Adding to Rhino's File Search Path
Windows only

by Dale Fugier (Last updated:  Wednesday, December 5, 2018)

Problem

You would like to add a file path to Rhino’s file search path without having to script the Options command.

Solution

Rhino’s file search path is held by Rhino’s CRhinoDirectoryManager object. You can get the one and only CRhinoDirectoryManager singleton as follows:

CRhinoDirectoryManager& dm = RhinoApp().RhinoDirectoryManager();

Example

The following utility function demonstrates how to add (insert append or insert) to Rhino’s file search path:

int RhAddSearchPath( const wchar_t* pszFolder, int index = -1 )
{
  int rc = -1;
  if( 0 == pszFolder || 0 == pszFolder[0] )
    return -1;

  int rc = -1;
  if( CRhinoFileUtilities::DirExists(pszFolder) )
  {
    CRhinoDirectoryManager& dm = RhinoApp().RhinoDirectoryManager();
    const int path_count = dm.SearchPathCount();
    for( int i = 0; i < path_count; i++ )
    {
      if( 0 == on_wcsicmp(pszFolder, dm.SearchPath(i)) )
      {
        rc = i;
        break;
      }
    }

    if( rc == -1 )
    {
      index = RHINO_CLAMP( index, -1, path_count );
      if( index == -1 )
        rc = dm.AppendSearchPath( pszFolder );
      else if( dm.InsertSearchPath(index, pszFolder) )
        rc = index;
    }
  }
  return rc;
}