Improving the context menu - smart context menu

[ABeton]

Continuation of a discussion in this thread https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 1&start=90.

My idea is to have a context menu depend on the type of the object that is selected. So for example if a line is selected, I would like to have a context menu with commands like: edit, move, rotate, stretch and maybe a couple of more. And if I select a wall or something else I would have a different context menu with some other commands. Something similar to the context menu that is used in sketcher, but with only five or six commands avalible. So it would be something like "If line is selected when you right click somewhere in the viewport you get a coressponding context menu.".

My end goal would be to have something like this in FreeCAD.

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I looked into the code that vocx mentioned

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    def ContextMenu(self, recipient):
        if recipient == "View":
            if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand is None:
                if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList + self.modList)
                    self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)
                else:
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList)
            else:
                if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand.featureName == "Line":
                    self.appendContextMenu("", self.lineList)
        else:
            if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)

I added a new menu, in the Draft, Init Gui.

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self.linemodList = ["Draft_Edit", "Draft_Move", "Draft_Rotate", "Draft_Upgrade",
                      "Draft_Downgrade", "Draft_Stretch"]

and than appended it to the existing context menu.

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def ContextMenu(self, recipient):
        if recipient == "View":
            if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand is None:
                if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList + self.modList)
                    self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)
                    self.appendContextMenu("Modify", self.linemodList)
                else:
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList)
            else:
                if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand.featureName == "Line":
                    self.appendContextMenu("", self.lineList)
        else:
            if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)

My question is how would I make this context menu change depending on the object that is curently selected, something like

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def ContextMenu(self, recipient):
        if recipient == "View":
            if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand is None:
                if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList + self.modList)
                    self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)
                    if "selection.type" == "wire object or similar":
                         self.appendContextMenu("Modify", self.linemodList)
                else:
                    self.appendContextMenu("Draft", self.cmdList)
            else:
                if FreeCAD.activeDraftCommand.featureName == "Line":
                    self.appendContextMenu("", self.lineList)
        else:
            if FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
                self.appendContextMenu("Utilities", self.treecmdList)

I hope can help me with this.

[ABeton]

And would it also be possible to create a context menu with two windows, one window with the existing context menu, and the other window with only icons without text, again like in the picture bellow?

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[Kunda1]

Bumping this thread. Any script enthusiasts want to weigh in?