CentralSettings Class |
Represents a collection of program wide settings and events for when those settings change.
This should probably be the bottleneck for all program wide settings, but stuff is still littered about for now.
Inheritance HierarchyNamespace: Grasshopper
Assembly: Grasshopper (in Grasshopper.dll)
SyntaxThe CentralSettings type exposes the following members.
Properties| Name | Description | |
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  | AuthorAddress |
Gets or sets the default author address to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorCompany |
Gets or sets the default author company to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorCopyright |
Gets or sets the default author copyright to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorCopyrightFormatted |
Gets the authorCopyright message formatted to match the current date.
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| AuthorDetails |
Gets a new GH_AuthorDetails instance populated with the current settings.
Changing this instance does not affect the settings.
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| AuthorEMail |
Gets or sets the default author e-mail to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorName |
Gets or sets the default author name to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorPhone |
Gets or sets the default author phone to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| AuthorWebsite |
Gets or sets the default author website to be used for all data generated by this Grasshopper installation.
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| CanvasFancyWires |
Gets or sets whether or not fancy wires will be drawn. This is a global setting.
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| CanvasFullNames |
Gets or sets the global default for verbose UI. When CanvasFullNames=True,
parameter nicknames are set to their actual (long) names upon addition.
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| CanvasMaxSearchResults |
Gets or sets the maximum number of search results for populating the Create menu.
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| CanvasObjectIcons |
Gets or sets the global default for icon display.
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| CanvasObsoleteTags |
Gets or sets the global default for obsolete tags.
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| CanvasRadialMenu |
Gets or sets the global default for whether the canvas should use Radial or olds-kool menus.
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| CanvasSpaceIsRadialMenu |
Gets or sets whether the space bar triggers the radial menu (pre Rhino 6.3 behaviour)
or the Create menu (post Rhino 6.3 behaviour).
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| CanvasSpaceSearchRadialMessage |
Gets or sets the number of times the space-is-now-search-and-not-radial message has been shown.
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| CanvasToolbar |
Gets or sets whether or not the canvas toolbar will be visible. This is a global setting.
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| CanvasZuiZoomLevel |
Gets or sets the global Zui zoom threshold.
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| CapsuleHighlight |
Gets or sets the global setting for drawing highlight bars on capsules.
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| CapsuleShine |
Gets or sets the global setting for drawing shiny edges on capsules.
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| ComponentCascadeMenus |
Gets or sets whether Grasshopper document solutions are wrapped in undo records.
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| CreateSolutionUndoRecord |
Gets or sets whether Grasshopper document solutions are wrapped in undo records.
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| FormatDecimalDigits |
Gets or sets how many digits ought to be used for decimal formatted numbers.
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| FormatENotationDigits |
Gets or sets how many digits ought to be used for scientific notation formatted numbers.
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| FormatENotationLowerLimit |
Gets or sets at what power of ten decimal formatting of numbers switches to E notation for small numbers.
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| FormatENotationLowerThreshold |
Gets at what actual threshold numeric formatting switches from decimal to E-Notation.
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| FormatENotationUpperLimit |
Gets or sets at what power of ten decimal formatting of numbers switches to E notation for large numbers.
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| FormatENotationUpperThreshold |
Gets at what actual threshold numeric formatting switches from decimal to E-Notation.
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| FormatMultiplesOfOne |
Gets or sets whether floating point numbers close to whole integers should be special cased.
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| FormatMultiplesOfPi |
Gets or sets whether multiples of 0.5*Pi ought to be special cased.
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| InvalidBakeAllow |
Gets or sets the default choice for baking invalid objects.
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| InvalidBakeAsk |
Gets or sets whether a warning ought to be displayed prior to
baking invalid geometry. By default this is always TRUE when
Grasshopper starts.
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| IsTemplateFile |
Gets whether a template file has been defined and whether that file ectually exists.
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| PanelDefaultFontFamily |
Gets or sets the font family name of the default font for panels.
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| PanelDefaultFontSize |
Gets or sets the font family name of the default font for panels.
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| PreviewBumpZBuffer |
Gets or sets whether the Document preview bumps the Z-Buffer.
Setting this value automatically causes a redraw of the Rhino viewports.
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| PreviewGumballs |
Gets or sets whether the gumballs will be visible for selected preview geometry.
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| PreviewMeshEdges |
Gets or sets the Mesh Wire display flag.
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| PreviewPlaneRadius |
Gets or sets the global Plane radius.
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| PreviewPointRadius |
Gets the default radius of the point objects given the current style.
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| PreviewPointStyle |
Gets or sets the point style for Grasshopper preview points.
