Accessing Menu Objects from Submenu's

david.

Is there any way to access a submenu's? I know I can access top level menu's via UI.menu( ... ). I've searched, but it appears there is no interface to access submenu's that I've added under the top level.

Dan Rathbun

Sure there is, IF you are the one creating them.

Just save a reference to the submenu instance. A module var works well. Constants can also work:

PluginsTopMenu = UI.menu('plugins') PluginsSubMenuExporters = PluginsTopMenu.add_submenu('Exporters')

david.

Yes, I realized that. I thought there might be a way through the SU UI similar to accessing toolbars that have been created. Apparently, not. Not a big issue.

Dan Rathbun

@david. said:

Yes, I realized that. I thought there might be a way through the SU UI similar to accessing toolbars that have been created. Apparently, not. Not a big issue.

Actually the API lacks a Toolbars collection, which we have wanted. Now with the name method (just added, we can create one, 'on the fly'.)

module SuchandSuch

  Toolbars={}
  ObjectSpace.each_object(UI;;Toolbar) {|tb|
    Toolbars[tb.name]=tb
  }
end

You refer to the just added method each which accesses the buttons ( UI::Command objects,) on a given toolbar.

But ... the Sketchup::Menu class has not yet been updated with Enumerable methods (which should include each_item and each_submenu iterator methods;) nor any name, parent, etc getter methods.

We'll have to cross our fingers for the next MR.