Python, adding icon to new toolbar sub menu?

[mattdleonard]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with adding an icon to a custom sub menu in menu.py.

My code is:

m = sphereToolBar.addMenu("customTools", "customTools.png")
m.addCommand("Draw/AspectGuide", "nuke.createNode(\"AspectGuide\")", icon="AspectGuide.png")

This I understand:
First line defines the new menu (customTools) on my custom toolbar (sphereToolBar) and adds the 'customTools.png' icon to it.
The second line makes a sub menu (Draw) under 'customTools' and adds the gizmo AspectGuide to it. The Gizmo also has a .png file associated to give the gizmo an icon.

My question is, how do I add an icon to my sub menu? In my case 'Draw'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

ps. is there also any way of increasing the size of the menu overall. As an example in the standard Nuke 3D menu the icon / spacing is bigger in the main menu than the 'geometry' sub folder. Just wondered. Really enjoying getting a better understanding of Nuke UI customisation.

[minkey]

Hey Matt,

it's actually very simple. Just like how you defined your menu "CustomTools" and associated an icon to it you need to define what the new sub menu is going to be and assign an icon to it.

so using your code:
m = sphereToolBar.addMenu("customTools", "customTools.png")
m.addCommand("Draw/AspectGuide", "nuke.createNode(\"AspectGuide\")", icon="AspectGuide.png")

to add an icon to " Draw" you will need to add the following:

m = sphereToolBar.addMenu("customTools", "customTools.png")
ma = sphereToolBar.addMenu("customTools/Draw", icon = "Draw.png")
m.addCommand("Draw/AspectGuide", "nuke.createNode(\"AspectGuide\")", icon="AspectGuide.png")


As for the spacing between sub menu and normal menu it is my understanding that the way the GUI is made the sub menu will always have smaller icons than the main menu. I'm sure you could modify it but to be honest I really dont know that many people that use the side menu; Everyone usually use the "TAB" function or the right click on the Node Graph, as it's much easier to access and faster to work with.

Hope that helped.

Cheers,
Farhad

[mattdleonard]

Hi Farhad,

Thank you so much for your help, this is just what I'm looking for.

I'm organising a bunch of gizmos and this is going to be a real help.

Many thanks for your time.

Matt