Sub menu

Ignition
1

Hello,

I would just like to ask if creating a sub pop up menu possible and how?

Thank You :smiley:

2

Yes, it is possible through scripting. We have a built-in function, system.gui.createPopupMenu, that will create a popup menu. Usually, people use it for a right click menu but it can be used for multiple purposes.

Here is an example:[code]names = []
funcs = []

names.append(ā€œMenu Item 1ā€)
def doMenuItem1(event):
import system
system.gui.messageBox(ā€œMenu item 1 selectedā€)
funcs.append(doMenuItem1)

menu = system.gui.createPopupMenu(names, funcs)
menu.show(event)[/code]That is for a right click menu that you can put in the mouseReleased event handler. If you want it to popup for a left click on any event do this at the end:menu.show(event, 100, 100)using an x and y.

Here is some more information on the function:

http://www.inductiveautomation.com/support/usermanuals/ignition/system_gui_createpopupmenu.htm

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3

Iā€™m a little new at this, why is names and funcs equal to []?

4

Those lines are just creating new lists (array). Then we can add stuff to the lists through list.append().

5

Oh I see, Iā€™d like to ask if itā€™s also possible to add html codes in ignition?

6

Yes, just add ā€œā€ to the beginning of your strings.

7

oh ok, i have this html code for this button (shown on the picture). what type of component/tool can i paste it on to be able to view that button onto the ignition window?

8

You can use a button or a label component. Just set the text to your html string. It must start with .

9

This ā€œmenu.show(event, x, y)ā€ part should definitely be added into the documentationā€¦ there is no mention that you can use this function for left click actions anywhere!

Just FYI to anyone else who finds this here and is also confused as I was: the x and y are mouse coordinate offsets from the coordinates of the origin of the object that triggered the popup script.