Adobe 65009333 Scripting Guide - Page 68
Working with script menu actions
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Menus Working with script menu actions 68 Working with script menu actions You can use scriptMenuAction to create a new menuAction whose behavior is implemented through the script registered to run when the onInvoke event is triggered. The following script shows how to create a scriptMenuAction and attach it to a menu item (for the complete script, see MakeScriptMenuAction). This script simply displays an alert when the menu item is selected. var mySampleScriptAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Display Message"); var myEventListener = mySampleScriptAction.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", function(){alert("This menu item was added by a script.");}); //If the submenu "Script Menu Action" does not already exist, create it. try{ var mySampleScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item( "Script Menu Action"); mySampleScriptMenu.title; } catch (myError){ var mySampleScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add ("Script Menu Action"); } var mySampleScriptMenuItem = mySampleScriptMenu.menuItems.add(mySampleScriptAction); To remove the menu, submenu, menuItem, and scriptMenuAction created by the above script, run the following script fragment (from the RemoveScriptMenuAction tutorial script): #targetengine "session" var mySampleScriptAction = app.scriptMenuActions.item("Display Message"); mySampleScriptAction.remove(); var mySampleScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item ("Script Menu Action"); mySampleScriptMenu.remove(); You also can remove all scriptMenuAction, as shown in the following script fragment (from the RemoveAllScriptMenuActions tutorial script). This script also removes the menu listings of the scriptMenuAction, but it does not delete any menus or submenus you might have created. #targetengine "session" app.scriptMenuActions.everyItem().remove(); You can create a list of all current scriptMenuActions, as shown in the following script fragment (from the GetScriptMenuActions tutorial script): var myScriptMenuActionNames = app.scriptMenuActions.everyItem().name; //Open a new text file. var myTextFile = File.saveDialog("Save Script Menu Action Names As", undefined); //If the user clicked the Cancel button, the result is null. if(myTextFile != null){ //Open the file with write access. myTextFile.open("w"); for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter < myScriptMenuActionNames.length; myCounter++){ myTextFile.writeln(myScriptMenuActionNames[myCounter]); } myTextFile.close(); } scriptMenuAction also can run scripts during their beforeDisplay event, in which case they are executed before an internal request for the state of the scriptMenuAction (e.g., when the menu item is