XPopMenu for Houdini

[julca]

Hello,

I'm happy to share with you the script plugin XPopMenu !

Initially developed on Softimage by Reinhard Claus, XPopMenu is a popup menu that you can associate to a hotkey to get under the hand a quick and easy customizable set of tools.

• you can layout your menu using simple method like "addItem", "addTitleItem", "addSeparator" and "addSubMenu"
• If you want you can add icon for each action item (icons collection come from axialis.com with some custom from Reinhard Claus)
• As concrete example, I've joined two bonus tools : one to get distance and an other to get angle.

Quick demo :

 

I Hope you like it !

Cheers

XPopMenu.zip

[julca]

Hello,

Just to post an updated version which work with H16 (which use PySide2 module instead of PySide).

Cheers

XPopMenu_for_H16.zip

[Houdini7]

Cool, thanks. Is there a possibility to extand it, so that it recognizes the context. For example sop context, points selected. In this case context sensitive menus would be possible.

[julca]

Hello @Houdini7,

Yes theoretically it's totally possible. You just need to add a conditionnal "if" bracket on specific menu that follow your mode.

So the only "hard" part is just to determine in python in which mode we are (point, primitive, etc.) .

	if (onPointMode) {
		paramDict = {"uiPath" : demoFolderPath + "getAngle.ui"}
		mySubMenuTool.addItem("Get Angle", demoFolderPath + "getAngle.py", "getAngle", paramDict)
	}

 

[Houdini7]

Nice, will try it out in my spare time. Any idea how I can read the context in python? 

[julca]

You can start with GeometrySelection doc with the "geometryType()" method for example ?

Let me know !