Rhino GUI with CPython

Rhino.Inside CPython
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Hi Dev Team,

It has been a while since I last heard of news regarding Control Rhino with GUI using CPython, a.k.a. not a headless Rhino as described here or here.

I would say my goal is to be able to control Rhino, in the sense that I can do geometrical operations, add remove objects with Rhino Doc and initiate UI interaction for user to pick and click things. This is currently possible with PythonScript, however as Python 2 had sunset for 2 years, it had been difficult maintaining compliance and keep up with dependency libraries.

I’m aware that Rhino.Inside is the closest Rhino can get with CPython at the moment. An alternative is that Python Scripting component will migrate from IronPython to CPython, or even less likely is that IronPython will have a Python 3 plot. So I’m pinging if there are any news regarding that.

Thanks a lot.

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We are actively working on CPython support in Rhino 8.

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Has anyone successfully implemented this approach yet?

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What approach? Rhino 7 running inside of CPython, or Rhino 8 (which has native CPython support)?

– Dale

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I was asking about the approach described by the original poster, which involves controlling a non-headless Rhino document using Python. Some programs have a Python console/shell which can be used in place of the GUI while retaining the ability to interact with and visualize the model — I was wondering if someone could share information about how to accomplish this using Rhino.inside for Python

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Hi @Peter_Manos,

You might start here:

— Dale