[Plugin] ThomThom's Menu

thomthom · 9 May 2010, 13:41

Some plugin users like to organize plugins by author. To address this I have made this little optional plugin which users of my plugins can install.

When installed, my plugins that support this, will put their menus into Plugins -> ThomThom's Plugins.

My existing plugins will need to be updated in order to support this feature, but I hope to get around to do so.

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pilou · 9 May 2010, 14:07

Hurry!
Yes all plugs must be listed by Plugins/Author!
That is mnemonic trick and save many place on the menu plugins!

thomthom · 9 May 2010, 14:15

I personally don't like the Group by Author system - so I opted for a user choice system. In theory other systems can be made.
From now on my plugins will look for a variable $tt_menu which it will attach to if present. If not present it will use the default Tools, Plugins or whatever top menu I choose.

chrisjk · 10 May 2010, 19:46

Thanks for this Thom. I do like the Group by Author system - when it's got a TT stamp (or a TIG, Chris Fulmer, Fredo etc. stamp on it, there is some guarantee of quality!)

Ideally, a menu that could be sorted on the fly in the manner of a booklist - by author, purpose, date etc would be useful especially if it could load/unload plugins as needed..

alz · 12 May 2010, 03:47

This is kinda like an idea I had a couple months ago (but not savvy enough with Ruby yet to try out) --> create an generic_menu.rb which passes in menu variables. Add this (require generic_menu.rb) to any existing plugin (yours or other peoples), then comment out the original plugin's menu. Now call the other script and send over the plugins menu commands and how you'd like to group it (submenu or even a separator).

For example, 5 different plugins from all places on the web. Re-route them where ever you like:

plugins
... Frequent
...... FredoScale
...... Mover2
... Utility
...... Weld
...... Cleanup
... SketchyPhysics2

You'd have to tweak existing plugins, but it'd only use one external script to do the routing. It could be expanded to also influence context menu options or even toolbar or cursor options.

pilou · 12 May 2010, 22:54

Why your ThomThom's Plugins is down page ?
I must scroll down my big list for find it!
It's not possible to put it on the top page?
All script's heros are there !

thomthom · 13 May 2010, 08:51

@unknownuser said:

Why your ThomThom's Plugins is down page ?
I must scroll down my big list for find it!
It's not possible to put it on the top page?
All script's heros are there !

What page?

(p.s. I moved the posts in regard to the TT_Lib to that thread: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23307 )

Dan Rathbun · 13 May 2010, 10:19

@thomthom said:

What page?

He's speaking of the menu page. His menu is so large that it's scrollable, and your submenu appears near the bottom.

You (ThomThom or user) need to rename the script that creates the TT submenu to have a '!' as the first character:
tt_menu.rb rename to !tt_menu.rb
and then it will load as one of the first files from the plugins folder.

pilou · 13 May 2010, 10:34

Thx! I have now 2 possibilities a number and the "!"
(I believe that Thomthom has linked the posts)
See my answer

Edson · 16 Jun 2010, 18:54

thom,

I installed this plugin but all I get in its menu is "website" and "sketchucation". no plugins. and I have tt lib installed. why do you think this is happening?

regards,

thomthom · 16 Jun 2010, 18:59

Edson,
Only a few of my plugin supports this at the moment.
The one that does will add themselves to this menu under the Website and SketchUcation links.

If you don't have any of my plugins that support this then it'll be empty.

Krisidious · 4 Aug 2012, 09:34

This helps me because I sometimes can't remember the name of a tool but I know who made it...