How to create a Context Menu submenu?

That's one of those opinion things.

IMHO if all files do not satisfy the requirements then you must do one of 2 things:

Disable - so the action can't happen
Warn - (perhaps with a do not show again checkbox) that some of the files can not be processed.

getBridgeFiles does the warning thing (with the checkbox).

Bob
Adobe WAS Scripting

Hi Bob, thanks for that. I like the idea of presenting menu items on the basis of what is selected but how does it deal with multiple selections some of which belong and others which do not - I guess if any do not belong to the accepted extensions then the item should not appear in the menu.

Andrew

Here ya go, Andrew:

Bob
Adobe WAS Scripting

#target bridge

ContextDemo = {};

ContextDemo.handler = function( menu ) {
alert( menu.text );
}
try {
MenuElement.create( "menu", "Menu", "at the end of Thumbnail", "cMenu" );
ContextDemo.m1 = MenuElement.create( "command", "Command 1", "at the end of cMenu", "cMenu/sub1" );
ContextDemo.m1.onSelect = ContextDemo.handler;
ContextDemo.m2 = MenuElement.create( "command", "Command 2", "at the end of cMenu", "cMenu/sub2" );
ContextDemo.m2.onSelect = ContextDemo.handler;
} catch ( e ) {
}

// now let's get tricky
// disabling a script generated context menu makes it disappear from the context menu

SelectExample = {}
SelectExample.menuSelected = function() {
alert( "You selected " + app.document.selections[ 0 ].name );
}
SelectExample.menu = undefined;
SelectExample.onSelectHandler = function( event ) {
if ( event.object.constructor.name == "Thumbnail" ) {
if ( event.type == "select" ) {
// event.object is the Thumbnail object that was selected
if ( event.object.isFileType( "jpg,jpeg,psd,tif,tiff" ) ) { // enable the menu for these files with these extensions only
try {
if ( !isValidReference( SelectExample.menu ) ) {
SelectExample.menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "MyCommand", "at the end of Thumbnail", "myMenuID" );
SelectExample.menu.onSelect = SelectExample.menuSelected;
} else {
SelectExample.menu.enabled = true;
}
} catch ( e ) {
}
} else {
try {
SelectExample.menu.enabled = false;
} catch ( e ) {
}
}
return { handled:true }; // tells Bridge event was handled
}
}
return { handled:false }; // tells Bridge event wasn't handled and
//to continue through the handler array
}
app.eventHandlers.push( { handler: SelectExample.onSelectHandler } );

I tried both, neither worked.

Andrew

I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like you are using the wrong menu type (first parameter when creating the MenuElement). Your first MenuElement is type "command" when I think it should be type "menu". That is probably why your sub-menu won't show up.

Hi John, thanks for the reply

That's basically what I want but with a context menu instead.

Right click a thumbnail in the content pane, and you see the 'Labels' option, which if clicked gives you various individual label options. I want to create an equivalent Scripts option in the same context menu (I can do that) which has individual script options within it (haven't managed to do that for a context menu so far, can do it for a main menu).

Andrew

I'm not sure I quite understand exactly what you are trying to do, but here's a code snippet from a test app of mine that creates a new top level menu and adds one menu item to that menu.

var menu = MenuElement.find("testMenuID");
if (menu == null)
{
// add a menu item
var testMenu = new MenuElement("menu", "Test", "before Help", "testMenuID");
var cmd1 = new MenuElement("command", "Test #1 - Array Mods", "at the end of testMenuID", "test1ID");
cmd1.onSelect = TestFunc_ArrayMods;
}

--John