Grasshopper 2 Plugin Development

[kempbrandon1 (Brandon Kemp)]

Hi,

I am learning plugin development for Grasshopper 1. I made a component from the Grasshopper 2 sample file, but I cannot figure out how to use the new way of making icons for components.

[assembly: PlugInDescription(DescriptionType.Icon, “Grasshopper2_PlugIn.Icons.plugin.ico”)]

I think someone has been able to do this. @t.schwartz It seems that you were able to do this.

[kempbrandon1 (Brandon Kemp)]

@martinsiegrist Would you be able to help with this topic?

SDK Support

@gankeyu & @matthewaustin233 I was wondering if you could type or copy and paste how I would use associate an icon with a different name than the component name? I apologize that I do not how to static methods in the way you are suggesting to use them. I watch ParametricCamp’s video, but I can not pick up on what you are directing people to type. [Screenshot 2025-04-26 144345] [image] I edited the post because I may have gotten part of the way. Grasshopper ignores, but Visual Studio does n…

[martinsiegrist]

I don’t make plugins

[kempbrandon1 (Brandon Kemp)]

@martinsiegrist

Not a problem. I was thinking along that path, but I thought it would be a good thing to ask you. Thank you for the well wishes. It is good to get an instance to speak to a significant contributor.

[kempbrandon1 (Brandon Kemp)]

@martinsiegrist

I was able to get it solved with the help of @gankeyu

New Grasshopper 2.0 alpha 2025/Feb

Well, it depends on David. I think, since GH2 is still far from complete, it would be documented a bit later.

Thank you.