Hello All, I have been having some trouble with drawing a menu for a user to select an option. class BasicMenu(bpy.types.Menu): def draw(self, context): bone_path = obj.pose.bones["bone-name"] for y, _ in bone_path.items() print(y) #This prints the expe…

Maybe you want to explore Enum properties if you want the user to be able to select items in a list ? https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.props.html#bpy.props.EnumProperty and https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.UILayout.html#bpy.types.UILayout.prop_enum

Ok I will continue to learn about Enum Properties, I have seen those docs before but I have trouble understanding until can see an example that uses it. I knew I could make a list with enum but i don’t understand how to use it for user selections. Is this script a good example of a proper usage? im…

I just started to understand properties, and I find it pretty awkward. But ok, here I do my best to explain it. (So it could be I am rambling). first you can do some imports llke: import bpy from bpy.props import EnumProperty, PointerProperty from bpy.type import Panel, Operator, PropertyGroup A …

There are 2 things i would remark on regarding that specific video (after a quick scrub through) ~ 8:10 in the video when removing the reference to the pointer that line should be at the same level of indentation as the for statement above it. Having it at the indentation level he has shown attempt…

Ok, this is a great breakdown thank you for taking the time. It is the plain English explanation I have needed to understand how this actually works. Thank you and I will report back with my results!

Hey thank you for writing this and walking me thru some of the issues in the video. Also for these links which are really great examples [image] nezumi.blend: Nezumi72/Multifunction_operator: Blender 2.9x example panel utilizing a single operator to perform different functions based on enumerat…

Material slots, for example, use a Menu (that triangle on the right): class MATERIAL_MT_context_menu(Menu): bl_label = "Material Specials" def draw(self, _context): layout = self.layout layout.operator("material.copy", icon='COPYDOWN') layout.operator("object.mater…

Theres also an example of custom getter and setter in a link @nezumi.blend provided so im going that route because in my case it does need to be dynamically set. And you are correct this is ultimately what i needed. Thank again so much for sharing ur knowledge, again will report back with the fini…

this should help you define a dynamic getter https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/10910/dynamic-enumproperty-by-type-of-selection also do note the documentatin advises you to keep a reference to the dynamic enum list otherwise you might experience weird things. One solution is to make it glo…

So I understand how this code snippet works, I actually stumbled across the same stack exchange post when I was trying to make my list dynamic. I was able to make it work this in print statements in the console, but I wasn’t able to draw that list in a dropdown menu with selections. In this example…

Making a dynamic dropdown Menu in a Panel

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So essentially I have my iterable variable in my bone_path I have my Enum prop in my group I am only not understanding the some function to generate the enum items.

I made simple addon example, hope it help you.