Hello there...
I want to launch the extension (menu>Windows>Extensions) using javascript. Please suggest me a way to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Check out this page.
For example, the following line opens the Kuler extension:
app.menuActions.itemByID(134503).invoke();
Thank you Kasyan Servetsky. Thanks for link also. Its working fine. The function for retriving id is taking some time. Is there any way to speed up?
Thanks.
I don't think you can speed up the process: there are more than 3000 menu items.
this script make a tabulated text file with the information of ids and names of all menu items.
items=app.menuActions ;//.everyItem(); info="title\tname\tid\n"; for (t=0;t< app.menuActions.length;t++){ info += items[t].title + "\t" +items[t].name + "\t" + items[t].id +"\n"; } saveTxt(info,"demo.txt") function saveTxt(text,file){ file = new File(file); file.encoding = "UTF-8"; file.open("w"); file.write(text); file.close(); file.execute(); }
VERY bad idea to use ids for launching CS Extensions.
The ids for CS Extensions are trnsient and can be different on different machines.
Your id launches a totally different extension on my machine.
You can try using the menu name instead of the id.
I totally agree with you, Harbs. Thanks for pointing this out.
app.menuActions.itemByName("Kuler").invoke();
Referencing by name is much more reliable.
Of course that assumes there's no duplicate names...
Harbs
