How do I create a menu item on the home screen next to the buttons.

Cheba Name

Hello everyone. My English is bad. I use a translator to write this question. Now I want to learn Cinema 4D and Python a little bit. So far, I understand half of the information on the site. But I can't solve the issue in any way. How do I create a drop-down menu on the main screen next to the buttons: "File", "Edit", "Create" and others. Which methods of which class are used for this. The same question about the sub menu. I hope they will help me. I see that writing plugins for Cinema 4D is not difficult. But sometimes I can't find the information I need because of the language barrier.

merkvilson

Create a ".pyp" file in the Plugins directory(my_menu.pyp) and try this example.

import c4d
from c4d import gui

def EnhanceMainMenu():
    mainMenu = gui.GetMenuResource("M_EDITOR")                 
    pluginsMenu = gui.SearchPluginMenuResource()               


    menu = c4d.BaseContainer()                                 
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_SUBTITLE, "My Menu 1")  
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_COMMAND, "PLUGIN_CMD_{}".format(c4d.Ocube))      
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_SEPERATOR, True);             
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_COMMAND, "PLUGIN_CMD_{}".format(c4d.Osphere))     
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_COMMAND, "PLUGIN_CMD_{}".format(c4d.Oplane))     

    submenu = c4d.BaseContainer()
    submenu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_SUBTITLE, "Menu 2 ")
    submenu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_COMMAND, "PLUGIN_CMD_{}".format(c4d.Onull))     
    menu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_SUBMENU, submenu)

    if pluginsMenu: mainMenu.InsDataAfter(c4d.MENURESOURCE_STRING, menu, pluginsMenu)
    else: mainMenu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_STRING, menu)

def PluginMessage(id, data):
    if id==c4d.C4DPL_BUILDMENU:
        EnhanceMainMenu()

merkvilson

Dunhou

And a great example by @ferdinand at Building menus with C4DPL_BUILDMENU in S26+.

Cheba Name

This is the first time I've been on the forums. And I see that there is no like button here. But thank you very much for your answers!

Cheba Name

@merkvilson, You're just a miracle. Thank you very much. This will give me more knowledge in creating a visual menu. It will also allow you to experiment. You're a genius.

i_mazlov

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Cheba Name

@i_mazlov , Do you speak Russian?