[OpendTect_Developers] New popup menu insertion

[Tracy Stark]

Raman,

Much thanks!  This works beautifully!

Tracy



On 6/17/13 3:58 AM, "Raman Singh" <raman.singh at dgbes.com> wrote:

>    
> Hi Tracy,
>  
>  
>>  
>> uiMenuItem* itm = mnumgr.procMnu()->find( "My New Menu" );
>>  
>  
>  So far, so good. Now instead of casting 'itm' as uiPopupMenu*, cast it as
> uiPopupItem* and then call the function uiPopupItem::menu() to get the
> corresponding uiPopupMenu& where you can insert your new menu items.
>  
>  Something like:
>  
> uiMenuItem* itm = mnumgr.procMnu()->find( "My New Menu" );
> mDynamicCastGet(uiPopupItem*, popupitm, itm);
> if ( popupitm )
>      popupitm->menu().insertItem( <yournewmenuitem> );
>  
>  
>  I hope this helps.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Raman
>  
>  
>  On 06/15/2013 10:40 PM, Tracy Stark wrote:
>  
>  
>>  
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a plugin that creates a uiPopupMenu in the Processing pulldown menu
>> using:
>>         mnumgr.procMnu()->insertItem( mnu );
>> Where mnu is a uiPopupMenu* that contains a single menu item.
>> 
>> I am trying to create a second plugin that places another menu item into the
>> uiPopupMenu of the previous plugin, if the uiPopupMenu exists.  I am able to
>> determine whether or not the menu exists, but I can't figure out how to add
>> another menu item.
>> 
>> What I am trying to do would be similar to adding the "Tut Tools" menus to
>> "Processing" -> "Create Seismic Output" instead of "Utilities" -> "Tools".
>> 
>> I am able to use
>>     uiMenuItem* itm = mnumgr.procMnu()->find( "My New Menu" );
>> 
>> To return itm that is not null.  I have tried to use
>> 
>> mDynamicCastGet(uiPopupMenu*, mnu2, itm)
>> 
>>  but mnu2 returns as a null pointer.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?  Is what I am trying to do even possible?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tracy
>>  
>> 
>> Tracy J. Stark
>> STARK Research / Stark Reality, Inc.
>> 5021 Sparrows Point Drive
>> Plano, TX   75023
>> (972) 964-9796
>> tstark3 at verizon.net
>>  
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