Wish: direct tree option edit

[Micha]

Hi,

it could be great if by click on an option of the option tree the value is selected and can direct typed in. So with less clicks the value could be changed. For example AO distance: click on the option and simple type 5 -> enter would be the short way. See screenshot - here the "3" could be preselected.

Micha

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it could be great if by click on an option of the option tree the value is selected and can direct typed in. So with less clicks the value could be changed. For example AO distance: click on the option and simple type 5 -> enter would be the short way. See screenshot - here the "3" could be preselected.

I have tried implementing this before, however auto-selecting the edit box controls introduces a lot of problems. This is primarily due to RhinoCommon or .NET (I'm not sure which) firing a "text has changed" event a second or two after you enter a new value in an edit box, so you might have max samples set to 10000, and you want to change that to 2000, and you press the '2' key and pause and the plugin receives a "change" event and changes the number of samples to 2, which is not what you wanted.

Paul

[Micha]

Oh, that's hard for the programmer.

Thank you Paul.

[formatio]

Hi Paul

Direct tree editing would be great

I have another idea - would it be possible to implement a way to choose (in some config screen or maybe using a config file) which nodes to show and which to hide?
For example I mostly use the same set of nodes and there are some nodes that I never touch (actually there is quite a lot of them).
Managing nodes visibility in the tree would greatly improve the workflow since it would be much easier to find that particular node

Regards,
Mac

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I have another idea - would it be possible to implement a way to choose (in some config screen or maybe using a config file) which nodes to show and which to hide?
For example I mostly use the same set of nodes and there are some nodes that I never touch (actually there is quite a lot of them).
Managing nodes visibility in the tree would greatly improve the workflow since it would be much easier to find that particular node

What a good idea! There could be an "Expert" mode, which shows all nodes, but in "Normal" mode, any node name you have in a particular XML file is hidden. I will assess the viability of this.

Paul

[formatio]

Cool.

I think that the good way to use a xml config file would be by editing some kind of a flag next to a node name (for example ON or OFF) so we have all the nodes names in config file all the time and we could simply switch them without removing/adding.

Regards,
Mac

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I have another idea - would it be possible to implement a way to choose (in some config screen or maybe using a config file) which nodes to show and which to hide?
For example I mostly use the same set of nodes and there are some nodes that I never touch (actually there is quite a lot of them).
Managing nodes visibility in the tree would greatly improve the workflow since it would be much easier to find that particular node

I had a detailed look at this, and it is unfortunately not viable. There is no way to "hide" and tree node in the .NET GUI. So the only way to hide a node would be to not create it at all, and the Octane node are store in the tree nodes, so there would be Octane nodes with no corresponding tree node and that creates a lot of problems. Sorry.

Direct tree editing would be great

This would be nice to have, but creates a lot of problems due to the edit boxes gaining and loosing focus resulting in the render restarting, which I think will be unacceptable for you.

Paul

[formatio]

Hi Paul,

Too bad, but I get it

But I figured out another question: Is it possible to use rhino command line to edit nodes? for example a command like: OctaneSamples [Enter] 2048 [Enter] - sets render samples to 2048 without even opening octane tab.

That would be fantastic workflow boost if we could use commands - I could simply create separate toolbar with most common commands and voila. Maybe we could execute more commands in chain to change more nodes parameters at once (something like presets come to my mind but I know it can cause errors if non-existent command were inputted in chain).

(I'm not sure but I think that command line editing was already mentioned somewhere on the forum)

Regards,
Mac

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Is it possible to use rhino command line to edit nodes? for example a command like: OctaneSamples [Enter] 2048 [Enter] - sets render samples to 2048 without even opening octane tab.

Pls see viewtopic.php?f=41&t=42587&p=250347#p250347

Paul

[neiwei845458454]

Hi,
OctaneChangePinValue maxsamples it has not work well, I have tested please check