I want to add a single submenu to the content browser holding multiple submenus of my own plugins depending on which are active.
So in each plugin, I run a block of code to add its menu entry using
FMenuBuilder::AddSubMenu
which creates a new submenu, using the ExtensionHook “Plugins”. I expected that all my menus would now be merged inside a single “Plugins” submenu, however the engine created multiple separate “Plugins” submenus.
Why isn’t the ExtensionHook properly working for SubMenus? *Same problem with Sections. The only ExtensionHook which does seem to work properly is on the FExtender::AddMenuExtension, since the menus show up under “Common”.
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Just bumping this once in a while, it’s not an everyday question but I’m sure one of the engine programmers might have a quick solution.
Solved it myself…
ExtensionHook is not meant to be used like this:
Plugin 1:
CommonAsset > PluginSection > Plugin 1
Plugin 2:
CommonAsset > PluginSection > Plugin 2
Instead it should be used directly for plugin 2, also skipping the creation methods for submenus (since a submenu can use the extensionhook as well) so no merging is required.
Plugin 1:
CommonAsset > PluginSection > Plugin 1
Plugin 2:
PluginSection > Plugin 2
You have to check for a extensionhooks existence first or if it does not exist your menu entry might not show up and nothing about it will be logged.
