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David Rutten replied to Steven Chick's discussion Custom Parameters in VB components

"The biggest problem is that any individual attribute can only have a maximum of one input and one output. Components solve this by actually being a conglomerate of attributes. You could use the same trick, but it would involve a lot of coding. If…"

Dec 15, 2011

Steven Chick joined Jonatan Schumacher's group

PAE-Lab

This is the group for Stevens PAE alumni and friends. we are here to show and share our work with the Grasshopper Community. As part of our course work, we are creating a number of open-source software interoperability tools including Gerilla, which links to EnergyPlus, and openEco, which links to Ecotect. If you are interested to contribute in the development and testing, please reach out to us.See More

Dec 14, 2011

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Steven Chick replied to Steven Chick's discussion Custom Parameters in VB components

"Attached is the component I have thus far. If I understand you correctly then having a string output, in addition to the boolean output already defined in the program, is not possible unless I derive the class from GH_Component."

Dec 14, 2011

David Rutten replied to Steven Chick's discussion Custom Parameters in VB components

"Ok so what you have is a class that derives from GH_Param(Of GH_Boolean) which provides it's own attributes. So as long as you keep this object as a stand-alone it will work. But once you put the object into a component as an input or output,…"

Dec 14, 2011

Steven Chick replied to Steven Chick's discussion Custom Parameters in VB components

"Sorry I didn't mean to be so vague. I have currently developed a component with only one output, a GH_Boolean which responds to a double click on the component and proceeds to open an external program if there are no instances of that program…"

Dec 14, 2011

David Rutten replied to Steven Chick's discussion Custom Parameters in VB components

""I would like to add more than one input utilizing mouse clicks on a component" I don't understand what this means. Please elaborate. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Dec 14, 2011

Steven Chick posted a discussion

Custom Parameters in VB components

I have been messing around with custom parameters over the past couple days and I seem to have run into a limitation I cant pass. I would like to add more than one input utilizing mouse clicks on a component. The problem I have is when I attempt to inherit more than one type of GH_Param at the begining of my class. Is it not possible to add additional inputs or am I approaching the problem the wrong way?-SteveSee More

Dec 13, 2011

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Steven Chick is now a member of Grasshopper

Dec 11, 2011

Welcome Them!