1 Reply Latest reply: Apr 30, 2010 4:32 PM by shachar carmi RSS

    How to add menus and submenus to After Effect (AE)

    adobeom Community Member

      Hi,

       

      I am creating a small utility plug-in for After Effect, which has to launch some other applications like Photoshop, notepad etc.

      For doing this, i would like to add menu like File, Edit etc. but it seems like that After Effect doesn't allow adding root menus, it allows only adding menus to some predefined locations (like AEGP_Menu_APPLE,   AEGP_Menu_FILE,   AEGP_Menu_EDIT ....). I am able to add menus to File menu or any other menu using AEGP_InsertMenuCommand(...). But, I am not able to find a way to add a menu and then submenu's to that menu.

       

      I want to create a menu like this:

       

           File     Edit .....

           New

           .....

           .....

           My_launcher_Menu --> Photoshop

                                                 Notepad

                                                 One Note

       

       


      Can any one tell me, how to add menu and submenu to that menu, or inserting root menus like File edit view etc....

        • 1. Re: How to add menus and submenus to After Effect (AE)
          shachar carmi Community Member

          sorry man, but there's no API for doing that. (not through the AE API anyways).

          to achieve that, you'll have to use os level functions, and add menus as you would to any other os window.

          even when you succeed in doing that, there may still be conflicts in os calls for menu commands between AE and your plug-in.

          bottom line:

          it's not impossible, but i haven't heard of anyone successfully doing so.

          :-(