Customizing
the Go menu
The Help Browser
Go menu contains
useful links to Houdini documentation. This menu can also be customized
with extra links and URLs. This is accomplished using a file called
HelpPaneLinks that contains a list of menu item
names and their associated paths.
1.
Create the HelpPaneLinks File
Create a file
called HelpPaneLinks
(no extensions) in the following location:
$HOME/houdini6/config/
Note:
By default there is no config
directory in $HOME/houdini6
therefore you will have to create one.
Menu items will
be added for each file
houdini6/config/HelpPaneLinks found in the Houdini path.
For example,
you could add site-specific menu items by creating the file: $HSITE/houdini6/config/HelpPaneLinks.
This would create a file that would be shared by everyone in a production
facility who has their $HSITE
variable set to the same location. This will make it much easier
to make site wide internal training documents available from the
Go menu.
2.
Add entries to the Go menu
In the HelpPaneLinks
file, add a line containing the menu item name followed by the corresponding
URL for the menu item. For example, this line will add an items
for Google:
Google http://www.google.com
Note that URL's
may contain houdini variables that get expanded. For example, Houdini
will expand ${HFS} in the following URL:
file://${HFS}/houdini/help/index.html
3.
Add Nested entries to the Go menu
Menu item names
may contain the text "<nest>" to create nested menu
entries. For example, the following menu item name will create a
menu item Go > 3D site >
odForce:
3D Site <nest>od[force]
http://www.odforce.net
4.
Add a Separator to the Go menu
Lines in the
HelpPaneLinks file containing just <sep>
as the menu name (with no associated URL) will add a separator to
the menu.
<sep>
5.
Quit and Re-launch Houdini
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