Creating custom tools submenu

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I want my scripts go in menu: Tools → My Commands → Draw
instead of
Tools → Scripts → Draw

Is there a way to do it?

window.createAction("YDraw", "Draw", "tools/mycommads")

Does not seem to work.

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You have to add a QMenu to it, here is an example:

    def createActions(self, window):
            action = window.createAction("shapesAndLayers", "Shapes And Layers", "tools/scripts")
            menu = QtWidgets.QMenu("shapesAndLayers", window.qwindow())
            action.setMenu(menu)

            subaction1 = window.createAction("shapesAndLayersFontAdjust", "Adjust Font Sizes...", "tools/scripts/shapesAndLayers")
            subaction1.triggered.connect(self.slotFontAdjust)
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Perfect. Works for me. Thank you!

4

thank you @KnowZero this helped me to clean up my stuff so much.

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I was wondering if you could go deeper in menu?
I was trying to do this:

    def createActions(self, window):
        action = window.createAction("yap", "YAP", "tools")
        menu = QtWidgets.QMenu("yap", window.qwindow())
        action.setMenu(menu)

        action2 = window.createAction("yap/configure", "Configure", "tools/YAP")
        menu2 = QtWidgets.QMenu("yap", window.qwindow())
        action2.setMenu(menu2)

        subaction = window.createAction("YQuickShadingConfigure", "Plugin", "tools/YAP/Configure")
        subaction.triggered.connect(self.dlg.exec)

Though Plugin is under ‘tools/YAP’.
I feel like I am making a silly mistake.

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Well first of all, I would not use “/” for naming the action. Either do things like yapConfigure or yap_configure. Second of all, the path should be “tools/yap”, not “tools/YAP”. yap is the object name, while YAP is the display name.

To demonstrate how I do it for show eraser:

        self.action = window.createAction("shapesAndLayersShowEraser", "Show Eraser Cursor", "tools/scripts/shapesAndLayers")
        
        menu = QtWidgets.QMenu("shapesAndLayersShowEraser", window.qwindow())
        self.action.setMenu(menu)
        

        self.subaction1 = window.createAction("shapesAndLayersShowEraserEnable", "Enable", "tools/scripts/shapesAndLayers/shapesAndLayersShowEraser")
        self.subaction1.setCheckable(True)

        subaction2 = window.createAction("shapesAndLayersShowEraserConfig", "Configure...", "tools/scripts/shapesAndLayers/shapesAndLayersShowEraser")

        
        subaction2.triggered.connect(self.slotOpenConfig)
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