Oops, meant 'COULD you', sorry. My 3rd grade English teacher taught me better...
On Dec 21, 11:47 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Damien, > Can you post the code for reading excel files? My programming > knowledge is pretty basic, but i google searched for examples of > vb.net reading excel files, and all of them required 'imports' that > don't appear in the scripting component. > About the triggering event, I'm guessing that pressing the 'play' > button of the canvas toolbar would do the trick? That would be enough > for me... for now. > > On Dec 21, 10:43 pm, damien_alomar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can read from Excel...the big hurdle (as I said in my post on the > > newsgroup) is how you actually grab excel. The way the scripting > > components work that's really the biggest hurdle. The only thing > > about reading from excel is that the only way it would read the file > > was if either something in Rhino or GH changed, so if you change the > > excel file nothing would change within the GH environment. I was > > working on trying to get excel events to fire off a change and got a > > sub in excel fired off for a change, but I was unable to successfully > > get the rhino instance to fire of a change that would be registered by > > GH. I haven't taken to close of a look at it in a while, but I might > > sit down with this again. > > > -Damien > > > On Dec 20, 2:18 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't think you can read excel yet, but I'm not sure. About bringing > > > numeric data from an outside source, i did it using a text file in > > > this example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7xFA-5YZc > > > Here's the > > > definition:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/gh_audio.rar > > > It reads a text file that contains a list of numbers representing the > > > values of a sound wave and generates geometry with them. > > > > On Dec 20, 7:12 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This is great...I have a question on this...is there any way to bring > > > > data in from Excel in a similar fashion? I have tried bringing > > > > numeric data from the outside using the text component, but have > > > > trouble converting it such that GH recognizes it as a number. Any > > > > help? > >
