The CuiQuadMenuMgr interface exposes properties and methods for creating and customizing quad menus for plug-ins.

Properties:

    .contexts : Interface array : Read

An array of the currently registered quad menu contexts. These are CuiQuadMenuContext objects.

Methods:

    <Interface>CreateQuadMenuContext <guid>id <string>title
       CreateQuadMenuContext - no automatic redraw after invoked

Creates a new new quad menu with the specified title text and id, and returns it as a CuiQuadMenuContext object.

    <Interface>GetContextById <guid>id
       GetContextById - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the CuiQuadMenuContext with the specified id.

    <Interface>GetMenuById <guid>id
       GetMenuById - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the CuiMenu or CuiDynamicMenu the specified id.

    <Interface>GetQuadMenuById <guid>id
       GetQuadMenuById - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the CuiQuadMenu with the specified id.

    <Interface>GetMenuItemById <guid>id
       GetMenuItemById - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the CuiMenuItem or CuiActionMenuItem with the specified id.

    <boolean>LoadConfiguration <filename>menuFile logMsgsToLogFile:<boolean>
       LoadConfiguration - no automatic redraw after invoked
       logMsgsToLogFile default value: true

Loads the quad menu configuration file specified by menuFile, optionally logging information and error messages to a log file. See GetMessageLogFile() below. This file must be a properly formed .qmnx file.

    <string>GetDefaultConfiguration()
       GetDefaultConfiguration - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the path to the default quad menu configuration file (.qmnx) used by 3ds Max.Typically this is <3dsMaxDir>/UI_LN/CUI/3dsmaxQuads.qmnx.

    <boolean>SetCurrentConfiguration <filename>menuFile logMsgsToLogFile:<boolean>
       SetCurrentConfiguration - no automatic redraw after invoked
       logMsgsToLogFile default value: true

Sets the current quad menu configuration to the specified menuFile, optionally logging information and error messages to a log file. See GetMessageLogFile() below.

    <string>GetCurrentConfiguration()
       GetCurrentConfiguration - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the path to the currently used quad menu configuration file (.qmnx) used by 3ds Max.

    <boolean>CreateLocalizationFile <filename>menuFileName <&string>outputFileName pathOrEmpty:<filename>
       CreateLocalizationFile - no automatic redraw after invoked
       outputFileName is Out parameter
       pathOrEmpty default value: undefined

Generates a localization file for the specified menu configuration menuFileName and saves it to the specified filename (appending the .res suffix), returning the saved file name in the by reference parameter outputFileName. The optional pathOrEmpty parameter can specify a path to save the localization file to.

A localization resource file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Resources>
    <Resource Id="b4779ebb-a6f0-4815-9777-57c01c0b584c" Text="Main Menu Bar"/>
    <Resource Id="eed3eaef-ea24-4342-aacc-9dfd87f9a4f4" Text="&amp;File" LocHint="Menu in: MainMenuBar"/>
...
</Resources>

The ID is the identifier for the menu, menu item, or action, and Text is the title or text to show. This resource file can be translated into multiple languages and the corresponding language version can be loaded automatically according to the 3ds Max language settings.

    <string>GetMessageLogFile()
       GetMessageLogFile - no automatic redraw after invoked

Returns the path to the menu configuration log file.

    <boolean>PopupQuadFromContext <guid>id <HWND>hwnd
       PopupQuadFromContext - no automatic redraw after invoked

Pops up the quad menu with the given id parented to the gui object with the specified hwnd.

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