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Hitz_M
Inspiring
June 25, 2009
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Add menu after the plug-in has started

  • June 25, 2009
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Hello,

I want to added a menu under 'File' menu after the plug-in has started.

Through the shell example in SDK, i am able to add menus on plug-in startup but cant figure out how to add menus after the plug-in has started.

Is it possible to do so? If yes, then how to do it?

Thanks,

Hitesh

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A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
June 25, 2009

As far as I know, you can add a menu anytime though I suppose it wouldn't shock me if those calls simply didn't function after load. What exactly is the problem you're having -- that the menus don't get added, that the calls fail or that you can't figure out how to get the pieces you need to add menus at runtime post-load?

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Hitz_MAuthor
Inspiring
June 25, 2009

I'm not able to figure out how to add menus at runtime post-load, the suites to be used.

On load the menus are added through pluginStatup but post startup i cant even figure out what caller/interface is used.

Kindly help me with this.

Thanks,

Hitesh

A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
June 25, 2009

The suites should be the same, namely AIMenu.h's AIMenuSuite. The calls are fairly self-explanatory I think, though if you have questions fire away & hopefully I can help.

The only thing that might be tricky is that it wants a reference to your plugin. Typically you'd do that in response to a selector/caller combination that included a message -- the message always has such a reference. If that's the only thing you're missing, the simple answer is to grab that from one of the early messages and stow it in a static variable somewhere so you can use it later; it won't change, so that's perfectly acceptable.

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