I mean like the help panel, where you can activate Dynamic Help and once you run a command it loads the wiki page of that command, giving you details not only of the command itself but all its options and what they do.
Sorry if I was not clear on the first answer.
Oh, I see.
@altamiro.aj still confusing for me since Grasshopper isn’t command line. Are you expecting a panel on the side, that shows the help file for a selected component?
This whole discussion (how to access help) is moot. Without content, there is no help, and the content is currently very bad. Above it is claimed that the online documentation is “80%” complete. It is nowhere near that unless you accept the entries as they are are finished, polished versions.
AND as Grasshopper (and Rhino) gradually grows in size and complexity, it becomes steadily more daunting for beginners.
And for brand new customers! I reckon this tends to be overlooked by old hands.
I’ve been using this amazing Application for several years now, but I did feel intimidated when I started with Rhino 5 (for Mac).
I sometimes ponder how very helpful the Online Documentation for Grasshopper would have been nearer the outset.
And, I’m finding this ‘WIP’ documentation useful now.
There should be a help panel somewhere on the screen and it should load the help from the node you selected, or the last node you dragged to the canvas or something like that.
So, basically, like in GH2. You can sense though, from GH1s general design premise, extra panels and side panels weren’t the guiding idea as much as dialogue windows and pop-ups. Not arguing here that you are wrong.
I have to check, I didn’t try GH2 yet. Is it standard on Rhino 9 WiP?
I don’t know, but I pulled up help for G2 in Rhino 8 and ascertained that I was mistaken; there too the help, or rather, documentation, is a pop-up window that appears when you click the question mark in the context dialogue of a right-click on a component, a component input / output, or the canvas. The documentation window cannot be docked as a panel to the Grasshopper window and gets backgrounded as soon as you click back on the canvas. It also does not update as you pick out new components from the registers or select (highlight) components from the canvas.
But these are beginning days and who knows how GH2s behavior will change. What we have at present does speak to my premonition that the documentation will sooner be a pop-up than a side-bar. At any rate, GH2s documentation is lightyears better than GH1s ramshackle and band-aid measures. Beyond component descriptions, it also has “topics” which describe the basic principles of the program and a glossary.
Any update on this? There are still quite a lot of components “to be updated”. Will this be completed when Rhino 9 ships?
Thank you for your reminder. We have been updating the component content every week, and we plan to complete all updates related to GH 1 for Rhino 8 within this year.
