Change view settings via a script

Scripting
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I wish to access this specific setting via a script, so I can enable/disable it.

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I have been in here Rhino.Display.DisplayModeDescription.GetDisplayModes()

And in there I tried the dm_table[0].DisplayAttributes

but with no luck. Any good advice?

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import Rhino
mode = Rhino.RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc.Views.ActiveView.ActiveViewport.DisplayMode
mode.DisplayAttributes.HighlightSurfaces ^= True # toggles bool value
mode.DisplayAttributes.MeshSpecificAttributes.HighlightMeshes ^= True # toggles bool value
Rhino.Display.DisplayModeDescription.UpdateDisplayMode(mode)
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that script sets the “true” to the currently used display mode - if i get it right?
but how to change the settings of the shaded mode , weather its currently used or not
(does my question make sense?)

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mode = Rhino.Display.DisplayModeDescription.FindByName("Shaded")

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thank you.
but I dont get it. sorry.
now it looks to me as if its not part of the active document any more?

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The FindByName() method will search in the active document display modes.

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thank you,
it works - and I understood a bit more.

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FYI the method I came up with to solve this was to make a copy of shaded with those boxes checked and then use this script to compare the two display mode objects and find out what attributes were different between them. Seems like a good general-purpose solution for this sort of thing, so I thought I’d share it.

def compare(obj1, obj2):
	tab = "    "
	for attr in dir(obj1):
		if not hasattr(obj2, attr):
			print(attr)
			print(tab, getattr(obj1, attr))
			print(tab, "<no attr>")
			continue
		value1 = getattr(obj1, attr)
		value2 = getattr(obj2, attr)
		if value1 != value2 and "method" not in str(value1):
			print(attr)
			print(tab, getattr(obj1, attr))
			print(tab, getattr(obj2, attr))
	for attr in dir(obj2):
		if not hasattr(obj1, attr):
			print(attr)
			print(tab, "<no attr>")
			print(tab, getattr(obj2, attr)
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Why did I not think about this. This is such a good way to do it. Of course!!! Thank you!

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