Add a new plugin column

MALAISE

Hi SU team

A small suggestion, why not add a second "plugin" menu in the header ?
: see picture

Thanks

MALAISE

Gaieus

Wow! Where do you have space for modelling!?

remus

I hate to think whatd happen if your toolbars got messed up, as well.

Back on topic, I see where you are coming from, but i think a better solution for managing plugins is needed than simply adding another menu. Perhaps an 'official' version of rick's organiser plugin that would allow you to categorise your plugins.

MALAISE

Thanks for playing attention.

@Gaius : no problems, I draw on a 22'screen, (but of course not all the plugins are used on the same time...)
@Remus : I found that the right lower corner could be use as an anchor. I was a little bit afraid using such a tool, I'm studying your idea

MALAISE

pilou

@unknownuser said:

why not add a second "plugin" menu in the header ?

I believe that the inside system of SU is "closed" for this sot of thing!
It's a pitty because I have 3 "screen" plenty of plugs!
So i will need menu Plug II, and Plug III !

TIG

It's easy enough to add as many sub-menus into 'Plugins' (like RickW's) as you want... then you let the uneditable [compiled] scripts load into the menu at base level and the others as you choose into 1, 2, 3 etc - you just need to set up the sub-menus in an 'early loading' script - mine is called #.rb (which makes $submenu1, $submenu2 etc) and then you edit each script's menu call to load into $submenuX instead of the base level 'Plugins' - I keep mine sorted by...
ConstructionLine Tools [or 'Guides' to Noobies] e.g. 'Grid'
2D Tools e.g. '3-pointRectangle'
3D Tools [Basic] e.g. 'Cylinder', 'Dome'
3D Tools [Complex] e.g. 'StairMaker'
2D Manipulation Tools e.g. 'Weld'
3D Manipulation Tools e.g 'ExtrudePipeAlongLine'
Camera/Image Tools e.g. 'BatchSceneExporter'
Text Tools e.g 'IncrementingNumberText'
Sandbox Tools e.g 'SimplifyContours'
Other Tools e.g. 'Purge', 'ReGlue'

Any compiled ones or other ones I have just downloaded or that I am testing appear in the base-level 'Plugins' menu...

MALAISE

I like the idea you suggested TIG. It just takes a while before arranging all the plugins. In order not to misunderstanding, could you post just a "coded" example?

Thanks

MALAISE