Reload Plugin

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to reload a plugin from within the plugin's GUI menu? The plugin is written in c++ and can use python or mel if that helps..

I have tried unloadPlugin/loadPlugin, which comes up with an error that says the plugin is being used so it can't be reloaded. If I force it, Maya crashes. Same thing with unloadPluginWithCheck which I just found in the script editor.

These commands work fine if I run them in the script editor, but if I run them from a menu in my plugin it doesn't work. Maybe there is a workaround?

Thank you!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Oh, I was using a C++ function to reload, so it was saying it couldn't unload the plugin because the plugin still had to be used to unload. I changed it to a mel script and it worked fine. I guess it works because the whole script is sent to Maya. So Maya performs the functions without the plugin.