If you were previously using the Chest Commands plugin for GUIs, you may be able to automatically import them into ElvenideGUI

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Create Menu File

1

Navigate to Folder

Go to the /plugins/ElvenideGUI folder, where all menu files will be stored.

2

Create a Menu File

Create a new YML file in the folder. You can name it whatever you want, but for this example we’ll name it test.yml.

Menu filenames need to be lowercase with no spaces, as they are used in permission checks.

3

Open Menu File

Open the YML file you just created in a text editor of your choice. Editors with syntax highlighting, such as VSCode, are the most convenient.

4

Configure Menu

For now, let’s just add the following basic example to our menu:

test.yml
title: "My First GUI"
rows: 3
open-with-commands:
  - testmenu
icons:
  'icon1':
    material: emerald_block
    x: 5
    y: 2
    name: '<green><bold>Click Me'
    left-click-actions:
      - tell: '<green>You successfully clicked me!'
5

Assign Permissions

Use your permissions plugin to give the following permission to any user or rank that should be able to open the menu you’ve just made, including yourself. Replace test.yml with the name of the file you made, if you chose a different name.

Open Menu Permission
elvenidegui.open.test.yml

You will also want to give yourself and/or your admins the following permission to allow them to reload menus without restarting the server.

Reload Permission
elvenidegui.commands.reload
6

Reload Plugin

If you created the menu while your server was running, use the following command to reload the plugin and enable the new menu:

Reload Command
/elvenidegui reload

If you created the menu while your server was down, simply restarting the server will enable the new menu.

7

Try It Out!

Your new menu is ready to test out! Use the following command to open the menu:

Open Test Menu
/testmenu

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Next Steps

Now that you’ve learned how to make a basic GUI menu, you can start to use the full functionality of ElvenideGUI to customize menus to your liking. There are many different menu settings, icon options, and click actions to play with. You can create any number of new menus by making new YML files in the /plugins/ElvenideGUI folder.

Menu Settings

Configure properties of the full GUI menu

Icon Options

Configure properties of individual item icons

Actions

Set actions that run when you click an icon