beauty blank space in the menus

[LeonaMorro]

[01:07:20] Grey Mars: Before I fall asleep, one last question. Is there a way to define an empty button with the new menu order stuff? Nonfunctional, just a empty space for layout reasons between other buttons.
[01:11:35] Leona (slmember1): I guess not a Nonfunctional one ... Did you try a button with spaces as the button name?
[01:13:42] Grey Mars: I did not, as I assumed it might cause issues. if I remember right, .change menu order will in fact let you define buttons for cards that don't even exist. I'll experiment tomorrow, see if it will break anything to do that
[01:21:39] Leona (slmember1): Nods .. currently .change menu order don't check if there is a corresponding NC. For me thats no problem. In an earlier version I remember that Howard did check the existent of the corresponding card. There is also an entry for a "Sanity checker plugin" on the issues/ToDo list
[01:24:44] Leona (slmember1): May I add this conversation on the github website as a riminder?
[01:25:47] Grey Mars: Please do, I never remember. Perhaps also mention that a future feature to easily add a beauty blank space in the menus would be appreciated?

[LeonaMorro]

This may also be releated to #32

[HowardBaxton]

In thinking a bit, there is a way to add a blank button to the menu. If .Change Menu Order will pick it up, then this one is covered.

Add a double colon in the NC name: BTN:Submenu::

[HowardBaxton]

The .Change Menu Order doesn't seem to pick up the double colon, I tested this.

[LeonaMorro]

To be honest (without reading a single line of code):
A double colon at the end isn't covered by "naming convention" of a NC.
NCType:Path(separated by a colon):ButtonName
I see some ways that would be covered by the specification:

1. BTN:Submenu: but I guess that this will also not find the way into the menu system. (This would be my favorit, because it straight-line follows the specification)

2. BTN:Submenu: with one or more trailing blanks

3. BTN:Submenu:A_KEYWORDfor example BTN:Submenu:BLANK

[HowardBaxton]

I attempted to use the double colon in .Change Menu Order with no luck. This little egg no longer works. I did however create a button with some not-so-noticable text.

BTN:SEQUENCES:<>
BTN:SEQUENCES:HOLD
BTN:SEQUENCES:--
BTN:SEQUENCES:RESUME
BTN:SEQUENCES:loopall
BTN:SEQUENCES:looplast
BTN:SEQUENCES:loopto

I vote we close this issue.

[LeonaMorro]

Summary: there are ways to add (almost) blank buttons to nPose V2. In nPose V3 you may also use the Button Comments to achieve this (even if both isn't straightforward).