Hi,

I hope I am not bothering (too much) and I admit it is not important (at all), but since the shortcut I found on Petr's site and here on the forum seems to be 7 years old I thought maybe something has changed meanwhile.

To open my snap menu I use this snippet:

var cb = moi.ui.getUIPanel('moi://ui/CommandBar.htm');
moi.ui.showMenu( 'ObjectSnapMenu.htm', cb.document.body.lastChild.lastChild, 2, 0 );

Is it also possible, maybe by firing an UIEvent to open it the same way a mouse click would do? I mean, is there a shortcut that opens it this way:

Hi Strube, it's possible to do that, the script has to dig into the UI to retrieve a reference to the grid snap button and pass that to showMenu() - the structure of the UI changed from v2 to v3 and so that old script only worked to find the button for v2.

Try this instead for v3:

script: /* Show snap menu */ moi.ui.showMenu( 'ObjectSnapMenu.htm', moi.ui.commandBar.document.getElementsByTagName( 'moi:StateButton' )[2], 2, 0 );

- Michael

Wow, nice, I hadn't been able to find the "moi:xxx" elements either.

But, of course, the same had to be tested for the file menu:

moi.ui.showMenu( 'FileMenu.htm', moi.ui.commandBar.document.getElementsByTagName( 'moi:CommandMenuButton' )[0], 2, 0 );

And it looks somewhat unfinished:


Can I perhaps make it look like this:


What I tried is stuff like this:

var elem = moi.ui.commandBar.document.getElementsByTagName( 'moi:CommandMenuButton' )[0];

var evt = new MouseEvent("click", {
    bubbles: true,
    cancelable: true,
    view: window,
});

elem.dispatchEvent(evt);

But it keeps saying "'MouseEvent' ... is not a constructor.", which seems to be a bug in Qt4 Webkit. (Which also happens for "Event".)

Hi Strube,

> Can I perhaps make it look like this:

Sorry no I don't think you can get the little arrow thing to be displayed programmatically - it's built into menu launching buttons that when the button enters the hover state it will show that menu launcher arrow thing above it. I don't know if there is any general way to set the hover state from script, it's not quite the same as triggering event handlers. I think it's only something that gets set in response to actual mouse events.

- Michael

Ok, thanks, Michael.