Do you guys have anything in RhinoCommon that we can call to get a “Description” for what a give Rhino Command does? We would like to include some more detailed help tooltips within our software related to Rhino Commands. Any direction or ideas would be super helpful!
Thanks guys! Keep up to great work!
Jason Stevenson
Your command can return a URL for help using CommandContextHelpUrl property. This can refer to a local CHM file or to an online page.
When the user has the Help panel open, the content of the URL is automatically loaded.
Thanks for the info Menno, but our software (MatrixGold) does not expose the Rhino UI directly. We are looking to be able to programmatically find the help summarys for specific Rhino Commands that we include in our UI, but wrap it in out own UI for display.
Hi @jstevenson,
Rhino commands don’t contain any meta-data that describes their functionality. Thus, the description you provide for tool-tip for Rhino commands will have to come from you.
– Dale
We do have a “standardized” url format that we call for each command that resolves to a different web page. You could scrape these pages for content if you want to provide customized help for core Rhino commands.
Thanks, I noticed I could do the url thing, but didn’t want to couple logic to a page that could change… We will probably end up just offering a link to the page.
Is this the correct format for the URL? Is it ok to deep link like this?
http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/6/help/en-us/index.htm#commands/{COMMAND}.htm