parmmenu sorting

[Magnus Pettersson]

Hello guys,

Im having some trouble with adding custom code to PARMmenu.xml. I get it to show up in the menu and run fine, but i cant seem to get it into the right position in the list.

I have tried all the <insertBefore> and <instertAfter> and <insertAtIndex> combinations but my item is dead stuck last on the rmb parm list.

Here is my code in PARMmenu.xml in ~/houdini12.1 now:

<menuDocument>
<menu>
<scriptItem id="togglePublishPath">
<label>Toggle scratch/publish path</label>
<insertBefore />
<scriptCode><![CDATA[import parmMenu; reload(parmMenu); parmMenu.togglePublishPath(kwargs)]]></scriptCode>
</scriptItem>
</menu>
</menuDocument>[/CODE]

ps. Is there a way to only show this menu item on string/file parms?

[graham]

You need to put your <insertBefore> tag inside of a <modifyItem> tag like so:

<modifyItem><insertBefore>lock_parm</insertBefore></modifyItem>

See $HH/MainMenuMaster for more info.

There's currently no way to add any sort of filtering to the menu. The best you can do is to have the code that is called check against the parm being a string/file and if not, do nothing.

[Magnus Pettersson]

Awesome Graham, I totally missed that <modifyItem> tag!