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Add a Menu Bar Item on P3D using C#

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joaozinho777

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Hello everyone!

I want to add a P3Dv5 Menu Bar on Item (like these) on my C# Program.
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How i proceed?



Kind regards,
 
Ronald

Ronald

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How i proceed?
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1. By also posting this question on the dedicated Prepar3D forums over here:
-https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6307

I want to add a P3Dv5 Menu Bar on Item (like these) on my C# Program.
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2. - What is it exactly what you want to achieve?
- adding an extra, brand new [Main-Menu] item to the main p3D menu?
- adding a sub-menu-entry, into an already existing [Main-Menu] menu?
- option 3,4,n?
 
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joaozinho777

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Thanks for fast reply.
I want a "main menu" like GSX or FSLabs Spotlights on my print and a 2 sub-menus, and when the person clicks on them perform a action.
 
Ronald

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I want a "main menu" like GSX or FSLabs Spotlights on my print and a 2 sub-menus, and when the person clicks on them perform a action.
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Thank for the clarification, I know understand what you are referring too.
1 - What you actually see under / inside the [Add-ons] main_menu bar are the P3D Add-ons that have been installed on that same computer.

2 - So If you want to create your own menu-entry inside that list, you need to find out the following things:
- Where, inside which files does P3D store its own information on which add-ons have been installed
- How do the installers of those add-ons actually work
- Which type of information is being added to the P3D add-ons configuration files
Why? When you start up P3D, if first reads those add-on configuration files, so the program is able to load them into memory
before the simulator shows its User interface and its menus on screen to you as the end_user

3 - Here are some links to get you started digging deeper into how P3D uses which types of configuration files "under-the-hood":
-https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv5/LearningCenter.php - P3D V5 SDK Online Learning Center
-https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv5/sdk/add-ons/add-ons_overview.html - Add-on development section
-https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv5/sdk/add-ons/add-on_packages.html - Creating add-on packages
-https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv5/sdk/add-ons/add-on_configuration_files.html - Add-on configuration file packages
 
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joaozinho777

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Hello…

Thanks for asking, but I think I don’t explained it very well… I already knew how to configure an addon… But I needed examples in C# of how I could be doing this

Kind regards
 
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