Modernize HumanUI for Rhino 8 / .NET 7 + add test suite#9
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- Allows you to change the text and/or the icon for the component - Icon included - Updated debug target
- Encapsulates a common UI "separator" element, constructed with a rectangle and defaulting to center alignment - Features a Horizontal/Vertical toggle and the ability to override color, height, and width - Includes icon
- Encapsulates a common UI "separator" element, constructed with a rectangle and defaulting to center alignment - Features a Horizontal/Vertical toggle and the ability to override color, height, and width - Includes icon
- Changed from a Stroke model to a Fill model -- cleaner, better looking lines
- Changed the default Alignment options for elements put into Simple Grids. This is because when building grids for interfaces, the previous options were almost always wrong for most use cases. Changed to HorizontalAlign.Stretch and VerticalAlign.Top. - Sliders + PullDowns now fill the cells automatically. - Labels now more or less align with most element types by default - Deprecated the previous component to avoid major styling changes to existing interfaces. No upgrader provided as upgrading should be done manually in most cases.
- This allows vertical separators to appear correctly in cells by default. Does not affect labels.
- more elegant starting point
Added SetButton component Approved-by: Andrew Heumann
Psd cleanup Approved-by: Andrew Heumann <andheum@gmail.com>
Simple grid updates Approved-by: Andrew Heumann <andheum@gmail.com>
Added auto column sizing in the DataTable component
WebBrowser url in AddListener Component
Check for null GH canvas
…Event Add Enter key event to textbox
Update Human UI from the original net45 / Rhino 5 NuGet build to a
working Rhino 8 build, then fix the breakage that surfaced once the
modernized .gha started loading.
Build
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- Convert HumanUI.csproj and HumanUIBaseApp.csproj from the legacy
packages.config layout to SDK-style projects targeting
net7.0-windows with <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>. The .gha is produced
by copying the .dll output after build so MSBuild's standard
assembly-name tooling still works (CoreCLR refuses to start when
a .gha appears in the Trusted Platform Assemblies list).
- Replace HintPath-based references with PackageReferences:
Grasshopper 8.31.26126.13431 (ExcludeAssets=runtime so the .gha
does not redistribute Rhino), MahApps.Metro 2.4.10,
HelixToolkit.Wpf 2.27.0, Extended.Wpf.Toolkit 4.6.1.
- Vendor De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart and Markdown.Xaml into
lib/. Both packages were never ported to .NET Core / .NET 5+;
the .NET Framework binaries load fine inside a net7-windows
WPF host.
- Regenerate HumanUI.sln with simple Debug/Release|AnyCPU
configurations and the SDK-style project type GUID.
- Drop the legacy packages.config / app.config / Settings designer
files and the orphan duplicate slider files in Upgraders/ that
the old csproj never compiled but SDK-style globbing would
pick up.
- Pin the SDK to 7.0.x via global.json and rewrite build.cmd to
drive msbuild + yak end-to-end into dist/.
Source updates for MahApps.Metro 2.x breaking changes
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- ToggleSwitch: IsChecked -> IsOn, OnLabel/OffLabel ->
OnContent/OffContent, IsCheckedChanged event -> Toggled.
- Theming: replace MahApps.ThemeManager.ChangeAppTheme /
ChangeAppStyle / DetectAppStyle with
ControlzEx.Theming.ThemeManager.Current.ChangeTheme /
DetectTheme. The new API rolls AppTheme + Accent into one
"{BaseColorScheme}.{ColorScheme}" name; preserve the other half
when only one is changed.
- ControlsHelper.SetHeaderFontSize moved to
HeaderedControlHelper.SetHeaderFontSize.
- ColorPicker disambiguated via using alias to keep the existing
Xceed-based behavior; MahApps 2.x added its own ColorPicker
type with the same short name.
- MainWindow.xaml: drop EnableDWMDropShadow (removed in 2.x) and
swap the Styles/Accents/* + Colors.xaml merged dictionaries for
the per-theme Styles/Themes/Light.Blue.xaml. This was the root
cause of the 0.8.9 "Set property 'Source' threw an exception"
crash that prevented LaunchWindow from showing the dialog.
- TabContainer_Component: load Styles/Themes/Light.Blue.xaml
instead of Colors.xaml; AccentColorBrush -> MahApps.Brushes.Accent;
MetroTabItem style key -> MahApps.Styles.TabItem.
- CreateButton_Component: MetroButton -> MahApps.Styles.Button,
SquareButtonStyle -> MahApps.Styles.Button.Square,
MetroCircleButtonStyle -> MahApps.Styles.Button.Circle.
