How to post a new entry to the help menu

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Aloha solid snakes , I am making an updater for blender and I want add “Update Blender” entry to the Help menu. How I do that ?

I know about the menu template and I have searched this forum, I know how to make the menu, my question is how I inject it to the bottom of the Help menu.

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hover over the menu with python tips enabled will show you the type of the menu.
in this case it is INFO_MT_help. then add your drawing function.


bpy.types.INFO_MT_help.append(draw_func)
bpy.types.INFO_MT_help.remove(draw_func)

in the template this is being done in the register/unregister function

3

there is no add_draw method for that object .

AttributeError: type object ‘INFO_MT_help’ has no attribute ‘add_draw’

it contains these methods

append(
as_pointer(
bl_label
bl_rna
draw(
draw_preset(
driver_add(
driver_remove(
get(
id_data
is_property_hidden(
is_property_set(
is_registered
items(
keyframe_delete(
keyframe_insert(
keys(
mro(
path_from_id(
path_menu(
path_resolve(
prepend(
property_unset(
remove(
type_recast(
values(

it could be append() but unfortunately that object is not documented in the API so I don’t know how to use it.

4

sorry, submitted the post too early and edited it afterwards - it is the append method

5

yeah you are awesome thanks it work :slight_smile: