GhComponentConfigurator

POC for an app to configure custom grasshopper components and automating boilerplate code generation to speed up development.

Usage

External App and UI

GhComponentConfigDemo.mp4

Alternative Implementation : Custom GH Components

Current Functionality

• Configure component attributes.
• Configure input and output parameters.
• Generates single component boilerplate.

Future Functionality

• Extend template to include boilerplate DataAccess code to facilitate validation of inputs in SolveInstance().
• Ability to configure multiple components maintaining global variables across components.
• Ability to configure additional menu items.
• Ability to associate an icon to a component generating the appropriate resources and folder structures.

UX/UI Design

A very quick and rough tongue-in-cheek design that references typical Grasshopper component styling :).

The ambition for the UI is to create a variable parameter GH component with custom UI controls to set all necessary properties on the component and parameters.That is, the user defines inputs and outputs by interacting directly with a component just like in Grasshopper; adding input and output parameters, setting their name, right clicking to set type and access, etc.

Turn Grasshopper into a design tool for custom component development.

Contribute

If you want to colaborate reach out! Especially if you want to help designing the custom component UI.