Plugin Top Menu Item

Grasshopper Developer
1

Hello,

Anybody knows if it’s possible to add a new top menu item like that:
GHPluginMenu

Tanks.

2

Yes, Metahopper and Pancake have menus there.

3

You can access Grasshopper.Instances.DocumentEditor and iterate over its controls. Do note that plug-ins are often loaded before the editor window is instantiated.

4

Thanks, it worked fine!

I’m trying to change the colors and it’s ok for regular winforms or inherited components, but I have problems to change it for the tabs:

2019-11-18_10-51-07

I realized that the GH_RibbonTab is rendered by GH_RibbonPainter inside of Gh_RibbonTab but its using SystemColors.WindowText.

Is there a change to pass the color from outside?

Thanks

5

no worries I’ll set them by reflection

6

I’m trying to add an extra menu to the grasshopper main menu.
The problem I’m running into is that the menu doesn’t appear in grasshopper.

My sample code:

        MenuItem newMenuItem = new MenuItem();

        newMenuItem.Text = "Name";
        newMenuItem.MenuItems.AddRange(new MenuItem[]
        {
            new MenuItem()
            {
                Text = "Save/Close",
            },
        });
        MainMenu grasshopperMainMenu = Grasshopper.Instances.DocumentEditor.Menu.GetMainMenu();


        grasshopperMainMenu.MenuItems.Add(newMenuItem);

The code is placed in the constructor (GH_AssemblyInfo base class). I read that you mentioned that plugins are usually loaded before the editor is instantiated.
Where can I best place this code, so that the menu item is visible in grasshopper?