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Brett Ian Balogh replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"I bet! :)"

Mar 28

David Rutten replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

" should do the same. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Mar 27

Chris Tietjen replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"Oh, I should have said that David is the best comprehensive source of formatting rules ;)."

Mar 27

David Rutten replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"If you want to add a curly bracket into a formatted string, make it a double one: -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Mar 27

Chris Tietjen replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"I've never found a single comprehensive source for formatting rules. This is just basic string combining with the observation that the curly brackets are special characters and have to be placed into the component through variables. "

Mar 26

Brett Ian Balogh replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"Nice! Ok, but I don't know where to look to understand the available syntax to make these wonderful expressions. Is this a straight .net thing? I'm not googling the right thing.."

Mar 26

Chris Tietjen replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"Here's another way to do it."

Mar 26

Brett Ian Balogh replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"Awesome, that works! When I looked at the msdn reference, I thought I could only use {} to insert values into the string. So ampersands work too??? Can you point me to documentation of this? Thanks very much!! ~BB~"

Mar 26

Pieter Segeren replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion String Formatting

"Hi Brett , hope I understood you correctly:"{"&R&","&G&","&B&"}""

Mar 26

Brett Ian Balogh posted a discussion

String Formatting

First off, let me say how much I love the string/number formatting components in grasshopper 9.0014. I have gotten a lot of use out of them, but the lack of detailed explanations or reference makes it a pain to use sometimes. I recently found this great post:http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/formatting-numbers-in-grasshopperwhich points to the msdn .net framework standard numeric…See More

Mar 26

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machinehistories replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion Normal Flipping in Grasshopper

"I just had this same problem. I tried flip, evaluate, you name it and even when I would get the vectors displayed properly, the surfaces would still offset in different directions. What worked for me was to input the surfaces into an explode…"

Oct 27, 2012

Brett Ian Balogh replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion Serial Port Programming in Python

"ha, yes, patch cords=wires/definition connections! sorry, that's max/msp talk. and no, that's plenty of ways. i was just curious whether or not there's a preferred way to share objects. the dict method is working for now, so i'll…"

Jul 4, 2012

Giulio Piacentino replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion Serial Port Programming in Python

"Are "Patch cords" Grasshopper definition connections? If so, yes they are a way.Also any external module variable that contains a collection would be a way, of which the sticky dictionary is an implementation. Also an external class field…"

Jul 4, 2012

Brett Ian Balogh replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion Serial Port Programming in Python

"*Correction* It appears that the port is successfully used by another component by using the sticky dict method. The reason for the errors was the locked-up port which is still an issue. In any case, is this the only way to pass global variables or…"

Jul 3, 2012

Brett Ian Balogh posted a discussion

Serial Port Programming in Python

Hi Folks,I'm trying to program a serial protocol using the ghpython script component inside grasshopper. i am relatively new to python scripting in the context of grasshopper, so i have a few questions. but first allow me to explain what i'm trying to do: i have a serial device i want to talk to, but i have to do it using some sort of handshaking. for instance, when i send a command/data, i need to wait for an appropriate response before sending another. i have used andy payne's general serial…See More

Jul 3, 2012

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David Rutten replied to Brett Ian Balogh's discussion Grasshopper VB Component Path and Item Access

"Didn't test this at all... -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Mar 15, 2012