Can a Rhino Plugin create its own UI?

Continuing the discussion from Use Rhino functionality in C++ application:

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Hi John,

Is there a question here?

– Dale

Can a rhino plugin create its own UI?

Yes.

You can make a Winforms GUI or a WPF GUI. Recently, McNeel started using the Eto.Forms toolkit for cross platform GUIs that run on Windows as well as Mac.

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Hi John,
maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/rap

Hi Jess,

Yes, that’s what I was looking for.

Thanks,

John

Hi Jess, this is exactly the link I’ve been looking for for days. Thanks. Do you know if there are examples (e.g. youtube) of what is possible in a skin? We currently use a surface modelling tool that uses a kernal and bespoke GUI for CAM but are considering moving to Rhino and would like to know what is possible or if there are any constraints on UI. In essence we want to create a parametric model (Grasshopper) and only expose controls relevent to our CAD-unskilled users.

Hi Paul, I don’t know about any video tutorials about that. There is an animated gif on the linked C++ sample which demonstrates what’s possible: http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/sdksamples/skin

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Many thanks Jess. Got some good Jewelery examples from McNeel e.g. Matrix product by GemVision and the RhinoGold application by TDM Solutions. Thanks

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I think RAP has been superseded in the past … *checks watch* … 7 years by projects like Rhino.Inside and, to a lesser extent, Rhino.Compute.

What made you look for Rhino Application Platform?

Honestly I can’t remember :sweat_smile:
Today I start to read all my unread discussions and it was about 20 of them and inside some of them was links and can’t remember which link brough me here! (sometimes I click on link just for curiosity :grin:)

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