David, I tried taking a look at this today and wound up suprisingly getting no where with it. I was specifically trying it with Breps though, but I'm not sure if the object attributes get retained when loaded into grasshopper. I'm not sure if it was my approach or not, but I had a hard time generating an MRhinoObject (or a MRhinoBrepObject) from the input values. I tried both as a generic object and a bRep, and neither one seamed to work. I'm wondering if there were any tricks to this that I was unaware of. It seams to me that the only way to get to object attributes is through MRhinoObject (or an class that inherits MRhinoObject), so how would you go about getting there from a OnBrep or something like that.
Also, would it be possible to have an OnObject option on the type list. It would be useful as a "catch all" hint for generic geometry. It seams to me that the Object option seams a little restrictive since it could be anything (i guess). Or could this be circumvented by just casting object to specific data types and seeing if the cast "sticks". Thanks, Damien On Feb 7, 3:05 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > Jarek, > > due to current behaviour, if you import a Grasshopper point into a VB > component, only the actual coordinate is maintained. Any reference > data (i.e. the ID of the point object, or the ID of the curve object > and the parameter along the curve length etc. etc.) is stripped. > > The only way to get an ID is to actually type it into a String > parameter. In the attached network, I copy-pasted the entire _What > content into the String parameter 'Manage Collection' dialog and then > removed all the bogus lines. > > http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/retrieve_object_name... > > The current conversion logic does not automatically create IDs from > referenced geometry, nor does it create Geometry from IDs. This will > only be available in the next version. > > -- > David Rutten > [email protected] > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Feb 7, 4:04 pm, Jarek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can anyone help me to make VB.NET component that would take a set of > > objects and output a set of strings that are the object names ? > > I am particulary looking for inputing set of Point Objects. > > ( I guess that is a WISH for ObjectName component at some point in > > future releases of GH...) > > > thanks
