Change the default values for UserObject popup menu

Hi all,

I'm trying to automate the process of creating userObjects and I want to automatically set all the values for the popup menu. Name, NickName and Description will be set to Component.Name, Component.NickName and Component.Description however it is not the case for the rest of the fields. Showed in red in the image below.

Where can I change the default values for these fields? I tried to set Component.Category, Component.SubCategory, and Exposure but it doesn't change the default values.

Ideally I like not to see this window and just save the component as a userObject. For now I'm using GH_ComponentServer.NewUserObject which opens the dialog window.

Thanks,

Mostapha

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 18, 2014 at 1:13pm

Try something like this:

Dim uo As New GH_UserObject()

uo.Icon = ....
uo.Exposure = ....
uo.BaseGuid = obj.ComponentGuid

uo.Description.Name = ....

uo.Description.Category = ....

....

uo.CreateDefaultPath(True)
uo.SetDataFromObject(obj)

uo.SaveToFile()

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on January 18, 2014 at 3:30pm

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on January 18, 2014 at 3:41pm

One more quick question.

How can I access the list of the components in a Grasshopper tab, and then access the objects. I want to check the name and the message of the object before overwriting them.

Thanks again,

Mostapha

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on January 20, 2014 at 6:29pm

In case someone has the same question gh.GH_UserObject(filepath) does the job for the userObjects.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on January 6, 2016 at 7:20am

Hi guys, I was just doing the same thing and it seems to work. One thing though, if I set the uo.Path property the ribbon does not update once the user object has been saved to file. The ribbon updates as expected with uo.CreateDefaultPath(True) and no uo.Path set. Any ideas?

Attached both cases (with a GHPython component making a user objects of itself).

Thanks and best..

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on January 6, 2016 at 7:27am

Hi Anders, Have you tried Grasshopper.Kernel.GH_ComponentServer.UpdateRibbonUI()? This should force updating the ribbon.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on January 6, 2016 at 7:45am

Thanks Mostapha, I hadn't tried that one yet (still digging around the GH SDK :). Afraid it doesn't seem to do much, at least how I'm calling it (see attached). If I unload/reload Grasshopper the created user object loads ok. So I wonder if there might be some other method I need to call or some property I haven't set correctly.

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