forgive my ignorance concerning .net programming, this question might be stupid but: is it possible that we will be able to "compile" grasshopper definitions to stand alone plug ins, which then might run a lot faster ?
On Jan 26, 11:59 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > Since Grasshopper is a DotNET program, it automatically has an SDK > already. If you reference Grasshopper.rhp in any DotNET project, you > can use the classes and functions directly. That is one of the most > beautiful features of DotNET. > > Some people have been writing custom components over a year ago, > though I doubt they are still doing it. The reason I'm discouraging > people to do this is that I'm changing the program and -very often- > also the SDK on a day to day basis. If you decided to write your own > component library, you might have to update it every time a new > version of Grasshopper is released. This is not a fertile basis for > 3rd party development. > > However, Grasshopper has been designed from the start with custom > plugins in mind. We won't have to 'forcefully insert' openings for 3rd > party developers. > > -- > David Rutten > [email protected] > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Jan 26, 7:01 am, CAD-NY <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What the heck, we'll wait.... > > I wish I could use in full what ever is there already. > > Own sdk? It's hard to keep up. > > > On Jan 26, 12:03 am, damien_alomar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > David has talked about being able to have clusters be able to have > > > that sort of functionality. Also, there's the long term potential for > > > GH to have its own sdk for more "fully fledged" development, but its > > > been a really long time (more than a year) since I talked to David > > > about that...and he was in no rush to start putting that kind of stuff > > > out there. > > > > -Damien > > > > On Jan 25, 10:35 pm, CAD-NY <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Will it be possible one day to be able to add User-Category-Tabs to > > > > store frequent Clusters, Multi-Components or VB objects made by the > > > > user?
