Hello,

I'm trying to create an easy way to work with a sub-set of the nodes available in the shop context.

For this I had two possible options in mind:

1. Customize the Tab Menu to show only certain nodes, and connect this customized tab menu to a specific hotkey.
   
2. Create a new customized context, which works like the normal shop context, but has restrictions on what nodes can be used there
   

Googling though I'm not finding much in the terms of customizing tab menus / contexts. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

The usual practice is to have a new customized context that filters the operators. Ie, the context node overrides OP_Network::getOperatorFilter() that returns the object that does the filtering.

Thanks for the answer rafal! And how do I go about creating a new customized context? Can I build it in python or do I need to use HDK?

There is an HDK example in $HFS/toolkit/samples/VOP/VOP_CustomContext.C