Hi Willem, it seems people didn't like the empty list stroke. I removed that one and now draw the wire orange if it's empty.
I cannot draw a line like this: ─┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬─ ─┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴─ with a single stroke. This requires 2 pens (unless I'm missing a solution), one dashed pen and one compound pen. So your second set is not possible at this time. I'm afraid I also disagree with your first set. To me, a dashed line is less than a solid line, therefore using it to mark multiple values instead of a single value is the wrong way around. A double dashed line makes me think of a 'road under construction' on motor way maps. I do agree that the Tree pattern is pretty complex, but this particular series of gaps, dashes, caps and compounds seems to conjure no association with common line types in everyday life. Who knows, once I make a full blows UI for all display and other settings, I might even include a custom stroke designer :) -- David Rutten [email protected] Robert McNeel & Associates On Mar 20, 4:41 pm, Willem <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Great! > a wish in the morning made visual is the afternoon:-) > > My initial idea was to have a list as dashes and a tree as parallel > lines but > Your suggestion might be better. > The tree is a more complex line as is the data. > > I feel the example tree is visually too complex.... > The rectangular blocks are visually too strong IMO. > They create too much visual noise. > > some suggestions: > What about leaving out the perpendicular closing lines. > making it a double dashed line with less open space. > > How about more of a relation between the types: > > 1 line single value > ______________ > > 1 dashed line = list > ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ > > double (parallel) dashed line = tree. > ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ > ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ > > Or > > ___________________ > > & > ___________________ > ___________________ > > & > ____________________ > __|____|____|____|____| > > BTW empty list is perfect :-) > > Cheers > Willem > > On Mar 20, 3:10 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/NewWireTypes.jpg > > > I'm too lazy to try and find in which thread this came up.. so here's > > a screenshot of potential different wire types. > > I'll turn this into an option which will be off by default. > > > I can also tweak colours, but it will be difficult to add support for > > multiple pen strokes, so the pattern ought to be possible with a > > single GDI pen definition. > > > -- > > David Rutten > > [email protected] > > Robert McNeel & Associates
