Problem calling Rhinoscript from inside C# method

Rhino Developer
1

Dear community,

I am a starting C# developer and Rhinoceros user. I have used Rhinoscript and am now making my first attempts to work with C# and Rhinoceros.

I used code from dalefugier (Dale Fugier) · GitHub called SampleCsModalForm, which I could compile and install. After installation, I could call the command SampleCsModalForm from within Rhinoceros and see a window with three buttons appear. When clicking one of the buttons, a MessageBox is called, which also works fine.

However, I also wanted to execute a script in the method that is called when a button is clicked:

private void HelloButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(“Hello Rhino!”, “SampleCsForm”, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Asterisk);
if (Rhino.RhinoApp.RunScript(“_-Line 0,0,0 10,10,10”, true))
{
MessageBox.Show(“Runscript OK!”, “SampleCsForm”, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Asterisk);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(“Runscript FAILED!”, “SampleCsForm”, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Asterisk);
}
}

I expected a line to appear in Rhino, but I got as result the MessageBox saying Runscript FAILED! Any ideas what I did wrong? Also, my goal I am working towards is to call a rather big script from an rvb file instead of calling direct rhino commands, something like Loadscript (and execute it), but from within a C# method.

Kind regards,

Filip Rooms

2

The command that shows the form should have CommandStyle equal to Style.ScriptRunner to be able to run scripts.

 [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("256b4f8c-aa0a-4a5d-b274-0856c00c43c0")]
  [CommandStyle(Style.ScriptRunner)]
  public class SampleCsModalFormCommand : Command
  {
    public SampleCsModalFormCommand()
    {
    }
1 Like
About RunScript question
3

Dear menno,

Thanks for your answer. I also just found http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/runrhinocommandfromplugincommand where it says I can only run scripts like you say. Moving the call to the script to a method derived from the right parent class and adding [CommandStyle(Style.ScriptRunner)] indeed did the trick.

I also could run an external script using Rhino.RhinoApp.RunScript("_-LoadScript " + externalScriptNameAndPath, true)

4

Great :smile: