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Scene context detection

Open tomvanmele opened this issue 10 months ago • 0 comments

def detect_current_context():
    """Chooses an appropriate context depending on available contexts and open instances. with the following priority:
    1. Viewer
    2. Plotter
    3. Rhino / GH - checked explicitly since SceneObjects for both get registered when code is run from either.
    4. Other

    Returns
    -------
    str
        Name of an available context, used as key in :attr:`SceneObject.ITEM_SCENEOBJECT`

    """

    if compas.is_grasshopper():
        return "Grasshopper"
    if compas.is_rhino():
        return "Rhino"
    if compas.is_blender():
        return "Blender"
    other_contexts = [v for v in ITEM_SCENEOBJECT.keys()]
    if other_contexts:
        return other_contexts[0]

    return None

The context detection code defaults to the first context found in ITEM_SCENEOBJECT when it is not detected to be one of Blender, Grasshopper, Rhino. Currently, on my system this is "Viewer", but the reason for this is random.

To Reproduce

scene = Scene()
meshobj = scene.add(mesh)

The type of meshobj will be the one registered for the viewer.

Expected behavior

The default context should be None, and the type of meshobj should be the base type.

tomvanmele avatar May 29 '25 07:05 tomvanmele