vb controlling other software from grasshopper

by Chenqi Jia

Oct 15, 2012

Hi
Is there some way to send and receive data from grasshopper to ex. paint in windows? Make it open a file, add a line then save and close?

Thanks
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    David Rutten

    If you're looking to do some basic bitmap stuff, wouldn't it be much easier to use GDI+ to do it?

    If you want to draw a line in a bitmap, how about the following:

    Dim bmp As New Bitmap("C:\somewhere\blahblah\image.bmp")

    Dim G As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bmp)

    G.DrawLine(Pens.Black, 10, 10, 100, 70)

    bmp.Save("C:\somewhere\blahblah\image.bmp")

    bmp.Dispose()

    G.Dispose()

    Different applications have different APIs, so I can definitely see the point of remoting into Photoshop, but Paint.exe.... 

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    David Rutten

    david@mcneel.com

    Poprad, Slovakia

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    Oct 15, 2012