How to create personalized menu in virtuoso layout editor

Amit,

I should point out that the way that Lawrence suggested doing this is the wrong way to add a banner menu (sorry Lawrence). Adding a pulldown banner menu in a post install trigger is likely to cause trouble (I've seen this happen numerous times), and since there is a userMenuTrigger available (this is the third argument to deRegUserTriggers). In fact it makes it simpler, because all your function has to do is return a list of pulldown menus to add, and does not need to worry itself with inserting them in the banner - that is done by the Design Editor infrastructure. So it would be something like:

procedure(AmitAddMenu(_args)
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AmitAddMenu)

Note this is untested - and in practice you would add code to avoid redefining the pulldown menu each time (e.g. unless(boundp('AmitMenu) ...) but hopefully you get the principle.

Regards,

Andrew.

Amit,

I should point out that the way that Lawrence suggested doing this is the wrong way to add a banner menu (sorry Lawrence). Adding a pulldown banner menu in a post install trigger is likely to cause trouble (I've seen this happen numerous times), and since there is a userMenuTrigger available (this is the third argument to deRegUserTriggers). In fact it makes it simpler, because all your function has to do is return a list of pulldown menus to add, and does not need to worry itself with inserting them in the banner - that is done by the Design Editor infrastructure. So it would be something like:

procedure(AmitAddMenu(_args)
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AmitAddMenu)

Note this is untested - and in practice you would add code to avoid redefining the pulldown menu each time (e.g. unless(boundp('AmitMenu) ...) but hopefully you get the principle.

Regards,

Andrew.