adding placeholder menu BEFORE the file menu

[flynn666]

i bought a very wide monitor (samsung chg 90). Everything is absolute fine with it, but because all menus start appear on the most left position the menus are for me too muc on the left side(see attached screenshot). So is there a way to add a "custom menu" (placeholder, with specified width) BERFORE the common FILE MENU so that all menus appear more in the middle of the mainmenubar? Would be a deal if someone could help me - i'm not familar with mel scripting!

sincerly peter

[mspeer]

Hi!

I suggest to use Hotbox as it opens the menu directly at mouse position.

[asztalosdani]

Hi!

A quick and dirty solution would be this:

dummy = PyQt4.QtGui.QMenu('                                                           ')
file_action = menu_bar_widget.actionAt(PyQt4.QtCore.QPoint(10, 1))
menu_bar_widget.insertMenu(file_action, dummy)
dummy.setEnabled(False)

Adjust the length by adding/removing spaces. Run this in a Python script editor.

[flynn666]

...you solution helped me along time ago, but now (on maya 2018) i'm getting the following error:

Error: NameError: file <maya console> line 1: name 'PyQt4' is not defined # 

..i have absolut NO experience with coding, so any idea?

[asztalosdani]

Hi,

replace both PyQt4 occurrences to PySide2.