Setting the entries in a value list?

So cool. Now it doesn’t need the Set button any longer really and we can have more dynamically updating dropdowns. As it happens its exactly what I need right now :slight_smile:

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Ahh nice!
This is really handy! :slight_smile:

Only 1 small thing question;
If I would like to add another ‘value List’ and would like to link it to the same PVL dropdown list;
If I add another value list, and simply adjust the name it does not ‘connect/automatically select the dowpdown’. Or what do I have to do to ‘connect’ these?

The copy paste function does work btw, but I am just interested in how it works :slight_smile:

thanks again!

It should work the same. The PVL component needs to run again in order to edit the new value list. So you can just recompute the canvas (or add a toggle button as an input to the PVL component again).

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Thanks you are right! Pefect! :+1: :+1:

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This thread is almost TLTR, considering it was “solved” in post #2, but I read it all. The only code I tried was your last post (210108_PopulateValueList_00.gh) and I have a bug to report and a suggestion.

If you connect either of your two text panels (both labeled “Keys”?) to both the ‘Keys’ and ‘Values’ inputs of your Python component, it behaves as expected; the dropdown value is also the output.

However, if you disconnect the PVL ‘Values’ input there is trouble.

  • BUG: 1. Solution exception:‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘Name’ and reconnecting the wire doesn’t make it go away (that’s bad!).

  • SUGGESTION: If there is no ‘Values’ input, use the Keys as the Values.

The bug is so severe that I’m not sure how the PVL component can be used at all on a blank canvas? Further testing shows that when the Value List component is empty, either by editing it or by the Python component, it becomes inaccessible and generates the error.

It’s only a bug if there are software requirements. Anywho, you can add this line to prevent the code running before it has something to work with (i.e. attempting to populate with nothing):


210108_PopulateValueList_01.gh (4.2 KB)

And these bits to avoid the item selection error raised when populating an empty value list:


210108_PopulateValueList_02.gh (4.4 KB)

It’s getting quite complicated. So I’ll leave to you to add all the use-cases you can think off.

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It’s definitely a bug! I found it immediately and there is no obvious way to recover from it, such as reconnecting the text panel. Your fix doesn’t address my suggestion but adding this line does:

if not Values:
    Values = Keys;

ValueList_suggestion

You don’t need the semicolon there at the end.

Super cool and had an immediate use for it: I needed a dropdown in GH to select a Layer from Rhino. Using Human’s Layer Table and this I can now pick a layer in GH and it even still works if layers are added as it will “remember” the selected item.

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For what it’s worth, that’s also true of the item selector (and its original envisioned use case!) It will “remember” the value you had selected even if the input changes, as long as it doesn’t disappear.

Yes, and I have used it as well for that purpose. I prefer using “normal” dropdowns since we always have a sort of cockpit area with all the inputs and having 1 blue dropdown stick out kind of hurts my designer eyes and it needs to have a label on it since it wont be next to the component any longer. Placing UI elements near the components is okay for tiny patches, but not for large ones usually.

I mean really I would love to use Human UI for all of that, but haven’t found the time to get into it.

I am still hoping one day we get dropdown support in the RCP and the RCP doesn’t quite look as shitty as it does now. Could we get something that works like the RCP, but looks more like Human UI!?

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@AndersDeleuran would you know why the same code in Python 3 does not update a value list consistently?

populate_value_list_python.gh (12.1 KB)

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Afraid I’ve not really had time to kick the tires of the new script component yet. It was too broken and cluttered last time I checked. Maybe it’s time to give it another whirl :thinking:

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Hi, I am having trouble getting the script to update with Python 3 also…recompute doesn’t seem to work…did you find a solution ?
thanks
Giusseppe

the very last alteration 210108_PopulateValueList_00.gh seems to work now …the trick seems to be the order that I attach the inputs in to the Py component…I am mostly using this with blocks listed from the rhino document using elefront so I have to pay strict attention to selecting nested blocks in order to get the full list…anyway when it works it is great but sometimes the canvas in GH freezes even though I can still move the mouse pointer and save.
Also works most of the time in WIP8
By the way this is all on a mac so problems might be there and not on windows…
One really useful aspect from this is that it makes changing attributes in nested blocks easier

Can you still zoom in and out using the scroll wheel? If so, I think its a known bug, where sometimes a boolean trigger can make Grasshopper “hang” (by that I mean freeze the UI), because it thinks the operation of all components has not yet finished. This can happen often with sort of custom code components, that you might trigger with a button.

If you are using a button to trigger something in Grasshopper, you can try using the “True Only Button” from I think Heteroptera. I’ll look up which Plugin it was. It usually helps in those cases.

Another way to remedy this, is usually to trigger a recompute again. It’s like it toggles between the frozen and normal state on every recompute.

Hope that helps.

Is there a way with the Human plugin to list a separated/categorized dropdown? For example from a 2D list, as in this example using the Rhino Polyhedron plugin:

Why not use two item selectors? I actually find that if I plug in all 1384 names my GH freezes for like 30 seconds and it would be a way too long list to scroll.

I would use 2 selectors and remove the “All” category first, since that would mean in the names list you have everything twice, since All contains all the others anyways.

polyheadra_names.gh (5.6 KB)

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:man_facepalming: of course, thank you!

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I’ve just created a GH model that displays ALL the polyhedra by branch in a grid. Very cool to see them. I think my favorite is the “Rhombic Icosahedron ” which has 20 equal size diamond shaped faces. It is [index = 15] in category “Other Solids” [index = 17].