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PluginMenu

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A context menu that can be shown in Studio. It displays a list of PluginActions and supports submenus.

PluginMenus must be created using the Plugin/CreatePluginMenu function in order to work as expected.

See also

  • articles/Intro to Plugins, an introductory article to plugin use and development
  • PluginAction, an object that represents a generic performable action in Roblox Studio, with no directly associated Toolbar or Button.
  • Plugin/CreatePluginAction, creates a PluginAction
  • PluginMenu/Title, the text to be displayed when used as a sub menu
  • PluginMenu/Icon, the icon to be displayed when used as a sub menu
  • PluginMenu/AddAction, adds the given action to the menu
  • PluginMenu/AddNewAction, creates a temporary action that is hidden from Studio’s customize shortcuts window
  • PluginMenu/AddMenu, adds the given menu as a separator
  • PluginMenu/AddSeparator, adds a separator between items in the menu
  • PluginMenu/Clear, clears the menu
  • PluginMenu/ShowAsync, shows the menu at the mouse cursor. Yields until either an item is selected or the menu is closed. The selected action fires its Triggered event

Properties

string

Icon

[NotReplicated]

The icon to be displayed when used as a sub menu
string

Title

[NotReplicated]

The text to be displayed when used as a sub menu

Inherited from Instance: Show Hide

bool

Archivable

Determines if an Instance can be cloned using /Instance/Clone or saved to file.
string

ClassName

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A read-only string representing the class this Instance belongs to
int

DataCost

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

The cost of saving the instance using data persistence.
string

Name

A non-unique identifier of the Instance
Instance

Parent

[NotReplicated]

Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance
bool

RobloxLocked

[Hidden]

A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects
bool

archivable

[Hidden] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]
string

className

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Functions

void

AddAction ( Instance action )

Adds the given action to the menu
void

AddMenu ( Instance menu )

Adds the given menu as a separator
Instance

AddNewAction ( string actionId , string text , string icon )

Creates a temporary action that is hidden from Studio’s customize shortcuts window

  • This function creates a temporary action that is hidden from Studio’s customize shortcuts window.

See also

  • articles/Intro to Plugins, an introductory article to plugin use and development
  • PluginAction, an object that represents a generic performable action in Roblox Studio, with no directly associated Toolbar or Button.
  • Plugin/CreatePluginAction, creates a PluginAction
  • PluginMenu/Title, the text to be displayed when used as a sub menu
  • PluginMenu/Icon, the icon to be displayed when used as a sub menu
  • PluginMenu/AddAction, adds the given action to the menu
  • PluginMenu/AddMenu, adds the given menu as a separator
  • PluginMenu/AddSeparator, adds a separator between items in the menu
  • PluginMenu/Clear, clears the menu
  • PluginMenu/ShowAsync, shows the menu at the mouse cursor. Yields until either an item is selected or the menu is closed. The selected action fires its Triggered event
void

AddSeparator ( )

Adds a separator between items in the menu
void

Clear ( )

Clears the menu
Instance

ShowAsync ( )

[Yields]

Shows the menu at the mouse cursor. Yields until either an item is selected or the menu is closed

Inherited from Instance: Show Hide

void

ClearAllChildren ( )

This function destroys all of an Instance’s children.
Instance

Clone ( )

Create a copy of an object and all its descendants, ignoring objects that are not Instance/Archivable|Archivable
void

Destroy ( )

Sets the Instance/Parent property to nil, locks the Instance/Parent property, disconnects all connections and calls Destroy on all children.
Instance

FindFirstAncestor ( string name )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/Name is equal to the given name.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.
Instance

FindFirstChildOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first child of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName|ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChildWhichIsA ( string className , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstDescendant ( string name )

Actor

GetActor ( )

Variant

GetAttribute ( string attribute )

Returns the attribute which has been assigned to the given name
RBXScriptSignal

GetAttributeChangedSignal ( string attribute )

Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes
Dictionary

GetAttributes ( )

Returns a dictionary of string → variant pairs for each of the Instance|Instance’s attributes
Objects

GetChildren ( )