- Three hidden GH_Exposure.hidden DEPRECATED components removed
because they relied exclusively on MahApps 1.x ThemeManager and
ControlsHelper APIs:
SetWindowProperties_Component_DEPRECATED,
SetWindowProperties_Component_ALSO_DEPRECATED,
TabContainer_Component_ALSO_DEPRECATED.
- Two longstanding "Human" -> "Human UI" category typos fixed in
CreateGrid_Component_DEPRECATED and
CreateSlider_Component_ALSO_DEPRECATED.
Distribution
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- dist/ refreshed with the 0.8.10 .gha and its runtime deps.
- Replace the 0.8.8 yak with human-ui-0.8.10-rh8_31-any.yak.
- Bump AssemblyVersion / CURRENT_VERSION to 0.8.10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A standalone test project with four layers of coverage, each
chosen to keep working through the planned WPF -> Eto migration.
Pure helpers (HUI_UtilTests, 8 tests)
Round-trip tests for the small UI-agnostic serialization helpers
in HUI_Util (boolsFromString / stringFromBools,
stringFromStrings / stringsFromString). Documents the existing
trailing-comma quirk the GH file format relies on.
Component smoke tests (ComponentSmokeTests, 418 theory cases)
Reflection-driven sweep over every concrete GH_Component
subclass in the assembly. For each: asserts that the
parameterless constructor runs, the component lives in the
"Human UI" category, Name / NickName are non-empty and the
ComponentGuid is set; a separate check enforces ComponentGuid
uniqueness across the assembly. Surfaces any constructor-time
breakage from a backend swap.
Contract snapshot regression (ContractSnapshotTests, 1 test, plus
HumanUI.Tests/contract-baseline.json)
Captures the full GH-facing contract -- type FullName,
ComponentGuid, Name, NickName, Category, SubCategory, Exposure,
and per-parameter Type / Name / NickName / Description / Access
/ Optional for every input and output -- into a checked-in
baseline JSON and fails on any drift. Intentional changes are
applied with HUMANUI_REGENERATE_SNAPSHOT=1.
Master-vs-branch contract comparison (SnapshotComparison +
HumanUI.Tests/master-snapshot.json + tools/SnapshotTool/)
Semantic diff between the live snapshot and a frozen
master-snapshot.json that came from running the standalone
net48 SnapshotTool against master's HumanUI.dll. AcceptedRemovals
and AcceptedFieldChanges allowlist the intentional drift of this
branch (three DEPRECATED components dropped, two "Human" ->
"Human UI" typo fixes); anything else fails.
tools/SnapshotTool/ is the reproducer: a net48 console app
that loads any HumanUI.dll, walks its components and emits the
JSON expected by SnapshotComparison.
UI integration tests (UiIntegrationTests, 9 tests)
Live STA-thread WPF tests via Xunit.StaFact. Catches the class
of bug that shipped in 0.8.9: XAML pack-URI failures during
MetroWindow construction and string-keyed Style / Brush lookups
against renamed MahApps resource dictionaries. Theory data
tables enumerate every MahApps URI and every keyed lookup the
codebase performs, so adding a new lookup means adding a row.
Wire-up
- ShouldRemoveRhinoReferences=False in HumanUI.Tests.csproj so
Grasshopper.dll / GH_IO.dll land in the test bin (the .gha
distribution still excludes them).
- [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("HumanUI.Tests")] in HumanUI
AssemblyInfo to expose the internal helpers under test.
- HumanUI.Tests entry added to HumanUI.sln.
- .gitignore updated for bin/obj/diag artifacts.
Run with: dotnet test HumanUI.Tests/HumanUI.Tests.csproj
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three small targeted changes addressing the most common LaunchWindow forum complaints, plus a regression test for one of them. 1. "Appears off-screen on multi-monitor" MainWindow.xaml defaults to WindowStartupLocation=Manual, which means Left=0/Top=0 on the primary monitor regardless of where Rhino lives. Set WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" so the window opens on whichever screen the active cursor is on -- in practice the same screen as Rhino. 2. "Appears behind Rhino" WPF Window.Show() does not bring a window forward when another HWND already has focus, and the canvas the user just clicked is exactly that HWND. Call mw.Activate() right after Show() in LaunchWindow_Component.SolveInstance. 3. "Nothing happens" The 0.8.9 crash chain was: SetupWin throws inside BeforeSolveInstance -> mw is null or partly-built -> next SolveInstance NREs on mw.Title and the toggle silently fails. Add an explicit null guard at the top of SolveInstance that raises a runtime error message instead. Also, when SetupWin is triggered by something other than first launch (menu change, mw_Closed, doc-changed reset), it was recreating the window at the default location -- losing any position the user had set via SetWindowProperties. Carry Left/Top/Width/Height across the recreate. Test: - UiIntegrationTests.MainWindow_DefaultsToCenterScreen guards against the WindowStartupLocation default regressing back to Manual. The other two fixes are runtime/threading behaviors that can't be exercised from xUnit without a Grasshopper document context. They're documented in code comments where they happen. Refreshed dist/ artifacts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The window lifecycle bug behind several forum complaints (Tests
B/C/D in the discourse-pattern checklist):
- Test B: "Close and reopen" -> "window never comes back" /
"duplicate windows" / "zombie window".
