(UI) Highlight menu items [with green brackets]

1

Hi,

Is it possible to highlight custom menu items with those green brackets?image

2

Yes, you can get QMenu items and dump them for inspection. Did some to custom color menu items in the node editor fiddling around with it. The dump will however be a huge trove of ā€œQMenuItems##ā€ and so on so to find the correct one might be a pain using the same method I used. If you add the menu items yourself with Qt you should however know how to access your items.

3

Damn.

I was hoping to do that without QT as I donā€™t have any experience with that.

Anyway, Thank you!

4

Found the python tab I had the code in when I looked into this, maybe it could help.

import pymel.core as pm      


def recursive_children(qt_object, level=0):
    
    print '  ' * level + type(qt_object).__name__    
    children = qt_object.children()
    
    for child in children:        
        recursive_children(child, level)    
        level += 1
        

def widget_parser(widget):
    """ Recursive listing of a widgets structure, """
    children = widget.children()
    
    for child in children:
        
        print type(child).__name__
    
    
# Get the node editor as a Qt object,
node_editor = pm.getPanel(scriptType='nodeEditorPanel')[0]
node_editor_qt = node_editor.asQtObject()

widget_parser(node_editor_qt)
recursive_children(node_editor_qt)
5

Probably the easiest way to do this is just use the version flag on cmds.menuItem, if the version value == the current running version of Maya, it will highlight. Otherwise it wonā€™t.

If youā€™re using mel, and maya LT, you need to use ltVersion instead.

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6

wow. appreciate the code. iā€™ll look into this. it is due to get some basic qt knowledge at least.

7

Well, thatā€™s embarrasing. Iā€™ve tried using this flag before. Must have done something wrong it seems.

Thank you!!

8

@cur10us you should mark Bobā€™s answer as the ā€˜solutionā€™ so future lurkers know thereā€™s a definitive answerā€¦

10

sorry for late response. i canā€™t seem to find how to mark an answer as the solution

11

OK, I did it. Looks like there was a plugin setting that changed a version ago, hiding the option.