ReaMenus - the better menu set

[pustekuchen]

Originally Posted by CEART

Hi @pustekuchen
Thanks for your attention and reply.
I think you sent the same file, there are no differences between both.

Right, fixed it now.
Thank you for noticing!

[euphor]

hey everybody. anyone out there is able to explain to me how to add a sub-menu in the top menu bar next to the help menu
usually there's the extension submenu, but after i install the Reamenu its lost.

i tried reaper_menu.ini but didnt locate where the information is stored
i found some code here: https://forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=20799 but no idea how to use it..

[nofish]

Hi,

the 'Extensions' menu is still there but ReaMenu renames it to 'Memory'.
You could rename it back to 'Extensions' via Options > Customize menus/toolbars... if you want (edit: In ReaMenu it's Options > Menus/Toolbars...).

[euphor]

Originally Posted by nofish

Hi,

the 'Extensions' menu is still there but ReaMenu renames it to 'Memory'.
You could rename it back to 'Extensions' via Options > Customize menus/toolbars... if you want (edit: In ReaMenu it's Options > Menus/Toolbars...).

Exactly, its not gone, but the Submenu moved:

https://i.imgur.com/1YESmml.jpg

Its the german translation, but it should be clear to understand

[nofish]

Originally Posted by euphor

Exactly, its not gone, but the Submenu moved:

https://i.imgur.com/1YESmml.jpg

Its the german translation, but it should be clear to understand

If you knew this already I don't understand what the actual question is. :P

[euphor]

Originally Posted by nofish

If you knew this already I don't understand what the actual question is. :P

I want the extensions sub menu to be next to the help menu in den top menu bar, not somewhere in a subsub menu

[nofish]

Originally Posted by euphor

I want the extensions sub menu to be next to the help menu in den top menu bar, not somewhere in a subsub menu

As said, ReaMenu just renamed Extensions to Memory (or Speicher in German) and customized it as can be seen here:


You could retitle it back to Extensions.
edit: Or if you don't want the ReaMenu customization at all for the Extensions menu you could reset it alltogether.




The fact that you see the (original) extensions menu appended at the end is because of the 'Include default menu as submenu' option in the Customize menus/toolbars dialog.

[euphor]

Allright, i just put the it on the top under "Speicher"
My wish was to create an additional Sub menu, only for Reapack. But thats satisfying for now. Thank you.

[nofish]

Originally Posted by euphor

My wish was to create an additional Sub menu, only for Reapack.

Ah, afaik that's not possible as extensions can only create the (same instance of the) Extensions menu which is then shared between all extensions (Reapack, SWS..).

Someone may correct me if I'm wrong.

[CEART]

Just for curiosity, why ReaMenus ReaperMenuSet size was 1.31 MB for version 5.31. and successive versions like 5.40 reduce to 202 KB ? some code improvement? Or some features were redesigned?

Also, what it is the last revision? I see around a 5.70, that is?

Thanks.

[sonicman]

Great effort on this project. It's really excellent work!!!! I've installed and it's really neat, tidy and logically functional.

[Chimpscookie]

Originally Posted by sonicman

Great effort on this project. It's really excellent work!!!! I've installed and it's really neat, tidy and logically functional.

Sadly, a lot of new features and functionalities aren't included yet in the latest ReaMenu. I advise that you keep the default menus on the bottom as an option.

[Chimpscookie]

Originally Posted by CEART

Just for curiosity, why ReaMenus ReaperMenuSet size was 1.31 MB for version 5.31. and successive versions like 5.40 reduce to 202 KB ? some code improvement? Or some features were redesigned?

Also, what it is the last revision? I see around a 5.70, that is?

Thanks.

Last revision was when Reaper's version is 5.40(year 2017 wild guess) so a lot of new functionalities aren't included yet. You should keep the default menus as an option on the bottom of every ReaMenu.

[Ericson]

When will there be an update, so we can have all newly added options in Reaper in the menus? For the time being I will keep the default menus as an option at the bottom.

[Rusty Falcon]

Originally Posted by Ericson

When will there be an update, so we can have all newly added options in Reaper in the menus? For the time being I will keep the default menus as an option at the bottom.

I wish the author would chime in on this, maybe train someone else to do the maintenance ?

[Kenny Gioia]

Is it that hard to change it manually?

[nofish]

Originally Posted by Kenny Gioia

Is it that hard to change it manually?

It's just customised menus (could be done directly from within Reaper's menu customisation dialog) so hard in the sense of difficult, no.
But someone would need to follow Reaper's development constantly, update ReaMenus with the new Reaper actions, decide where they should go in ReaMenus etc.
So rather time consuming - yes.

[Kenny Gioia]

Originally Posted by Ericson

When will there be an update, so we can have all newly added options in Reaper in the menus? For the time being I will keep the default menus as an option at the bottom.

Originally Posted by Kenny Gioia

Is it that hard to change it manually?

Originally Posted by nofish

It's just customised menus (could be done directly from within Reaper's menu customisation dialog) so hard in the sense of difficult, no.
But someone would need to follow Reaper's development constantly, update ReaMenus with the new Reaper actions, decide where they should go in ReaMenus etc.
So rather time consuming - yes.

You've just sold me on using the default menus.

[CEART]

I can't quit of ReaMenus, it is very useful to me, but sometimes I have to pass of because it is not updated to the new functions. Is there a way to put the Reaper default menu access at the top of Reamenus instead of at end in bottom? I think it would be the most logical and unobtrusive way.

Sorry if it's already mentioned, where would be in the case?

[RCJacH]

I spent the last few days going through the latest versions of ReaMenus to, essentially, rewrite the whole thing into a more maintainable version with markdown-like syntax. This way, updates can be done with text editor rather than using the toolbar editor in REAPER, which, to be honest, is quite inefficient doing this kind of things.

Repository with README explaining the syntaxes.

Currently I have yet to make any major changes to the actual content, only minor edits and refactors here and there. I'm planning to add stuff from the current default menus, but I fear that I might miss some useful features that were not in the menu (sws or ReaPack actions). So please give suggestions to what content to add, and we can discuss and decide on where and how to add them.

Also, if you find this work useful, please leave a reply or a star on Github as motivation. Thanks

[nofish]

Also a ReaMenus user here.
Cool initiative, thank you!

[RCJacH]

I've added few features from the default menu, and here's v6.0b1 pre-release:
https://github.com/RCJacH/reamenus/releases

I bumped up the major version to follow REAPER's.

[matthias.matthias]

Originally Posted by RCJacH

I've added few features from the default menu, and here's v6.0b1 pre-release:
https://github.com/RCJacH/reamenus/releases

I bumped up the major version to follow REAPER's.

Thanks a lot!

(It's kind of nice to see that I'm not the only one who has gotten used to ReaMenus...)