Adding scripts as menu items in 3DC 2022

[kritskiy.001]

Hello, I'm moving to 2022 and I'm trying to bring my scripts from V4 to 2022.

In V4 I would have a \ExtraMenuItems folder with a bunch of .xmls with MenuPath, MenuItem and Command tags to define the name, menu and the actual script that's going to be used when the command is selected.

I copied the folder to the \Documents\3DCoat\UserPrefs\Scripts\ExtraMenuItems\ and the scripts appear in 2022. However non of them works, I'm getting "Nothing was built in the module" error. If I run the script via Scripts > Run menu they work fine. Should I change anything for the scripts to work from the menus?

Thanks

[Carlosan]

Hello

Better to ask Andrew.

I am shotting in the dark: try edit current room. I guess you have to add it to the text of the menu scripts.

[kritskiy.001]

1 hour ago, Carlosan said:

Hello

Better to ask Andrew.

I am shotting in the dark: try edit current room. I guess you have to add it to the text of the menu scripts.

Thanks, but it seems that editing the menu script won't help: there are no "commands" unless I'm missing something. Everything is being called via menu_item() function... Even the recent scripts list calls for a recent scripts menu item:

 

When you say "Better ask Andrew" do you mean by writing to his email? I imagine he gets 10000000 messages a day lol

Thanks

[Carlosan]

As example i was testing this old V4 script, and it works without troubles

 

[kritskiy.001]

23 minutes ago, Carlosan said:

As example i was testing this old V4 script, and it works without troubles

 

Hm, it doesn't for me. Could you please post the paths you're using? Here are mine:

 

When I run the script:

[Carlosan]

\Documents\3DCoat\UserPrefs\Scripts\ExtraMenuItems

Run first the script via Scripts > Run menu

Then close open 3DC and try again from Menu Edit

This steps works for me

[kritskiy.001]

Aha, works this way, thanks. I have 20 scripts to install so running them one by one for them to work in the menu seems annoying  seems like a feature digress

[kritskiy.001]

Ok got an answer from Andrew: the path in the .xml Command tag should be relative to the 3dc Prefs folder. In V4 it's

<Command>script:Scripts/ExtraMenuItems/scriptName.cpp</Command>

and in 2022 the prefs were moved deeper:

<Command>script:UserPrefs/Scripts/ExtraMenuItems/scriptName.cpp</Command>

 

Edited December 1, 2022 by kritskiy.001