topic Multiple addons under common sub-menu in Archicad C++ API

Multiple addons under common sub-menu

dushyant — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:25:50 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way to have multiple addons under the same sub-menu in a user-defined menu?

For example:
MainCustomMenu > SubMenuABC > Addon1

and another addon:
MainCustomMenu > SubMenuABC > Addon2

For me Archicad creates two sub-menus of the same name "SubMenuABC" for each of the addons.

The menu resource ID in both the addons is the same.

Thank you.

Re: Multiple addons under common sub-menu

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:29:32 GMT

Addons can share a common parent menu, but the menu hierarchy can't be more than 3 levels deep. For example, all the Ci Tools add-ons are clustered under a common "Ci Tools" menu:

The resources are written like this:

'STR#' 32500 "Menu items" { /*[ ]*/ "CI Tools" /*[ ]*/ "Metadata" /*[ 1]*/"Show metadata palette…^E3^EL^ES^ED^EE^EI^EW^ET^32500" /*[ 2]*/"-" /*[ 3]*/"Metadata Help^ED^EW^EE^EI^ES^32501" }

Keep in mind that the menu hierarchy can't be more than 3 levels deep.

Re: Multiple addons under common sub-menu

dushyant — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:02:54 GMT

Thanks for your reply @Ralph Wessel !
It seems what I was looking for is the MenuFlag option: MenuFlag_InsertIntoSame in ACAPI_MenuItem_RegisterMenu().