I want to know if a plug-in of the General Plugin type can use .xib?

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I want to know if a plug-in of the General Plugin type can use Xib?How to load it，and how to show it by user NSMenuItem？

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Of cause.

You connect the menu item to a method that then shows the window: https://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/357-Showing-and-hiding-an-NSWindow-programatically

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Sorry, I don’t know much about Object-C yet. Can you help me write an example? Thank you very much

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What part do you nee help with?

The general plugin template has the code for to add the menu.

It even contains a method “showWindow”.

import objc
from GlyphsApp import *
from GlyphsApp.plugins import *

class MYPlugin(GeneralPlugin):
	dialog = objc.IBOutlet()
	def settings(self):
		self.menuName = "My Plugin Name"
		# Load dialog from .nib (without .extension)
		self.loadNib('IBdialog', __file__)

	def start(self):
		newMenuItem = NSMenuItem(self.menuName, self.showWindow_)
		Glyphs.menu[EDIT_MENU].append(newMenuItem)

	def showWindow_(self, sender):
		self.dialog.makeKeyAndOrderFront_(self)

	def __file__(self):
		"""Please leave this method unchanged"""
		return __file__

The dialog outlet has to be connected to the window in the IBdialog.xib.

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Thanks, but when I used it,it caused a crash like this:AttributeError: ‘NSView’ object has no attribute ‘makeKeyAndOrderFront_’
I checked the information.makeKeyAndOrderFront_ was used in NSWindow，I can’t find the NSWindow Class in the xcode,image
How should I solve it?
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You need to build the full dialog as a window, now. Add a window to the .xib, add all the controls you need into it and connect it to the dialog outlet.

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I did as you said, but as soon as it opened the app, the window popped up. I think it popped up only when I clicked on the button on the menu.

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The error message states that self.dialog contains a NSView and not a NSWindow. If you did as I said, it should work. Can you send me the plugin code?

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I’ve replaced Window and it’s displayed correctly. I mean, as soon as I open the software, the dialog that I maked pops up, not when I click on the name of the menu I customize on the menu.

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There is a setting in the window in Xcode: “Visible At Launch”. That has to be disabled.
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I just found it and tested it successfully. Thank you.