mgear menu disappearing issue

[sol-ansano-kim]

Hi Miquel!

I'm looking into a problem where the mgear menu doesn't show up on new Maya installations(In my case it's 2023) and found the results of pm.menu("....", exists=True) to be unreliable.

# first time, returns ui.Menu object named False
pm.menu("any_non_existent_menu_name", exists=True)
# Result: ui.Menu('scriptEditorPanel1Window|scriptEditorPanel1|False')

# second time, returns boolean
pm.menu("any_non_existent_menu_name", exists=True)
# Result: False

This issue is occurring with most people on my team who have newly installed Maya, and it looks like it might be an issue with pymel 1.3.1 (In rare cases, it even returned True or None)
I'm not exactly sure what's causing the problem, but I thought it would be safer to use cmds just to check for menu existence.

[miquelcampos]

Hi @sol-ansano-kim It Has been a long time! I hope you are doing well!

Thanks for the PR! I will merge it now 😄

[sol-ansano-kim]

Thanks, I hope you are doing well too!

[sdsingh357]

i am having the same issue in maya 2023 everything is fine mgear installed properly it shows up on plugin manager but it not appear on the menu

[drirdan]

Hi there, I also have this issue where mGear menu is missing in Maya 2022, and when I run this code I do not get any errors:
import pymel.core
import mgear

If I run this:
from mgear.shifter import guide_manager_gui
guide_manager_gui.show_guide_manager()

The Shift Guide Manager UI Opens and it works. I also checked the Plug-in Manager and mGear is loaded already.

Is there a script I can run from the script editor to bring back the menu, that would be super helpful?