When I have a mixture of panels and dialogs being opened from the plugin menu, any dialog cannot be opened until a panel is clicked. In my situation, I only have dialogs. I have to use the dropdown menu from the top bar and open one. This opens the associated dialog. The plugin menu docked on the ri…

Sounds like your plugin is not loaded on Ps load and plugins panel can’t actually launch a command. Try adding to your manifest: "host": { "data" : { "loadEvent": "startup" } }, I might be wrong - just guessing But if that helps, I assume this might be a bug, because IMO command…

Dialogs can't be opened until menu used to open one

Photoshop

Karmalakas June 6, 2023, 10:27am 7

I noticed this sometimes happens while developing, but never experienced on production version Maybe another bug

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Dialogs can't be opened until menu used to open one

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