Adding items to an existing sub menu

[sdmitch]

In an attempt to get better organized, I was attempting to create a submenu and add items to it using this code

# ------------------  MENU SETUP ---------------------- #
unless $sdm_tools_menu
	$sdm_tools_menu = UI.menu("Plugins").add_submenu("SDM Tools")
end
unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
	$sdm_tools_menu.add_item("Plugin Name") { SDM;;Module_Name.main }
	file_loaded(__FILE__)
end
# ------------------------------------------------------ #

I created a two dummy plugins and loaded them using the Ruby Console with load 'c:/.../dummy1.rb'

I check the plugins menu and the sub menu has been created and the item added.

I repeat the load process for dummy2. I know it loaded because I can execute it from the Ruby Console but it was not added to the sub menu.

To complicate the situation, if I copy the dummy plugins to the Sketchup Plugins folder and start Sketchup, they are both in the sub menu. So what's the difference?

[Jim]

@sdmitch said:

so what's the difference?

Time. The references to the sub-menus are only available for a short time.

Dan can probably tell us why, but that's just how sub-menus currently work. No way around it, unfortunatly.

[sdmitch]

So even though the global variable retains lts value, the entity it references doesn't exist?

[Jim]

@sdmitch said:

So even though the global variable retains lts value, the entity it references doesn't exist?

I don't know the internals. But as yoou noticed, even when the global variable appears to reference a valid menu object, new items are not added after some short amount of time.