Hi Pritish
Building plugins is one area I’m not familiar with. I can see that our Houdini startup code is doing something similar:
- https://github.com/shotgunsoftware/tk-houdini/blob/master/plugins/basic/python2.7libs/pythonrc.py
- https://github.com/shotgunsoftware/tk-houdini/blob/master/plugins/basic/python/tk_houdini_basic/plugin_bootstrap.py
Maybe there might be some clues there?
I did try running some bootstrap code in the Houdini python console, and I got the same result as you, where the engine appears to start, and I can grab a handle to it, however, no menu appears.
I’ll try and get an engineers input to see if they can suggest anything.