Through the Interface

Floppy Friday #25 (ven., 16 avril 2021)
This week’s Floppy Friday is once again floppiless, as we take a new old Atari CX 2600 A – with its gorgeous wood panelling – for a spin: We focus on space-themed video games – which were apparently a favourite for early video game designers, as the emptiness of space lent itself to more limited hardware platforms – looking at Space Invaders, Asteroids, Phoenix and Defender. (In case people are interested, we looked at Space Invaders and Asteroids on the C6 in Floppy Friday #14 and we saw some games on the Atari 2600 Jr in Floppy Friday #20.)...
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Creating additional documentation for Space Analysis in Dynamo 2.11 (Wed, 14 Apr 2021)
I mentioned last week that Dynamo 2.11 allows package owners to add additional documentation for their nodes via the enhanced Documentation Browser. I decided to give it a try, and then decided to test the possibilities around automating the process. Here’s the idea: the Space Analysis package comes with 15 different samples showing how to use its various nodes. These are all hidden away in the %appdata%\Dynamo\Dynamo [Core|Revit]\2.x\packages\SpaceAnalysis\extra folder, so lots of people don’t know they exist. What if the Documentation Browser told you about the samples that use a particular node when you pull up its help? Here’s...
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