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:beetle: Ladybug is an environmental plugin for Grasshopper.
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Suggestion: Add Components Folder #409

Open ayezioro opened 7 years ago

ayezioro commented 7 years ago

Hi, There are already a few components (image viewer, item selector, FalseStartToggle) that need to be located at the components folder. Users usually, without knowing put all components together in the Users folder. My suggestion is to add this folder in the github and maybe in the installation. In addition or alternatively, in the instructions file to specify the files that need to be located in the components folder. Thanks, -A.

MahmoudAbdelRahman commented 7 years ago

Hi. I usually drop them all into grasshopper canvas and each conponent goes automatically to its location. Is this a good practice ?

ayezioro commented 7 years ago

@MahmoudAbdelRahman, Yes. Probably this is one way ... that for my own personal preferences i don't like/use. For ghuser files if i drop on canvas, and i don't uninstall before, i get multiple copies on the tabs. Gha files are fine using the drop way. Usually i select from the zip file the contents and drop on the user folder. -A.

chriswmackey commented 7 years ago

@ayezioro and @MahmoudAbdelRahman , I'd like to hear @mostaphaRoudsari 's thoughts on this before implementing anything as he set up the original structure of putting everything in the userObjects folder. This also means that we will have to revise all of our install instructions that currently say that you should just drag/drop all components onto the canvas but this can be done if it would make things easier from your perspective.

mostaphaRoudsari commented 7 years ago

Thank you @ayezioro for the suggestion. It's a good idea and makes everything cleaner. This is the list of tasks that we need to address if we are going to make this change: