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Menu Commands
As described in the very beginning, you can click a menucmd to pretend to click a SynthEyes main menu item. To list the menu commands, which are slightly cleaned-up versions of what you see in the menus, rules producing a menucmd.
Synthia will continue following your directions immediately after doing the click. If you need to wait for the operation to complete, use click and wait for a
menucmd, for example, to do a file open where you want Synthia to modify the SynthEyes scene after the file has been opened.
You can check or uncheck a menu command, such as show seed paths from SynthEyes's View menu. And there are conditions for whether a menu command is checked or grayed out.
Exercise: for illustration only, determine if it is a stereo shot via the Shot menu.
Action IDs are similar to menu commands, and are used for operations
- that appear on multiple right-click menus and/or control panels,
- that don't have to happen in any particular window or viewport,
- don't require a particular panel to be open to be effective, and
- don't appear on the main menu.
Examples include 3-d move mode and 3-d creation mode for the 3-D viewports.
Exercise: what action id might be handy for a tea party?
Exercise: what does the sentence go! do?
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