Hi! Looking for a way to generate preview geometry, or geometry that is not directly editable/selectable. This geometry should be able to have object colors and such, so just locking it it is not sufficient for my purposes as it turns it all grey. I have created a plugin from the example Dale posted dealing with a ui panel: https://github.com/dalefugier/SampleCsPanel
In the panel I have some controls, buttons, checkboxes, etc. Lets say that I would like to toggle the visibility of the object with a checkbox. If the checkbox is checked, show the object. Currently I lock the object as I do not want the user to mess with it. Still, in this situation I have a few setbacks:
User can just unlock the item
The geometry is grey like all locked objects in the default rhino install
Would I need to create my own object class and override some attributes in order to create an un selectable object?
Have you considered using a DisplayConduit to “overlay” the unselectable geometry? We use this all the time in e.g. commands to show the user a preview of the command result.
The display conduit allows you to draw geometry in any color, line thickness, line pattern, etc.
When the user clicks a button, the previewed geometry can be placed in the document. This can even be done outside of a command, but the you have to take care to support undo using a custom undo action. Alternatively, the button can trigger a command that gets the latest preview geometry and adds it to the document. This will give you undo automatically.
That is incredibly helpful! I have already been playing around with the DisplayConduit and all of the things I imagined I wanted to do with this can be done. Very cool! Thanks again.