MD Slider initialization

[billd]

Can a MD Slider be initialized? I can initialize a NumberSlider and would like to do the same with a MD Slider.

[maje90 (Riccardo Majewski)]

From http://james-ramsden.com/instantiate-grasshopper-component/
and made a little change to make MD sliders instead of normal ones…

create_slider.gh (10.4 KB)

[billd]

Riccardo.

I’ll play with this C# script to get a better understanding of the MD_Slider SDK interface.

My wish list for this hypothetical component:

(1) Initialize an existing MDSlider, not create (instantiate) a new one.
(2) Set the X & Y ranges with input values (not by double-clicking), such as from a Range compoment .
(3) Lock the MDSlider in place (avoid accidentally moving the component when moving the cross-hairs).

For example: if I input (-1 to 1) as the range for both X & Y, and set a Boolean toggle to True (to initialize), the cross-hairs would be centered in the display grid at 0,0 and the output values would be 0,0 as well. If the Boolean toggle is False, whatever the existing values are in the slider would be output and no adjustment made to the cross-hairs.

Thanks again.

[maje90 (Riccardo Majewski)]

@billd

(1) Initialize an existing MDSlider, not create (instantiate) a new one.

… what do you mean, then? Edit/change an existing one?

@billd

(3) Lock the MDSlider in place

I don’t know how to do so… (apart from ugly looping a c# to re-set its position…)

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Try this:

MDslider intervals.gh (19.4 KB)

This overwrite current slider intervals, so i’m not sure how to integrate your boolean toggle… can you explain that again?
What are the “cross-hairs”?

[billd]

Reset a MD_Slider.gh (6.0 KB)

Found some old code posted on this subject and adapted it to my needs.

Set value for MD Slider upstreams? [Solved]

I’m trying to reset the value of a MD Slider upstreams via code. “Visually” the MD slider is reset to desired starting position (0.5, 0.5) but I’m not receiving that Value back from its output. Only after I poke on it with the mouse, the value that was set is emitted from the MD slider. Why is that? [bild] The code which did reset the slider (pictured above) which still is stuck on (0.48, -0.57, 0) despite the fact that the slider’s handle was moved to the middle: RunScript { var in…

Locking is still a problem because I haven’t found what class hierarchy the Multidimensional slider is derived from. Is it GH_Component:

Is it possible to lock component position on canvas?

Locking objects is not possible. You can change the grip display style of Sliders to make erroneous clicks somewhat less likely, but that’s about it I’m afraid.

[billd]

I’ve recently been experiencing problems with (Reset a MD_Slider.gh) that I included in my prior post.
Sorry.
This seems to work for a single slider - no guarantees.

Reset a MD_Slider_2.gh (7.4 KB)