Organising Rubies

Khai

I've noticed that some rubies install into their own submenu in the plugins dropdown.. is this something we can do to organise the plugins? eg put all the edge tools in 1 submenu, all the exporters in another etc?

just a thought..

remus

This plugin makes an attempt at doing that: http://www.smustard.com/script/Organizer

Although it isnt compatible with all plugins.

Khai

aah thank you

Chris Fullmer

You can also do it yourself to a certain extent. The main problem is with the scripts that are encrypted so you can't edit them yourself. And I think Rick's script that Remus linked to is also limited by that same issue as well?

Chris

Jim

I was working on cleaning up and consolidating my own plugin mess earlier today, as a matter of fact. I hope to get all mine into a single sub-menu, along with some help and configuration items for each of them.

Khai

how would I edit the ruby to move into a submenu then? (totally in the dark on this)

RickW

@jim said:

I was working on cleaning up and consolidating my own plugin mess earlier today, as a matter of fact. I hope to get all mine into a single sub-menu, along with some help and configuration items for each of them.

The challenge then becomes trying to remember who wrote that cool plugin that will do what you need.

I think we developers need to get on the same page, whatever that ends up being.

RickW

@chris fullmer said:

The main problem is with the scripts that are encrypted so you can't edit them yourself. And I think Rick's script that Remus linked to is also limited by that same issue as well?

Only to the extent that if the original author didn't make it Organizer-compatible, it won't show up in submenus. Organizer can still load an "organized" .rbs file, but it will show up in the hard-coded menu, and OrganizerEdit (obviously) can't edit it to make it compatible.

Jim

@rickw said:

Only to the extent that if the original author didn't make it Organizer

I have been working at making my plugins compatible. Although Organizer is not a free script, I want to support my users who do use it. Particulary for single-file scripts, it's as easy as:


($submenu || UI.menu('Plugins')).add_item("Menu Text") { command }

And yes it does work if the script is scrambled.