plug-in dockable?

[ad libitum]

Is there a way to make the plugin button dockable, in effect menu? I often use silver efex and other plugins, and every time I have to reopen the effects menu.

[LeviFiction]

Yes and no.

Individual plugins cannot be docked somewhere else, but the plugin menu item can be. Plugins, being loaded at startup, are never guaranteed to be there so PSP cannot simply make the assumption of what item will be loaded first and therefore which plugin item the menu refers to until it's been loaded.

So, if you only need to avoid opening Effects and then plugins you can move the Plugins sub-menu anywhere you want using the Customize dialog.

If, however, you specifically want a single plugin to be a button on a toolbar that will require scripts. Scripts, unlike the menu bar, use text names to call specific plugins. Here's how you would do that.

1) Open an image
2) Hit Record on the Script Toolbar
3) Run the plugin you want, settings don't matter here.
4) Save the script.
5) Select the script from the list and click on the "Edit script" button. (Pen over a piece of paper)
6) In the dialog you'll see your plugin listed with the word "Default" in a drop-down in front of it. Change this to "Interactive" to make sure the plugin always runs interactively.
7) Open Customize
8 ) Go to the Bound Scripts tab
9) Bind the script to an icon
10) Drag the bound script to a toolbar.

[JoeB]

Further to LeviFiction's instructions for creating the scripts, binding and moving them, if you have several plugins you access regularly and want to make button scripts for each of them, you can also create a custom toolbar to hold only your plugin bound scripts. Once you have created bound scripts for the plugins, you can create the custom toolbar for them as follows:

1 - Choose View>Customize. The Customize dialog box appears.
2 - Click the Toolbars tab.
3 - Click New. The Toolbar Name dialog box appears.
4 - Type a name for the new toolbar (e.g., Plugins) and click OK. A small, empty toolbar appears, and the new toolbar is added to the Toolbar list. Note: Drag the new toolbar off to the side of the Customize dialog box so you can see it better.
5 - Click the Scripts tab.
6 - In the Bound Scripts window, scroll to a bound script for a plugin and drag it on to the new toolbar.
7 - Right click on that item in the new toolbar and, from the context menu, select whether you want the item to be displayed only as an icon (image), only text, or image and text. I suggest Text Only (the icons aren't very descriptive) and perhaps add separators later if you wish.
8 - Repeat that procedure with each bound plugin script to drag it to the new toolbar and select how it appears. When you have added all you want, you can drag them into your preferred order on the toolbar.
9 - When you are finished adding bound scripts and arranging them on the toolbar, click Close.

[ad libitum]

Thanks so much. Now I'll try and see if I get the result.

[ad libitum]

Great, it works!

[JoeB]

Nice to know that your issue has been solved.