Unimenu

With unimenu you create menus in apps from a config, with only a few lines of code.
https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/unimenu

it has different implementations for each app.
it handles adding to the default Maya menu overwrites the whole menu

unimenu dev notes

Backlinks¶

• my code projects
  • unimenu wiki standardized menu creation across in dcc apps
• unimenu dev notes
  • logic is config -> qt
    config ->class inst -> qt menu
    can now be reused in toolBrowser
    config -> class -> qt buttons/widgets
• challenging to keep documentation updated
  • I’m starting to run into issues with my bigger projects that are organic and change or grow a lot
    big projects need not only code updates, but also documentation updates.
• Unreal - add menu with Python
  • Extracted these functions from unimenu, see source
  • Extracted these functions from unimenu, see source
• unimenu addon
  • unimenu as a Blender addon
• Maya command launchers
  • unimenu
• Maya print menus
  • unimenu uses the build-in methods
• Unreal icons
  • link to sample icon menu unimenu
• my pip packages
  • unimenu 46
• prevent the need for wrapper plugins
  • unimenu, since we launch a simple command from the menu.
• qt unimenu issue
  • In unimenu, I ran into an issue with pyside6 ( Qt), actions are moved from QtWidgets to QtGui, so pyside6 apps didn’t work.
    https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/pyqt5-vs-pyqt6/
• unimenu - replace configs with python module
  • Until now, I was setting up projects like this: