workaround. So I fixed a Symmetric Domain user object which takes a mid value and a length. I really felt it was missing, as well as a Domain Length component.

located in Maths / Domain / section 3

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