Is there a method to set the next displaymode by key or macro?
The wish is to have i.e. Shift+F4 to switch from Wireframe to Shaded to Rendered to…
And Shift+F5 for the other way around.
With a script it should be possible. One could either iterate through the list of all display modes set up, or hard code a more limited list of display modes in the script if one only wanted to cycle through a few.
Also need to decide whether the display mode si to be applied to all viewports or just the active one.
However Shift+FXX does not seem to be available via Rhino’s keyboard shortcuts, only Ctrl+FXX (or Ctrl+Shift).
Hi Charles - here is a thing from my pile that you can try, along the same lines as Mitch suggests - set the modes to cycle with one script and cycle them with the other.
CycleDisplayModes.zip (1.7 KB)
To use the Python script use RunPythonScript, or a macro:
_-RunPythonScript "Full path to py file inside double-quotes"
I guess it needs a tweak to be able to go both ways in the list, I’ll have a look.
-Pascal
Thanks Pascal, the script combination works well.
I like the preselection of modes!
Very good solution.
This doesn’t work at all.
_-RunPythonScript "T:\Desktop\SetCycleModes.py"
Hm… new to me, I’ll check.
-Pascal
Also in (8.6.24079.11001, 2024-03-19).
I tried in V7 (7.37.24004.15001, 2024-01-04), same error.
In the V7 Rhino Python Editor I get the error message, in V8 it simply runs.
Wasn’t there a thing with different Python versions (2/3 or so)?
_EditPythonScript in V8 shows the same behaviour.
See here, seems to be the same thing:
If by any chance you put this at the very top of the script does it help?
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
I’m wondering if what you are seeing is that one or more of your display modes has some non-ascii character or something. Just a shot in the dark.
Nope, that’s not it.
I commented out this line in SetCycleModes.py:
english_name = english_name.translate( "_ -,.")
Now it runs as expected.
I’ll try to find out what translate is supposed to do.
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@pascal
Can you please explain/comment/solve this?
I couldn’t find out about the translation table.
This is translate: Built-in Types — Python 3.10.13 documentation
I’m not entirely sure how it is supposed to be used in the shared code.