Check if application buttons are clicked

[jamesprongs]

Hi, 

Hoping that someone can help me with this. I am trying to figure out if, from a document, I can see if application buttons are clicked in Adobe Acrobat. In particular, I would like to see when an attachment is added or removed from the Attachments panel, but I can't seem to check this the way I expected. 

I've come up with this bit of code:

if (app.execMenuItem("AddFileAttachment")) {
console.println("success");
}

However, this block seems to actually run app.execMenuItem(), instead of checking to see if it ran. 

A little confused both as to why this is happening, but also now wondering if there is a way to read when attachments are added or removed via the Attachment panel that would be best. 

[Bernd Alheit]

At Document Open you can read the information of available attachments.

At Document Save you can check any difference at the attachments.

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

More: execMenuItem does the same thing as clicking on the menu, no more or less. 

There is no feature in Acrobat to allow a document to track the user interface.

There is no feature in JavaScript to allow a script to be notified of document changes.

[try67]

And it has no return value, so using it in an if-statement is meaningless. It will never return true (or false).

[jamesprongs]

Was afraid of this, but good to know. Appreciate the confirmation.