XSI Plugin

Creating XSI plugins in python is extremely easy. This file will add a new menu and menuItem to the main toolbar. You can actually attach a menuItem to many other XSI widgets besides the main toolbar using the RegisterMenu command. Like most UI elements, they are not initialized until they are called the first time.

import win32com.client
from win32com.client import constants

def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ):
 in_reg.Author = ""
 in_reg.Name = "myPlugin"
 in_reg.Email = ""
 in_reg.URL = ""
 in_reg.Major = 1
 in_reg.Minor = 0
 print in_reg.Name, "has been loaded."
 
 in_reg.RegisterMenu(constants.siMenuMainTopLevelID,"MenuTitle",0,0)
 in_reg.RegisterCommand("MenuItem","MenuItem") #command, scriptname
 return 1

def XSIUnloadPlugin( in_reg ):
 print in_reg.Name, "has been unloaded."
 return 1

def MenuTitle_Init( in_ctxt ):
 oMenu = in_ctxt.Source
 oMenu.AddCommandItem("MenuItem","MenuItem") #menuname, command
 return 1

def MenuItem_Init( in_ctxt ):
 oCmd = in_ctxt.Source
 oCmd.Description = ""
 oCmd.ReturnValue = 1
 return 1

def MenuItem_Execute(  ):
 print "Command to Run"
 return 1