Returns an array containing all of the Instance’s children.
string

GetDebugId ( int scopeLength )

[NotBrowsable]

Returns a coded string of the Instances DebugId used internally by Roblox.
Array

GetDescendants ( )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance
string

GetFullName ( )

Returns a string describing the Instance’s ancestry.
RBXScriptSignal

GetPropertyChangedSignal ( string property )

Get an event that fires when a given property of an object changes.
bool

IsA ( string className )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns true if an Instance’s class matches or inherits from a given class
bool

IsAncestorOf ( Instance descendant )

Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant.
bool

IsDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor.
void

Remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Sets the object’s Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants.
void

SetAttribute ( string attribute , Variant value )

Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value
Instance

WaitForChild ( string childName , double timeOut )

[CustomLuaState] [CanYield]

Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.
Objects

children ( )

[Deprecated]

Returns an array of the object’s children.
Instance

clone ( )

[Deprecated]
void

destroy ( )

[Deprecated]
Instance

findFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

[Deprecated]
Objects

getChildren ( )

[Deprecated]
bool

isA ( string className )

[Deprecated] [CustomLuaState]
bool

isDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

[Deprecated]
void

remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Events

Inherited from Instance: Show Hide

RBXScriptSignal

AncestryChanged ( Instance child , Instance parent )

Fires when the Instance/Parent property of the object or one of its ancestors is changed.
RBXScriptSignal

AttributeChanged ( string attribute )

Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

Changed ( string property )

Fired immediately after a property of an object changes.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildAdded ( Instance child )

Fires when an object is parented to this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildRemoved ( Instance child )

Fires when a child is removed from this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantAdded ( Instance descendant )

Fires when a descendant is added to the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantRemoving ( Instance descendant )

Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed.
RBXScriptSignal

childAdded ( Instance child )

[Deprecated]

Code Samples

Creating a PluginMenu and PluginMenuAction

This code sample visualizes how PluginMenu|PluginMenus and PluginAction|PluginActions behave when created for a Plugin. Outside of this example, you should not parent the plugin or its functional components to the game’s workspace.

In order to work as expected, the code block must but pasted into the command bar, but only once. Consecutive attempts at executing the code in the command bar will result in an error because a plugin cannot create more than one PluginMenu with the same id.

After executing the code, changing the created BoolValue in the game’s workspace via the Explorer window opens the plugin’s menus. Selecting an action from the menus the function connected to the trigger signal.

Example Plugin in Studio Explorer Window

-- This code can be pasted into the command bar, but only once.

local plugin = plugin or getfenv().PluginManager():CreatePlugin()
plugin.Name = "Plugin"
plugin.Parent = workspace

local pluginMenu = plugin:CreatePluginMenu(math.random(), "Test Menu")
pluginMenu.Name = "Test Menu"

pluginMenu:AddNewAction("ActionA", "A", "rbxasset://textures/loading/robloxTiltRed.png")
pluginMenu:AddNewAction("ActionB", "B", "rbxasset://textures/loading/robloxTilt.png")

local subMenu = plugin:CreatePluginMenu(math.random(), "C", "rbxasset://textures/explosion.png")
subMenu.Name = "Sub Menu"

subMenu:AddNewAction("ActionD", "D", "rbxasset://textures/whiteCircle.png")
subMenu:AddNewAction("ActionE", "E", "rbxasset://textures/icon_ROBUX.png")

pluginMenu:AddMenu(subMenu)
pluginMenu:AddSeparator()

pluginMenu:AddNewAction("ActionF", "F", "rbxasset://textures/sparkle.png")

local toggle = Instance.new("BoolValue")
toggle.Name = "TogglePluginMenu"
toggle.Parent = workspace

local function onToggled()
	if toggle.Value then
		toggle.Value = false
		
		local selectedAction = pluginMenu:ShowAsync()
		if selectedAction then
			print("Selected Action:", selectedAction.Text, "with ActionId:", selectedAction.ActionId)
		else
			print("User did not select an action!")
		end
	end
end

toggle.Changed:Connect(onToggled)
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