Zero Touch Custom UI nodemodel

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I am new to WPF and I am trying to create a simple toggle button in Dynamo.The sample Script I refereed is HelloDynamo (https://github.com/teocomi/HelloDynamo) .

I managed to get the node displayed in Dynamo, but currently the toggle doesn’t work , it always display false. I suspect there is a binding issue in WPF.

Node in Dynamo:
TrueFlase

Xaml File:
xaml

Main CS File:

main
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Node View File:
NodeView

Thank you !

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Springs has a button now. Might ask him,
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How are you loading the WPF dlls? They can’t be loaded from within Dynamo. You have to load them from a package folder.

BTW @teocomi just publised a great ZT / WPF guide available in the last few days:

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Thanks for sharing this, I was using the same method as Teocomi to create custom nodes, but something must went wrong on the wpf part which cause the error.

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I solve the issue now, apparently custom Node assemble has to be separated from all the other assembles. I was put it together with some zero touch nodes which enables pop-out windows in dynamo, that somehow causes the problem.

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Hey clover, when you mean separated, do you mean an entirely different solution?

Am playing with the ZeroTouch nodes, though they always disappear when I add in a custom node with in and out ports…

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yes , custom node has to be in the different solution of the zero touch code .

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Yea, thank goodness I stumbled on this thread.

Your work has got me to solve it.

Though I had both in the same solution, the DLL file mattered the most.

This was achieved by 2 steps:

  1. By changing the assembly name of the solution, managed to churn out a DLL with custom nodes, and a separate DLL with zero touch nodes. (csproj file / rightclick project > hit properties option > under applications tab > change assembly name)

  2. edit pkg.json file to add separate node_library parameter with name of other assemble / DLL.

Whilst this may be quite a manual process, next up will be to add a kind of source control setting between 2 branches and managing the .gitignore file to not submit the csproj file which contains the DLL naming toll.

Just wondering if it was the same process on yourside?

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Currently, I just separated Zero Touch to a different Assembly, so zero touch and custom nodes are in the same solution. pkg.json only exist in the custom Node assembly.