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Adding menu to maestro

dragank

Hi all.

I am using IC6.1.8-64b.500.10

Here is procedure that i am trying to use for adding new menu item to maestro:

procedure( InternalMaestroAddMenu(@rest args)
let( (item11 item12 item21 item22)
item11 =
hiCreateMenuItem(
?name 'item11
?itemText "Corners plotter"
?callback "setupSignalPlotter()"
)

item12 =
hiCreateMenuItem(
?name 'item12
?itemText "Monte Carlo plotter"
?callback "setupMonteCarloPlotter()"
)

item21 =
hiCreateMenuItem(
?name 'item21
?itemText "Sample outputs"
?callback "setupSampleOutputs()"
)

item22 =
hiCreateMenuItem(
?name 'item22
?itemText "MAV postprocessing"
?callback "setupMAVFilterOutputs()"
)

item23 =
hiCreateMenuItem(
?name 'item23
?itemText "CoI postprocessing"
?callback "setupCoIFilterOutputs()"
)

samplerMenu = hiCreatePulldownMenu(
'samplerMenu
"Sampling"
list(
item21
item22
item23
)
)
plotterMenu = hiCreatePulldownMenu(
'plotterMenu
"Plotting"
list(
item11
item12
)
)

sliderPlot = hiCreateSliderMenuItem(
?name 'sliderPlot
?itemText "Plotters"
?subMenu plotterMenu
)
sliderSample = hiCreateSliderMenuItem(
?name 'sliderSample
?itemText "Sample"
?subMenu samplerMenu
)

mainAddonMenu = hiCreatePulldownMenu(
'mainAddonMenu
"Sampling and Plotters"
list( sliderSample sliderPlot )
)

hiInsertBannerMenu(hiGetCurrentWindow() mainAddonMenu 0)
)
)

So far I am getting error in CIW

*Error* append: argument #1 should be a list or another acceptable type - t

And there is only this new menu item. Common items are not present.

Should this procedure be written differently?

Thank you in advance

Dragan

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  • Hi Dragan,

    I don't see any call to append() in this code above - maybe it's in one of your callbacks.
    The error message itself is pretty clear, the first argument of append (and also the second one) must be a list which in your case it obviously isn't.

    Max

  • in reply to mbracht

    Only callbacks i have are for adding to menu:

    deRegUserTriggers("maestro" nil 'InternalMaestroAddMenu)
    deRegUserTriggers("explorer" nil 'InternalMaestroAddMenu)
    deRegUserTriggers("adexl" nil 'InternalMaestroAddMenu)

  • in reply to dragank

    Your menu callback is incorrect. User menu callbacks (registered with deRegUserTriggers) should not add the menus themselves. Instead they should return a list of pulldown menus and "de" (Design Editor) takes care of adding them into the banner menus for you.

    So replace the line:

    hiInsertBannerMenu(hiGetCurrentWindow() mainAddonMenu 0)

    with:

    list(mainAddonMenu)

    The error is because it's trying to add the return value of hiInsertBannerMenu - which isn't a list - and hence the error.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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  • in reply to dragank

    Your menu callback is incorrect. User menu callbacks (registered with deRegUserTriggers) should not add the menus themselves. Instead they should return a list of pulldown menus and "de" (Design Editor) takes care of adding them into the banner menus for you.

    So replace the line:

    hiInsertBannerMenu(hiGetCurrentWindow() mainAddonMenu 0)

    with:

    list(mainAddonMenu)

    The error is because it's trying to add the return value of hiInsertBannerMenu - which isn't a list - and hence the error.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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