I’m recently tried to add rhino commands to my already existant and working plugin that thus far only contained Grasshopper components. I am only a starter in that field.
I got stuck at testing if Rhino would load my freshly created RhinoCommand template.
After reading through the diverse forums, I saw a couple options:
Adding the .rhp path in the Registry Editor. (already quite cryptic for me)
Richt click on the project in VS and select “set as startup project”
Add Copy “(TargetPath)" "(TargetDir)(ProjectName).rhp"
erase "(TargetPath)” in the build events.
None of these made the commands show when loading rhino 8 from VS.
The gh components in this loaded instance would still be visible though, (I image it does since it is registered in the GrasshopperDevelopperSetting)
Beside the things I don’t even see/know/understand:
I don’t see any .rhp file being created in the bin folder when VS is loading a Rhino instance.
I don’t understand how to tell Rhino to look at the .rhp or .dll and load the Command that it contains
I don’t see the name of my plugin in options>Plugins of the loaded Rhino, to install it.
I have tried to read as much as possible but every solution seams to be skip a step in instructions.
I tried creating another project with a single Rhino command and it seems to work fine…Can we even have the same VS project as a Grasshopper and Rhino plugin?
I hope this discharge make sense, I guess i’ll have to share some more extra information at some point.
Thank you in advance for the help,
When clicking on install I don’t find any rhp to install in the bin.debug folder
I created another VS project in the meantime specifically for Rhino Commands and it seams to load the plugin.
But I would like to merge both projects under the same solution is possible,
I find myself in the same situation again, and can’t seem to find a solution. I will try my luck again here.
I would like to use the same VS project for both my grasshopper and Rhino Plugin, so I can reuse classes within the same project.
The issue is that when I start a VS project I have to either choose between a Rhincommon Plugin or a Grashopper Assembly.
From what I was trying to explain earlier, starting a project with one, let say a Grashopper Assembly, makes the Rhino commands not load (as no .rhp file is generated). The other way around also blocks, as no .gha file is generated.
Are we suppose to keep the Rhino commands and Grasshopper assembly seperate?
Is there a way to compile a .gha file as well as a .rhp and load both with debugging?
This takes a little Visual Studio skill. Basically, you create an blank solution and then add your Rhino plug-in, Grasshopper plug-in, and utility library projects to the solution. You’ll need to edit each of the project settings so they all output into the same folder.