How do I run send_action for a custom menu item

willanie

Ive read most of the posts describing the built in items available with send_action but how do I do this for a new custom menu item.
Say I installed a custom plugin called NewExtension and one of the menu items is Doit.
What I want is something like
Sketchup.send_action "Plugins/NewExtension/Doit:"

Is that possible? Or is there some other way to execute this custom menu item within a ruby script?

TIG

You cannot access such menu items that way...
However, since you know what command the menu item itself 'runs' you can access that directly in any other script...

Just repeat the same code that is in the menu item...
It depends how your code is constructed...
For example...

cmd = UI::Command.new('NewExtension-Doit'){ NewExtension.new() } UI.menu('Plugins').add_item(cmd)

OR if you are not making a command for a toolbar, perhaps

UI.menu('Plugins').add_item('NewExtension-Doit'){ NewExtension.new() }

If it's a 'Tool' you need to use a different syntax for the last part, like:

Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(NewExtension.new())

willanie

Thanks for the reply Tig.
I don't know what code the menu item runs. I would like to simulate, with a ruby command, that I had clicked on a menu item in this pre-installed custom extension.
Am I missing something in your suggestion?

TIG

You can't use the script's code if it's inside an encrypted RBS, but if the Extension menu/toolbar-maker is in a RB, then you can read it to see what it's doing...

You have to do some detective work...
If we knew this 'secret' extension then we could comment more constructively