Plugin Menu

[Shando]

Hi all,

Not sure if I've already requested this, but can we have a way to enable & disable menu items in Plugins?

Thanks in advance.

Shando

[SolarPortal]

not sure lol

Enabling and disabling menu items is not as easy in qt as other elements are..... will add to todo list if not already
The last thing that was fixed was the sub editors open and closing.

[Shando]

Hi SP,

I've been digging around looking at how to disable Menu items and came across this potential code:

Looking for the index of the action is not necessarily convenient. If you have built the interface with QtCreator's form editor then you will have an action for each menu item. Their names are based on the text that you first give to the actions. For example if you interactively enter a menu item with title Foo Bar then an action named actionFoo_Bar is created for you. Just type ui->action in the code editor and watch what "name completion" QtCreator will propose.

In such a case I would consider a call like this:

ui->actionFoo_Bar.setEnabled(false);

You can even make the menu item disappear with

ui->actionFoo_Bar.setVisible(false);

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9506614/how-to-gray-out-a-menu-item-in-qt

Looks like it can be done relatively(?) simply by using 'setEnabled' on the "Action"??

HTH

Shando

[SolarPortal]

will have a look asap

[SolarPortal]

Done

Actions were not accounted for, so there may be more, but i have the setEnabled, setDisabled and hideWidget, showWidget working with the menu items This will be available in the next release.

Code: Select all

function main()
   lprint("Test Menu is engaged!");
   
   qt.setDisabled(thisEditor, "actionTest2");
   qt.setDisabled(thisEditor, "actionTest3");
   qt.setEnabled(thisEditor, "actionTest3");
   
   qt.hideWidget(thisEditor, "actionTest1");
end


[Shando]

Cool

[SolarPortal]

Also, just added the ability to add icons to the plugins folder so the menu item in the plugins menu is shown which can use a *.ico or *.png of the same name as the plugin.

You can place plugins in sub folders to keep them more organised. I just have to update the refresh all plugins to make it only refresh the active ones and regen the list, so we can add more plugins without shutting down.
A later job could then be an extension manager list that you can enable / disable certain plugins for the editor or perhaps per scene?

[Shando]

an extension manager list that you can enable / disable certain plugins

Double thumbs up for this one