Simple plugin Hello World - add to a menu item

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Hi,

Day two and I’m trying to write a simple plugin for Asprite 1.3. So far so good - managed to install it ok. However, it doesn’t seem to have added to a menu - for that is the plan. This is what I’ve got so far.

function init(plugin)
print("Initializing...")

--

plugin:newMenuGroup {
id = group,
title = "Hello World",
group = "help_menu"
-- group = "edit_menu"
}

--

plugin:newCommand{
id = "HelloWorld",
title = "Simple plugin test",
group = group,
onclick = function()
print("Hello world")
end
}
end

function exit(plugin)
print("Aseprite is closing my plugin")
end

The idea is to simple print “Hello world” when accessing an item in the menu - i’ve tried help and edit.
This might not be possible as you might have to create a button in order to print text. And there doesn’t appear to be any console log if the plugin has installed problems - missing files etc.

I’ve looked at the example here, which starts of fine, but doesn’t have a complete script for newbies.

Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

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You can’t add groups directly to the main menu bar groups. You can only add to groups that are referenced in a command’s group property in the gui.xml. It’s a little hacky.

For example, you can add to the edit_clear group:

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I’ve made an issue report here, hopefully it will be fixed in the future: [Lua API] Some ui groups cannot be added to · Issue #5379 · aseprite/aseprite · GitHub

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