Now the folder I set in the Rhino 8 Grasshopper Developer settings shows up in the Grasshopper Developer settings in Rhino 7. I can’t delete it, so I changed it to the Libraries folder and EleFront Beta did not show up in Rhino 7 once. After closing and opening the setting was back to the folder ‘8’.
Is there even a way to make plugins compatible with Rhino 8? The .net code was updated for V8 and I have been having trouble getting some popular addons to work, in the V7 WIP, it was pretty straightforward.
Hi @martinsiegrist I believe this would be a request for advice from McNeel. R6, R7, and R8 use the same folder and what appears to be the same file for grasshopper settings such as the developer settings as you noticed above. We would need some way to distinguish which component to load when launching Grasshopper depending on the version of Rhino that is running. A couple of places to start to look for this may be some startup script that launches when Rhino stars that modifies the GH developer settings folder locations (if this is possible) or seeing how Rhino.inside deals with loading certain components when launched from inside the parent application. Just throwing some ideas out there, not sure they are good ones!
The extension you are recalling is adding .no6 to a file with the same name as the component you don’t want to load in to Rhino 6 or later. This still works, but restricts the component from loading in R6, R7, and R8, which is not what you want.
A workaround may be try using the package manager to install the components in R6, R7, and R8. You can then just go to the folder location and remove the components that you don’t want to load.
Packages appear here on Windows: C:\Users{{USERNAME}}\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages
@martinsiegrist - I just made a 8.0 folder in the packages folder and move the eleFront beta from the 7.0 folder to here and it works as you requested. Hacky, but gives you the desired effect.
I would remove all of the references to separate directories in GrasshopperDeveloperSettings. This feature is really only intended for developers writing plug-ins and being able to debug them locally. The package manager should handle all of the ghas installed in the packages directory for you.
I deleted the folders in the Grasshopper Developer settings.
Basically the workaround @elevelle suggested above means installing both eleFront 4.2.2 and 5.0.4 in Rhino 7 and then moving the 5.0.4 folder from the package manager folder 7.0 to the 8.0 folder.
I did that three times now and while it seems to work when doing this with Rhino 7 and 8 open at the same time, after restarting the computer unfortunately Rhino 8 WIP deletes eleFront:
That’s it. I’ll wait until eleFront is available in the package manager.
Just to be clear, eleFront is available in the package manager upto R7. We have not tested in R8 yet, thus not made it available for the package manager for R8.
When there is time, we will update to the WIP version. But for now, what I have described is the only workaround for your specific use case. I tested restarting Rhino, but not the computer.
