Pie Menu Editor 1.18.7

StroBlend · May 19, 2018, 8:22pm

Hi, I can’t remember how we can give an offset to a popup menu (embedded into a pie) so it doesn’t overlap other popup ?

Maybe you can give a hint inside your website faq or better an option directly under the pie button property so we can find it better later ?

roaoao · May 19, 2018, 10:38pm

Hi, use draw_menu (name, frame=True, dx=0, dy=0) function in Custom tab.

Yes, I’ll add this to faq.

StroBlend · May 20, 2018, 6:19am

Thanks it works perfectly!

StroBlend · May 20, 2018, 12:56pm

however it seems that once I set an offset to my popup it is marked as none in the hierarchy

roaoao · May 20, 2018, 5:45pm

Yep, tree view ignores menus used in Custom tab. I’ll probably add dx and dy options to Menu tab in the next version.

blend_rend · May 21, 2018, 12:20am

How can i make this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slseGsoToHU

emboo2 · May 24, 2018, 2:35pm

I think there are a few ways to do this, but the general steps are:

Add a PME TOOLBAR
Hide the 3D Toolshelf Defaults
Add desired Toolshelf Panels

Here’s a similar example: https://bit.ly/2LqsjEA

The name of this toolbar is called “Toolbar Top”.
You can add more buttons to the toolbar there.
Be sure to add a toolbar above the 3d viewport using the following steps:

1. Split the 3D viewport window horizontally, 
2. Change the new window to a User Preferences window.
3. Minimize this new window's header.

The Blender icon button toggles the default toolshelf tabs.
The plug icon button hides 2 addons. ( Looptools & Oscurart Tools. )
The modifier wrench button has custom panels. ( Modifiers, Set Origin, and Snap. )

I hope this helps.
Good luck. ^^

roaoao · May 24, 2018, 3:30pm

@emboo2, great tools, thanks for sharing
Will add them to my toolbar.

emboo2 · May 24, 2018, 9:59pm

@ Roaoa : You’re welcome. And thank you again for making this awesome add on and updating it so diligently.

If you’re interested, i also use an external script to open PME. Might be handy to have next to the Blender defaults button.

bpy.data.window_managers[“WinMan”].addon_search = “editor”
bpy.ops.wm.addon_expand(module=“pie_menu_editor”)
bpy.ops.pme.userpref_show(tab=“ADDONS”, addon=“pie_menu_editor”)

And, as a side note to anyone who might be interested in bigger toolbars like maya and max for example, you can use an empty window with a popup dialog to get tons of button space. In the example image below there’s like 42. ( and the text is not hidden )

In this example I used the physics section of the properties window.

If you combine this with Mick Hanks’ collapsible window functionally, could be pretty useful.

Leafar · May 25, 2018, 8:41am

Nice idea @emboo2. One question, if the toolbar is closed and you press one of those toolbar top buttons, the toolbar will appear?? or you have to press “T” first?

emboo2 · May 25, 2018, 12:36pm

Hi Leafar. If you’re referring to my 2nd example, the ‘big toolbar’, I haven’t actually created one past the example shown in the image. Nor have I had a chance to experiment with MickHanks’ collapsible window functionality yet, but with PME, I think it’s possible to set it up the way you described. Press T to uncollapse it, use the buttons, then press T to collapse it.

blend_rend · May 25, 2018, 2:21pm

Thanks @emboo2, i try.

StroBlend · May 26, 2018, 6:14pm

Nice idea Emboo!
regarding the big toolbar I don’t get it. I’m unable to have more than two lines of buttons, after that it shows the preferences window. Can you show more about how you get it ?

emboo2 · May 26, 2018, 8:40pm

@ StroBlend: Roaoa posted a screencap with a much better solution after this reply. You can just use a toolbar, then click the PME Settings button, then go to Popup Dialog > then change the max height.

PME > Settings > Popup dialog > Max Height.

Excellent feature

roaoao · May 26, 2018, 9:34pm

@StroBlend, @emboo2, you can change max width and height of the toolbars in PME preferences (video).

joemoehobo · May 27, 2018, 3:10pm

For those who are interested in this addon and enjoy using it, there is now a proposal to add this as an official feature to 2.8. It is worth upvoting

https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/9Bbbbc/fluid-ui-workflows-customizable-and-user-oriented

blend_rend · May 27, 2018, 7:40pm

How can I make this visible which button is active?

An Example:

roaoao · May 27, 2018, 9:50pm

You can use Enum Property to create a tab bar and StackKey to store commands for buttons (video):

On Update slot:

open_menu("Tab Bar Commands", props(menu))

Where open_menu() function calls a slot from the stack key (Tab Bar Commands) by its name (props(menu))

blend_rend · May 30, 2018, 9:41pm

Thanks, it works almost. When i have more than one activatet only the last is visible. With activevated “Multi Select” in PME do not switch over tabs.

And i have a bug? When i expand a subordinated Menu or Dialog or what ever ii becomes this.

location: <unknown location>:-1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2
.79\scripts\addons\pie_menu_editor\preferences.py", line 1756, in execute
    PME_UL_pm_tree.save_state()
  File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2
.79\scripts\addons\pie_menu_editor\preferences.py", line 1255, in save_state
    ensure_ascii=False))
  File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\lib\encodings\cp
1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2192' in position
70: character maps to <undefined>

location: <unknown location>:-1

location: <unknown location>:-1

roaoao · May 31, 2018, 1:39pm

Only the last is visible? What do you mean? Last tab?

Can you show me some screenshot or video?

Thanks, please try to reproduce the bug with this fix (21.4 KB). Extract the file to scripts/addons/pie_menu_editor and restart Blender.