Get children in menu does not work in Maya 2020, but in 2019

[Anonymous]

Hey,

I had a script that gets the children in a menu:

print cmds.menu('mainFileMenu', query = True, itemArray = True)

This works perfectly in Maya 2019 and returns a list with all the children, but in Maya 2020 the result is None, why is this the way?

Can someone please help!

[mspeer]

Hi!

Have you opened the File menu at least once in Maya 2020 before using this command?

Here it works the same as in Maya 2019.

[zewt · Accepted solution]

You can force the menu to be built by running buildFileMenu.  You can see the others in scripts/startup/initMainMenuBar.mel.