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

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