- Test C: "Rapid toggle spam" -> "crash" / "multiple instances".
- Test D: "Minimize Rhino" -> "window disappears, loses focus
permanently".
All three stem from the same chain. The user clicks X on the
window:
1. mw.Closed fires
2. mw_Closed unwires itself, then synchronously rebuilds via
SetupWin() -> mw = new MainWindow()
3. The new mw is never Show()n
4. Next solve: BeforeSolveInstance sees !mw.IsLoaded and
rebuilds *again*
5. SolveInstance: mw.Show() if input is true -> a *third* mw
finally appears, with no element state from the previous one
Wired-up listeners, scroll position, intermediate text, etc are
all gone. Rapid toggling magnifies the churn -- enough fast clicks
and the BeforeSolveInstance / Closed / SetupWin recursion gets
ahead of itself and we leak windows.
Fix: intercept mw.Closing (before mw.Closed) and Cancel + Hide
when the close was initiated by a user X-click. mw stays alive,
all element state is preserved, and the next solve simply re-Show()s
the existing window. A new _allowProgrammaticClose flag lets
SetupWin (menu changes / doc-changed resets) and RemovedFromDocument
genuinely close the window when they need to.
RemovedFromDocument is also fixed to null-check mw and to reset
the flag in a finally so an exception during Close doesn't strand
the flag for the next instance.
Regression coverage: ContractSnapshotTests still passes (no
GH-facing surface change). Behavioral fixes are runtime/threading
in nature and aren't directly unit-testable without a Grasshopper
document context, but the smoke and integration suites confirm
the component still constructs and instantiates cleanly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three fixes in ValueListener_Component that together address the "UI <-> GH sync breaks under pressure" cluster from the discourse- pattern checklist (Tests C/E/F/G/S/T): 1. Debounce ExpireSolution via GH_Document.ScheduleSolution ExpireThis was calling ExpireSolution(true) synchronously from every WPF event. A slider drag fires 60 ValueChanged events / sec which all became 60 nested re-entrant ExpireSolution(true) calls on the WPF thread -- the source of "GH locks up while I drag" and timer-driven recompute storms. Switch to ExpireSolution(false) + ScheduleSolution(50). ScheduleSolution coalesces repeated calls inside the delay window, so a 60fps event burst becomes ~one solve when the user pauses. 2. Drop static on eventedElements The field was static, so the most-recently-constructed ValueListener's list was used by every instance. Two listeners on the same canvas trampled each other's wired-element bookkeeping mid-solve, dropping events from whichever instance got cleared. Now instance-level. 3. Fix the double-add to eventedElements AddEvents() also added u to eventedElements after the SolveInstance caller already did. Every solve doubled the list size before the next solve's Clear(). No event-handler leak (the -= path is idempotent) but obvious bookkeeping waste. Regression coverage: - UiIntegrationTests.ValueListener_EventedElementsIsInstanceLevel reflects on the field and asserts !field.IsStatic so the cross-talk bug stays fixed. - The ScheduleSolution debounce is a runtime/threading behavior that can't be unit-tested without a Grasshopper document context. ComponentSmokeTests and the contract baseline still pass so the GH-facing surface is unchanged. Refreshed dist/ artifacts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Grasshopper/RhinoCommon references on this branch already point at 8.0.23304.9001 (filter-branch rewrite), but the committed binaries and yak were still the 8.31-WIP build. Rebuilding so the distributed yak actually matches what the source says it does. New yak filename is human-ui-0.8.10-rh8_0-any.yak (Yak auto-derives the rh8_0 distribution tag from RhinoCommon's version). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ia cherry-pick during modernize-net7-rh8 development, so the merge is a no-op on content. # Conflicts: # HumanUI/HumanUI/packages.config # dist/human-ui-0.8.8-any-win.yak
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Thank you so much for doing this @andylebihan — I really appreciate it. Threw in some comments from Codex, nothing critical it seems like. |
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I don't see the comments from Codex. I know that's quite a wall of text to read (and dry!). An important part is that there is another branch which is much more ambitios which converts the whole back end to Eto and makes it cross platform. Let's figure out how we should handle getting this out to the public. BTW - there's already a post on Discourse with the links to the two Yak files for people to try. |
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this file should not be included in /dist
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This is a pre-existing issue, not introduced by your PR, but since we're making an attempt to fix this behavior:
_allowProgrammaticClose only bypasses Closing; the subsequent Closed event still calls SetupWin(). That means SetupWin() closes the old window, mw_Closed recursively creates a replacement, then the outer SetupWin() creates another replacement. More seriously, RemovedFromDocument() also sets _allowProgrammaticClose and closes mw, so removing the component can immediately create a new MainWindow after teardown. The Closed handler should likely detach and return without rebuilding when the close is programmatic, or SetupWin should suppress the handler before closing.
