: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 …

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.

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 di…

@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 beh…

I was able to reproduce few times and gather more evidence. Photoshop says it is not in modal state while it happens [image] 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. [image] When I as…

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.

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.…

Bug: Plugin menu item gets randomly grayed out

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Karmalakas September 26, 2023, 11:52am 2

@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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Bug: Plugin menu item gets randomly grayed out

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