I need your help to get a specific menu command ID in various AE versions

Finally I came up with the following solution.

Declaring the menu command names in various languages

sv.commandNames = [];
sv.commandNames["Convert Audio to Keyframes"] = [
    "Convert Audio to Keyframes",
    "Audio in Keyframes konvertieren",
    "Convertir les données audio en images clés",
    "Convertir audio en fotogramas clave",
    "Converti audio in fotogrammi chiave",
    "Converter áudio em quadros-chave",
    "Преобразовать аудио в ключевые кадры",
    "オーディオをキーフレームに変換",
    "오디오를 키프레임으로 변환",
    "将音频转换为关键帧",
];
sv.commandNames["General..."] = [
    "General...",
    "Allgemein...",
    "Général...",
    "General...",
    "Generali...",
    "Geral...",
    "Общие...",
    "一般設定...",
    "일반...",
    "常规...",
];
sv.commandNames["Close"] = [
    "Close",
];

And so on... If you don't know a menu command name in other languages and it's not so crucial to executing your script, you may provide an English name only. At least it will work well in English versions.

Actually it was a kind of an investigation to get all of those names =). I was looking for screenshots of AE interface in other languages, because it's not easy to comprehend where a description text stops and starts a menu command in a hieroglyphic language help.

https://www.google.ru/search?q=%EC%BB%B4%ED%8F%AC%EC%A7%80%EC%85%98+%EB%86%92%EC%9D%B4%EC%97%90+%EB%A7%9E%EC%B6%94%EA%B8…

https://www.google.ru/search?q=%EC%BB%B4%ED%8F%AC%EC%A7%80%EC%85%98+%EB%86%92%EC%9D%B4%EC%97%90+%EB%A7%9E%EC%B6%94%EA%B8…

Still, I'm not sure if it will work well, because I saw numbers next to menu command names in some language versions.

Here goes the function, which receives a name in English and return an ID if found any.

// Get a Menu Command ID by Name (Multilingual)
function getCommandId (name, showAlert) {
    showAlert = typeof showAlert !== 'undefined' ? showAlert : false;
    var id = 0;
    var namesArr = sv.commandNames[name];
    for ( var i = 0; i < namesArr.length; i++ ) {
        if ( id = app.findMenuCommandId(namesArr) )
            return id;
    }
    if ( showAlert == true )
        alert("Menu command ID is not defined. Please switch to the English version of After Effects or contact support: " + sv.emailSupport, "Multilingual Support Error", true);
    return false;
}

If getting a menu command ID is crucial for your purposes, you can stop the script.

Also, you can set the second parameter to true to show an alert to a user which explains what's going on.

if ( commandId = getCommandId("Convert Audio to Keyframes", true) )
    app.executeCommand(commandId);
else if ( ! commandId )
    return "Multilingual Support Error"; // Stops The Script

If you don't care about stopping the script in case there is no ID found, I just run it like that.

if ( commandId = getCommandId("General...") )
    app.executeCommand(commandId);

While on the same subject... does the menu command ID of "Convert Expressions to Keyframes" also this erratic? Or is it safer to use it (at least right now)?  I didn't check it yet but if someone has the IDs of this command for the different versions I will be delighted!

Thanks in advance

Roy.

Agreed that matchnames would be nice, but command ID's were never meant to be a user feature and was mostly an in house testing setup that got left in like a few other functions. The PNG saving function being another one that is not supported officially. Since new features are added to AE all the time they can easily bump an enumerated value for the new addition. Like blendingmodes and such. This is why each version of AE can vary as you have found out Nemo. So it has always been a gamble to use command ID's in public scripts. They do come in handy for tasks that have not been implemented into ExtendScript natively, but can not be relied upon as a final solution unfortunately.

All for Win 7 SP1 64-bit.

That's kinda weird..