Bug: Plugin menu item gets randomly grayed out

Photoshop
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:question:Did anybody bump into issue where plugin menu item in main menu is grayed out when it should not be? I see this after using “modalDialog” and it seems very random and rare. Sadly it not so rare for every one :smile: The plugin does not have a panel. It has only modalDialog.

And of course with grayed out menu item you are not able to run the feature for the second time.

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@rbrowning and my comments here. Could be related to "loadEvent": "startup", but never experienced issue on prod version - only when loaded via UDT

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But isn’t that about IPC? My problem is… or at least when I experienced it… plugin loaded correctly but after closing the dialog… the menu items of that plugin were grayed out.

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I honestly don’t know the cause. I don’t think I ever related this to dialogs, but the issue itself I think is the same - plugin in the menu randomly gets grayed out :man_shrugging:

Actually, it probably is not related to startup either, because only one of my plugins has this, but I experienced disabled menus on my other plugins too (while developing). Reloading a plugin helps to enable it again

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@Jarda I routinely see some PS menu items greyed around the time a plugin is active. Either the system is modal in the background and only greying out a few menu items (not all), or there is significant lag time from the last modal until the menu is available. I suspect the latter based on other behavior I’ve seen with the menus. The menu items return if you simply wait a little longer after UXP activity before clicking on the menu.

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I was able to reproduce few times and gather more evidence.

  1. Photoshop says it is not in modal state while it happens
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  2. It looks like this. Only plugin menu item is broken and everything else works as expected. I can run other plugins and I can manipulate document.
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  3. When I ask for menu states via batchPlay… it says that menu items are enabled and visible. But that is not what I see in UI.

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  4. When I go into: Edit > Menus and change visibility of some item and click “ok” then menu item gets fixed. And I can use it as before. I think it updates UI back into correct state based on what is stored in PS menuBarInfo. But it fixes only when I change visibility for “Plugin” menu. Like this

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Here is a repository. You can just load plugin from “dist” folder according to video and see what happens. GitHub - jardicc/ps-menu-bug-repro: Repro case for Photoshop menu bug

I hope this will help to solve the problem.

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I’m seeing the same issue. It seems to be triggered when executeAsModal and showModule are called in the same callback.

const {core} = require('photoshop');
const uxp = require('uxp');

uxp.entrypoints.setup({
    plugin: {
        create() {
            console.log("Plugin has been loaded, plugin. create has been triggered.");
        },
        destroy() {
            return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
                console.log("destroy has been triggered.");
                resolve();
            });
        }
    },
    commands: {
        showDialog
    }
});

async function showDialog() {
    await core.executeAsModal(async()=>{},{})
    const dialog = document.getElementById("dialog");
    dialog.showModal();
}