I had the exact same problem when Maya 2009 came out; they changed something
there. To add something to the menus, you have to ensure that it runs after
absolutely everything has initialized. Not even evalDeferred is enough

I ended up using a SelectionChanged scriptJob to add the menuItems, that
runs the first time the user clicks something in Maya.



On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Justin Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone had problems adding things to the main file menu in
> userSetup.py?
>
> I'm adding our own save menu, leaving the rest of the menus intact.  I keep
> getting the following error when maya starts
>
> // Error: file:
> /data/app/cent5_x86_64/Maya/2011/maya/scripts/startup/FileMenu.mel line 341:
> menuItem: Object 'FileMenuRecentFileItems' not found. //
>
>
> My function is defined in userSetup.py
>
> def CISSaveMenu():
>     from MayaUtils.library.maya.python import CISSave
>
>     fileMenu = pm.getMelGlobal('string', 'gMainFileMenu')
>     try:
>         pm.mel.eval("checkMainFileMenu")
>     except:
>         pm.mel.eval("buildFileMenu")
>
>     pm.menu(fileMenu, edit=True, tearOff=False)
>     CISDivider = pm.menuItem('CISSaveDivider', divider=True,
> insertAfter='openFileOptions', parent=fileMenu)
>     CISSaveMenu = pm.menuItem('CISSaveItem', parent=fileMenu, label='CIS
> Save', insertAfter='CISSaveDivider', command=pm.Callback(CISSave.main,
> gui=True))
>     CISSaveIncMenu = pm.menuItem('CISSaveIncItem', parent=fileMenu,
> label='CIS Save +', insertAfter='CISSaveItem',
> command=pm.Callback(CISSave.main, gui=False))
>     pm.menu(fileMenu, edit=True, tearOff=True)
>
>
> And i called later on
>
> from pymel.mayautils import executeDeferred
> executeDeferred(CISSaveMenu)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Also, is there anyway to add option boxes to the menu items?  I was able to
> do this in previous versions, but doesn't seem to be the case in 2011, it
> always adds the option box to the Exit item.
>
> Thanks!
> Justin
>
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