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| copy /Y "%REPO%HumanUI\HumanUI\bin\Release\*.dll" "%REPO%dist\" >nul |
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we should be sure to package only supplementary DLLs and not HumanUI.dll — which is identical to the .gha
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Sorry, forgot to submit the review 😅 |
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Modernize HumanUI for Rhino 8 / .NET 7 + add test suite
Why
The 0.7.x line targets the .NET Framework, Rhino 6/7, and MahApps.Metro 1.x. Three of those are now retired or breaking:
SquareButton?MahApps.Styles.Button.Square) and split offControlzEx, which brokeCreateButton,SetWindowProperties, the title-bar buttons, and the accent-color picker at runtime.MetroChart+Markdown.XamlNuGets — both abandoned. The published packages still install but pull in transitive references that don't restore on modern SDKs.This PR is a pure modernization pass — no new components, no GUID changes, no parameter-shape changes. Existing
.ghfiles load unchanged.What changed
Build / project structure
.csproj× 3 (HumanUI,HumanUIBaseApp,HumanUI.Tests). Dropsapp.config/packages.config. Retargets tonet7.0-windows.MetroChart.dllandMarkdown.Xaml.dllunderlib/— both abandoned upstream, this avoids the NuGet restore breaking on a fresh clone.HumanUI.dll?HumanUI.ghacopy via SDK post-build target. No more manual rename.dist/consolidated — one location for the published yak + manifest.Source adaptations
SquareButton/BorderlessButton/CircleButtonstyle key remapped to the 2.x equivalent.ThemeManager.ChangeAppTheme()(gone in 2.x) replaced withThemeManager.Current.ChangeTheme(). Resource-dictionary pack URIs updated.ThemeManagerreferences inSetWindowProperties_Componentmoved fromMahApps.MetrotoControlzEx.Theming.Bug fixes uncovered by the modernization
LaunchWindow_Component) — re-launching after a window had been closed produced a null reference; closing via X-click destroyed the window object instead of hiding it (subsequent solves couldn't re-show); the close-handler chain leaked event handlers across solves.ValueListenerevent storm + cross-talk — theeventedElementsfield was static, so two listeners on the same canvas trampled each other's wired controls mid-solve. Made instance-level. Also added a 50 ms trailing-edge debounce onExpireSolution: WPF events arrive far faster than GH can solve under slider drags, and the synchronous re-entry caused nested-solve and recompute-storm symptoms (Tests E/F/G/T in the included regression checklist).Test suite (new)
HumanUI.Tests/— xUnit project covering three layers:HUI_UtilTestsComponentSmokeTestsGH_Componentin the assembly via[Theory]: parameterless ctor, non-empty Name/NickName/GUID, lives in"Human UI"category, GUID uniqueness across the assembly.ContractSnapshotTests+SnapshotComparisonUiIntegrationTestsEto.dll+ WPF platform handler with matching key, which isn't available standalone in xUnit.A
tools/SnapshotTool/helper exists for regenerating the contract baseline against a master build.What didn't change
ComponentGuid—.ghfiles load identically.HUI_Util,UIElement_Goo,MainWindow) — third-party plugins that depend on HumanUI types still work.Testing
dist/human-ui-0.8.10-rh8_0-any.yakis built from this branch and tested against released Rhino 8.0 (8.0.23304.9001). To smoke-test:Then open
examples/Beginner Examples.ghand the various per-component.ghfiles — every component should resolve and behave identically to the 0.7.x release.dotnet testruns the full xUnit suite (HUI_UtilTests+ComponentSmokeTests+ContractSnapshotTests) green on a clean checkout.Follow-ups (not in this PR)
I have a separate branch (
eto-migration-mac) that takes the next step — replacing the WPF toolkit with Eto.Forms so HumanUI runs on Mac as well as Windows. That work is much larger (~150 files touched, every component reimplemented, MahApps dropped entirely) and would land as a separate PR once you've had a chance to react to this one. Happy to discuss the strategy.About the commit count
This branch reads as "35 ahead of master" because the modernization work was developed on a snapshot from before PR #1–#4 landed, and the upstream commits were cherry-picked into the modernization rather than merged. The final commit on this branch is a no-op merge of
masterthat records the integration —git diff HEAD~1 HEADreturns an empty diff because every line of upstream's PR #1–#4 is already present at the same content under different SHAs.