Hi @eirannejad , Congrats on the progress of the Rhino 8 Grasshopper Script Editor. It looks a lot sharper than last time I had a go. That said, I do find there are design issues where the current GHPython editor shines brighter. Notably: 1: Wasted Screen Space + Visually Busy/Cluttered With the sa…

[image] AndersDeleuran: Edit: While you’re in there, it would be great to add the DrawForeground as a standard override We can do this, but the script would not work in Rhino 7. Is that a problem?

I don’t think so. If one writes a script in the new editor, that wouldn’t even open in Rhino 7. And I can’t think of a good reason why one would back port a script. It would be really cool and helpful to have!

Ok, this is as much about additions to the SDK as it is about some friendly tweaks to the editor to make this easy to type in. We’ll need to look at adding this to the SDK first. https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-77256/Add-DrawForeground-override-for-components

@AndersDeleuran @stevebaer I’m getting the script instance cleaned up so now we have all languages being able to implement a Script Instance and override these methods. I looked into adding DrawForeground but you are right. It’s better for this to be part of GH SDK first instead of the instance wiri…

Ah sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that this wouldn’t involve updating the Grasshopper component class in the SDK. I just meant that I wouldn’t expect new features in Rhino 8 (whether RhinoCommon, Grasshopper SDK, or editors) to work in Rhino 7. I’m probably not seeing the larger picture …

[image] AndersDeleuran: … perhaps consider reorganising and trimming the GUI elements a bit to make it more like the current GHPython component. After two months testing the new script editor, I still find its layout quite wasteful and distracting. If I might add to my previous suggestions ab…

Here’s how it currently looks on macOS. When you first open the editor, you get greeted by a weirdly empty window. I would prefer to have an empty text editor window, where you could already write in or something. [Screenshot 2023-10-08 at 18.01.37] Or why not simply offer options to create a do…

RH-77729 Allow support for compact dashboard

In the next BETA build, you will have options to compact the editor in various ways. We will continue to improve these options of course but this is the first step: [Rhino_UEVvOw3aPf] When all options are compacted, the editor is pretty minimal looking: [Rhino_ykHsNXs46i] :warning: Currently t…

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brian (Brian Gillespie) September 27, 2023, 2:19am 43

RH-77140 is fixed in the latest BETA

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