In the current state in tuhopuu CVS, it only works for menu items in the 3D View in object mode and mesh edit mode – I’m guessing you’re trying to add a menu item outside of those modes. Adding the capability for other modes is very easy, just time consuming. I’ve been quite busy recently, but hopefully I’ll have some spare hours to add the capabilities for the other modes in the next few days, as well as some new functionality too!

Cheers and thanks for the comment.

Excellent toolbar – but i’m having real trouble getting it working for some reason. I have followed the above instructions but a couple of things are not working;

1, when i click “add to toolbar” on certain buttons nothing happens.

2, when i click on the buttons that i have added to the toolbar nothing happens?

Please help.

Thanks

Dave: Very good ideas there! Now I just need some time and energy to do it, which won’t be until next week :/

I’d like to note that this isn’t some kind of ‘solution to the problem of the menus’, rather the two are complementary, in a kind of symbiotic relationship. This toolbar is really only possible *because* of the previous work done on the menus. It’s easy for people looking at the little picture to criticise (as some people did at the time) saying “oh, the menus are only useful for newbies, they’re too big and slow, blah blah” but there is inherent value in having a comprehensive and well structured system, which we’re now seeing the rewards of here. And this is definitely not the end of the more advanced benefits that the menu system can bring.

In a way, this idea kind of related to the current work with the panels, trying to separate out the functionality more cleanly with a clearer structure behind it all. This isn’t just a short term thing, but also might make future work (i.e. customisable buttons window tabs?) much more feasible.

Anyway!

1) I have a vague idea about how this could be possible, need to test. 2) Yes, so obvious but I completely missed it! Not only would it be good to abbreviate things if that’s what you like, but to also make things clearer – since things in submenus may not make a lot of sense like Select by Type → Mesh would just appear as “Mesh”. Very easy to do, expect this in the next commit. 3) Yep, No matter how hard I try to track down missing menu items, they keep cropping up :) I need to investigate the undo stuff a bit more – the differences between the ‘global’ undo and edit mode undo might be a bit of a pain. 4) Indeed :) I have some preliminary ideas on it, but it’s much harder to implement than think about! It’s on the list though.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

I do have some suggetions tho:

1)It would be great if the toolbar automatically resized itself to accomodate the largest text entry. This would mean that the toolbar only uses the space it needs to and frees up valuable 3d window space.

2) A rename option would be nice. Some of the menu items are a bit heavy on the ole word usage, and it would be nice to trim them down somewhat. This would go nicely with request 1.

3)Some things that should be accessible aren’t. The undo history (alt+U) is a great example. The perfect scenario for me would be to click the undo History button and have the pull down with all editing changes right there in the 3d window. Oh yeah, one other thing….In editmode the undo options are in the menus, but in object mode they aren’t, meaning no undo options can be placed in the object mode toolbar.

4) Click and drag funtionality to move the buttons up and down the toobar.A no brainer and something I’m 100% sure you’ve already considered.

Im aware that this is very beta at the moment, but even now this is proving to be invaluable. My hat goes off to you.

Yeonil

Erik: Nah, there’s still a bit of work to go, then the inevitable politics.

About Python scripts, well Bellorum has posted a testing build for windows, so you can try it yourself :) http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=6293

But the short answer is: yes, it automatically works nicely for scripts that don’t have GUI buttons. Scripts that use the scripts window have trouble – I haven’t investigated why, yet, but I think it might be to do with refreshing the 3D view.

By the way, whatever happened to your new interface? I thought it’d be in 2.37.

Jiri