Add Item In Attribute Rc Menu

[mayapower]

on custom adding attribute we have a RC menu that AFAIK is managed internally by Maya. I am saying about menu that says "Set Key...", "Lock Attribute" etc. Is it possible to add an extra menu item on this RC menu?

Cheers

[ewerybody]

actually YES!

Almost everything you see in Mayas UI is somehow made up by MEL.
This RMB-popUpMenu might be already set up and you could find out its name and just attach a menuItem to it. Or its a proc thats called on popupMenu -postMenuCommand "...". In this case you'd have to overwrite the proc thats called there and creates the menuItems.

concluding: You'd just have to find out whats creating this menu. Browse the scripts of Maya for a label from that menu.

BUT: please don't edit the scripts inside the maya installation! Overwriting from your personal space is ok. I mean.. do what you gotta do. But be aware! :]

[mayapower]

I have searched in all the MEL scripts but didn't find anything responsible for creating that menu. I think it's some internal API stuff.

[mayapower]

I gave a try in this way:

CODE
editorTemplate -beginLayout "Advance" -collapse 1;

editorTemplate -addControl "order1";
popupMenu;
menuItem -label "delete order1" -c ("deleteAttr "+$node_name+".order1");

editorTemplate -addControl "order2";
popupMenu;
menuItem -label "delete order2" -c ("deleteAttr "+$node_name+".order2");

editorTemplate -addControl "order3";
popupMenu;
menuItem -label "delete order3" -c ("deleteAttr "+$node_name+".order3");

editorTemplate -endLayout;

ONLY first menuItem is getting registered and it's working fine, rest of them are not.

[ewerybody]

hmmm... like I said:
"Almost everything you see in Mayas UI is somehow made up by MEL."

Its really like cloaked that darn popupMenu. Its not on the attrFieldSliderGrp, not even on the controls inside. Must be a speciallity of that attrControls.

maybe ... joojaa just suggested a method. Maybe browse all that attr..-controls and put an extra popupmenu to it.:

CODE
for ($i in lsUI -menus)
{
    if (gmatch $i "attr\_hookup\_popup*")
    {
        if (catch(deleteUI $i))
            print ($i + "could not be deleted\n");
        else
            print ($i + "deleted\n");
    }
}
for ($i in lsUI -controls)
{
    if (gmatch $i "attr*")
    {
        string $popup = popupMenu -alt 1 -b 2 -p $i "attr\_hookup\_popup#";
            menuItem -parent $popup -label "bla" -command ("print (\"you clicked : " + $i + "\"\n)");
    }
}

(deletes and) puts a Alt+MMB-popupMenu to controls named attr*
Works for some. But not finished. Just a sketch ;] have no time now.

oh you replied already?...
ehmm .. what does editorTemplate do?

[joojaa]

Soory busy ewerybody,

try one control up or down.

[ewerybody]

me as well
But I'm implementing your idea "inspect controls"/"inspect layouts"-feature into my ui-editor.. Its actually great. But doesn't seem to work everywhere. see those attrControls.. ttyl

[farshid-naderi]

can we add item in this popupMenu or not ? i realy need it too...

[joojaa]

can we add item in this pupupMenu or not ?

Yes, it is however not parctical the way its implemented.

[farshid-naderi]

Can u give me the code for add an item in default attrControls RC menu, plz !? ty

[joojaa]

Its not practical. Menaning you can do it once but then its gone, the menu has poof wanished. Youd need to keep doing it every single time the AE refreshes and you would need to change about 400 lines of code to get it even remotely practical to users.

Furthermore any demo code is session dependent, without about 50 lines of support code and as a matter fo fact ive sold that support code so id need to redo it in a different way. And im not interested. Ben there done that. But im on lookout for a better methid thet might work in maya 2011

[farshid-naderi]

well... tell me when u got better method. ty anyway

i just need add one menu item in the attr menu for open my "FastExpr" window.
but i cant find name of this menu layout.

ty Joojaa .