close menu items? (mel)

[meloncully]

i am sorry, but can you phraise your question a little better? because its kinda hard to understand.

[swag]

ok - i try - u have the maya main menubar some scripts like MJpolyTools goes in there after they called by userSetup.mel
what i will do is kill them from the main menubar after they load
- the best is a toggle so i can turn them on/off

[meloncully]

you might could edit the usersetup.mel or make a mel script that would be stored in shelf(to make a shelf button from mel in the script editor easily, you just highlight the text and middle-click drag to the shelf you want) and have it set to hide/display the menu.


i dont know the mel for this, i just know a kinda psuedo code :p. but you could look in the mel ref manual that came with maya.

[swag]

hehehe - i read the mel ref ... here is what i try

menu -en false -label "MJ Poly Tools 1.3";

and maya says

// Result: MayaWindow|menu36 //

but the menu dont disables!

so - and know iam here and hope someone can help me

[artifish]

hi. what your mel does is: you create a menu that is not enabled and has the label "MJ Poly Tools 1.3". you don't attach it to anything, so it is not visible.
what you want is to edit the state of an existing menu, so you've got to use the edit flag
eg. to disable it: menu - e -en false [nameOfMenuHere];
to kill the menu use this: deleteUI [nameOfMenuHere];

to get the name of the menu (don't use mjPolyTools so I can't help you directly) read the mels that come with it, somewhere in it should be the mel that build the menu and attaches itself to the menu bar (search for something like: menu -label "MJ Poly Tools 1.3" [nameOfMenu]; )

[swag]

Thanks it works :)

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