executeMenuCommand() Command List

[jduncan]

While building Ai Command Palette I found a great list of executeMenuCommand() values extracted by Shalako Lee from the 2017 SDK. As you might imagine, some of those commands no longer work, and since I'm about to release v0.2.0 of Ai Command Palette I've been testing them all and keeping track of the results in this Google Sheet.

I'm sharing this here because I figured this might be useful to some of you who write scripts for Illustrator. The sheet includes the Original List of commands from Shalako and a working list of the commands that I'm testing in Ai v26.3.1.

Right now I'm about halfway through the original 506 commands from Shalako's list. So far, I've found about 90 that no longer work. I've also updated any verbiage that may have changed in the menu system (since 2017) and updated the ordering to match Ai v26.3.1.

I also, made a simple script to test the commands below if you want to test any yourself. I'm trying to test each command in context to ensure they are working correctly.

Let me know if you have any other that I may have missed... Cheers!

P.S. There is another list on this forum (posted in 2014) that I have yet to review but I am aware of it and plan to compare it with Shalako's.

var result = prompt("Enter Command To Test", "", "Test Built-In Commands");

try {
  app.executeMenuCommand(result);
} catch (e) {
  alert("Error executing command:\n" + result + "\n\n" + e);
}

[schroef]

Is that perhaps why your palette does not "show all menu commands" as in one of your videos. If i search for it, it doesnt appear. If i go into the preferences, the initial menu item which shows, it doesnt show neither

[jduncan]

That was a built-in command that I removed a few versions ago. You can access any menu command by just searching for the command name, or the latest version has a new feature that enables searching on the command type. If you "Enable Searching on Command Type" which can be searched for or found in the "Ai Command Palette Settings..." command. After enabled, you can search for "menu" and all menu commands will show up in the results. Searching on type is disabled by default and can be toggled anytime in the palette settings. Hope that helps. Cheers!

[schroef]

Yeah found that. Pretty cool tool by the way. Very impressive since I read you started development in 2020. I guess by that you meant learn to code right?

Ps do you know of the website by Jonas to create dialog layouts for scriptui. It's super handy for creating precise and much shorter code for dialogs

Checkout out: scriptui.joonas.me

[Sergey Osokin]

I disagree with you about the short code in scriptui.joonas.me. After export you can refactor and shorten the dialog code by removing unimportant parameters, properties of dialog objects. I use it to quickly create a visual structure, but then I clean up the code afterwards. As a tool, this dialog builder is certainly good.

[schroef]

@Sergey Osokin 

Ow yeah I remove that restore section. But otherwise, it's way easier to work with vs those old files like we see in photoshop. Where each prop always has the parent prop etc etc before it. It makes referencing a bit more complicated 

[jduncan]

Really glad to hear you found the tool handy! And yes, I use scriptui.joonas.me often, mostly as a visual layout tool and reference. I typically still write most of the UI code by hand because I enjoy pain 🤣.

[schroef]

Ow really, that's a waste of time. I mean I remember prior to finding that, that checking layout takes so much time