I thought it was already bridged with the 'stream contents' of the notes component. What am I missing?
On Oct 17, 10:42 am, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > you're probably the first to bridge the Excel/Grasshopper gap, > congratulations. > > The bidirectional thing is not possible using a Script components (at > least I think it isn't). In order to handle events you need to > instantiate class instances which are not garbage-collected after the > script function terminates. This could be done by using Static/Shared > members, but you'd still somehow have to write a method that functions > as the event handler. It is currently impossible to add functions to a > VB Script component, because all the code you write already ends up > inside a function. > > Essentially, all you really need to do is call OnSolutionExpired() on > the component that reads Excel data, whenever an Excel event is > raised. This will cause the solution to recalculate that part which > has been potentially changed. However, you do not have access to the > components from within your script code, you'll need to make an actual > component for this, which in turn means you'll need to make a *.gha > file, which in turn means you need to write it using Visual Studio (or > some other dev-platform). > > -- > David Rutten > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Oct 17, 3:13 am, Marc Hoppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Made a first test of an Exel component (PointCoordinate Extraction) > > which works really well. > > As Grasshopper seems to rerun the code when a change in the logic is > > detected it even works live!! > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/grasshopperExcel.mov... > > > Creating a bidirectional component is a bit harder as one would have > > to write an event watcher for Excel to make the Excel-> grasshopper > > direction possible... > > Any ideas for that? > > > Marc
