Context menu Submenu

CadFather

Hi, i'm trying to organise my right click menu (mine started to go under the table) - i'm now dealing with multiple submenus

anyone with a quick snippet on multiple submenus code?

this is what i'm trying to achieve

context menu.png

oh, and another question please - is there a way to 'specify' the position of the menu? (eg not at bottom)

Matt666

Hi !
Like your example :

UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu|
  rbm = menu.add_submenu("Ruby Tools ;;")
  sbm = rbm.add_submenu("Rotation")
    sbm.add_item("Around red") { function }
    sbm.add_item("Around green") {function }
    sbm.add_item("Around blue") {function }
  menu.add_item("Erase coplanar Edges") { function }
end

sbm is a submenu of rbm, a submenu of menu...

CadFather

Thanks Matt - will give it a try!

CadFather

one remaining bug - the menu always shows up at the bottom. i tried changing the loading order of the scripts but it doesn't work. it is not even sorted alphabetically..

haynesc

hey guys once youve figured out how this could work ... would it be available as a ruby so that us mer-mortals can chose where we place our ruby scripts ?

CadFather

unfortunately per user options are the most difficult ones because there is no standard we can all rely on.

you can look at the menu items, usually at the bottom of most scripts and try to figure out what they do. then tweak them to suit - but it is a slow process and does not always work. some scripts are scrambled and the menu part of the code is not accessible.

i am working on a new rubyset which will display the scripts in a cleaner fashion both in the plugins menu and in the context one.. hope to finish it sometime in september

RickW

Organizer will allow Plugins menu organization by system folders - make a subfolder in your Plugins folder, then drop the desired .rb files into that subfolder. Organizer will create submenu items having the same name as the folder, and the submenus will contain the ruby scripts you placed there (I skipped a step or two in that description, but that's the basics).

tony bombata

my plugins menu was getting unweildy, so one weekend, i went through my downloaded scripts, did a little tweaking - and came up with this - if its unwieldy, well i don't know how to program .

i copied and pasted scripts with similar functions, relocated their UI functions and tweaked them

question - does organizer work with encrypted scripts?

grouped pipe/tube tools

Grouped Line To Wall Tools

grouped external tools

grouped internal furnishing tool

CadFather

i don't use organiser so not sure of the answer - thanks for sharing, it will be interesting to see your solution

tony bombata

true - that was why i named the scripts building tool 1, 2, 3 etc . .so scripts related to what i refered to as 'building operations' woul reside close to each other.

Matt666

Just one thing I read somewhere on this forum : you can organize manually your plugins menu by renaming all scripts.
Example :
001_SCF toolbars.rb
002_JointPushPull.rb
003_Greyscale.rb
etc etc etc... Bla bla bla

But naturally you have to change name inside the code (in file_loaded), and impossible to change an ecrypted script !

RickW

@tony bombata said:

question - does organizer work with encrypted scripts?

Yes and no. It will load encrypted scripts, but the script's menu location won't change unless the author has adopted the Organizer menu code (it's very easy, but no one seems to want to do it).