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| PreviewSelectionThickening |
Gets or sets the amount of thickening to apply to selected wires.
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| PruderyLevel |
Gets or sets the Grasshopper UI prudery level.
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| RibbonDrawTabIcons |
Gets or sets whether tab icons are drawn for the ribbon.
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| RibbonSeparators |
Gets or sets whether there are separators between different exposures on the component Ribbon.
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| RibbonShowObscure |
Gets or sets a value indicating whether components marked with DropDown exposure
are drawn on the main toolbar anyway.
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| RibbonVisible |
Gets or sets a value indicating whether components marked with DropDown exposure
are drawn on the main toolbar anyway.
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| ShowTutorials |
Gets or sets whether the tutorial browser is shown on Grasshopper load.
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| TemplateFile |
Gets or sets the template file path. Use String.Empty or Nothing to disable the template file.
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| TooltipWiggleRadius |
Gets or sets the wiggle radius (in pixels) which the mouse is allowed to move
before the tooltip is nuked.
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| TrackFileStamps | |
| TrackPluginLoading |
Gets or sets whether plugins are tracked during loading
in order to detect plugins causing fatal crashes during load.
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| TryDownloadMissingPlugins |
Gets or sets whether the 'Unrecognized Objects' dialog pops up
on file load.
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Methods| Name | Description | |
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 | GetLoadMechanism |
Gets what load mechanism has been specified for a certain plugin.
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| IsLoadProtected |
Gets whether a certain plugin is load protected.
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| SetLoadMechanism |
Sets the user defined load mechanism for a certain plugin.
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| SetLoadProtected |
Sets whether a certain plugin is load protected.
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| UserOkayWithBakingInvalidObject |
Show the warning for baking invalid objects, or return the default choice
if the warning is disabled.
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Events| Name | Description | |
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 | AuthorAddressChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorAddress field is changed.
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| AuthorCompanyChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorCompany field is changed.
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| AuthorCopyrightChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorCopyright field is changed.
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| AuthorEMailChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorEMail field is changed.
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| AuthorNameChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorName field is changed.
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| AuthorPhoneChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorPhone field is changed.
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| AuthorWebsiteChanged |
Raised whenever the AuthorWebsite field is changed.
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| CanvasFancyWiresChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasFancyWires setting changes.
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| CanvasFullNamesChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasFullNames setting changes.
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| CanvasObjectIconsChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasObjectIcons setting changes.
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| CanvasObsoleteTagsChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasObsoleteTags setting changes.
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| CanvasRadialMenuChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasRadialMenu setting changes.
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| CanvasToolbarChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasToolbar setting changes.
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| CanvasZuiZoomLevelChanged |
Raised whenever the CanvasZuiZoomLevel setting changes.
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| ComponentCascadeMenusChanged |
Raised whenever the ComponentCascadeMenus setting changes.
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| CreateSolutionUndoRecordChanged |
Raised whenever the CreateSolutionUndoRecord setting changes.
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| FormattingChanged |
Raised whenever a formatting setting is changed.
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| LoadMechanismChanged |
Raised whenever the load mechanism of a certain plugin changes.
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| LoadProtectionChanged |
Raised whenever the load protection of a certain plugin changes.
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| PanelDefaultFontChanged |
Raised whenever the PanelDefaultFontFamily or PanelDefaultFontSize settings change.
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| PreviewBumpZBufferChanged |
Raised whenever the PreviewBumpZBuffer setting changes.
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| PreviewGumballsChanged |
Raised whenever the PreviewGumballs setting changes.
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| PreviewMeshEdgesChanged |
Raised whenever the PreviewMeshEdges setting changes.
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| PreviewPlaneRadiusChanged |
Raised whenever the PreviewPlaneRadius setting changes.
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| PreviewPointStyleChanged |
Raised whenever the PreviewPointStyle setting changes.
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| PruderyLevelChanged |
Raised whenever the PruderyLevel setting changes.
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| RibbonAllIconsChanged |
Raised whenever the RibbonAllIcons setting changes.
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| RibbonDrawTabIconsChanged |
Raised whenever the RibbonDrawTabIcons setting changes.
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| RibbonSeparatorsChanged |
Raised whenever the RibbonSeparators setting changes.
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| RibbonVisibleChanged |
Raised whenever the RibbonVisible setting changes.
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| TemplateFileChanged |
Raised whenever the TemplateFile property is changed.
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| TooltipWiggleRadiusChanged |
Raised whenever the TooltipWiggleRadius setting changes.
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| UiScaleChanged |
Raised whenever the UiScale setting changes.
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