Where can I learn ScriptContext’s functions? I can’t find it in “rhinocommon.chm” and “rhinoscript help”

Maybe this can help: [image] Understanding scriptcontext Scripting Hi, I’m trying to get my head around adding object to a document via python and rhino common and more in general “what scriptcontext is” In examples I find for instance scriptcontext.doc.Objects.AddSurf…

You could also have a look at the source code (scriptcontext is just a regular Python module), it is located around here: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins\IronPython (814d908a-e25c-493d-97e9-ee3861957f49)\settings\lib\ scriptcontext.py

I’m getting a bit confused when looking at contents of scriptcontext.py. It doesn’t import any other python library like rhinoscriptsyntax.py does except for import RhinoPython.Host as __host. I understand that it “bridges” to RhinoCommon, but I was expecting python definitions that wrap RhinoCommon…

If you look at the contents of C:\Users\You.rhinocode\python3.9-1.20\site-rhinopython\rhinoscript\ you can see the actual rhinoscript functions and how they use Rhinocommon.

[image] Daniel_Krajnik: Is it correct to assume then that scriptcontext is almost exactly the same as RhinoCommon? In a way I think the answer is yes, because all it does is that scriptcontext.doc provides you with functions to interact with the current rhinodoc, as in Rhino.RhinoDoc.ActiveDo…

I am just guessing with this one, but presumably scriptcontext has been designed to just give users a less overwhelming subset of RhinoCommon functions.

ActiveDoc is not reliable as Mac Rhino can have multiple docs open and there can be a pseudo doc used in the context of grasshopper. Using scriptcontext.doc is best as it lets you use the appropriate doc in the context of the script being run.

[image] Daniel_Krajnik: Is it correct to assume then that scriptcontext is almost exactly the same as RhinoCommon? I don’t look at it exactly that way. I consider it the ‘bridge’ between your code and the current document that lets you access data from and write data to the document. For ex…

Where can I learn ScriptContext's functions?

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Helvetosaur April 26, 2017, 2:45pm 2

Maybe this can help:

–Mitch

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Where can I learn ScriptContext's functions?

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