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pixxxelschubser
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February 12, 2014
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[JS] CS6+ executeMenuCommand

  • February 12, 2014
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Hello together,

since CS6+ there is possible to

executeMenuCommand (menuCommandString: string)

Executes a menu command using the menu shortcut string.

Question 1:

Who knows a way to read all the available commands?

Question 2:

At the time I need 'Clear Guides'

app.executeMenuCommand ('Clear Guides')

app.executeMenuCommand ('Clear guides')

app.executeMenuCommand ('clear Guides')

app.executeMenuCommand ('ClearGuides')

app.executeMenuCommand ('clear guides')

and other variants doesn't work.

Who know the right syntax? (Or is this menu command not available????)

Any help is appreciated. (Additional: I know the way to use app.doScript (myAction) - but this is not part of my questions)

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    Correct answer Zenek_Demar

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    ADOBE EMPLOYEES READING THIS, ENLIGHTEN US WITH AN ACTUAL LIST & PROPER DOCUMENTATION!

    CarlosCanto wrote:

    are there any volunteers with CS6 that would like to  make a great contribution to society and complete Moluapple's list?

    That would be great if someone would. Why there is not a list/reference or code command to extract said list/reference or proper documentation is a complete failure on Adobe's part.

    Even if they would have set it up as a logical path reference, that would parse the input regardless of case, etc..

    app.executeMenuCommand(select/same/fill color);

    Or have it documented and had alternative numbers assigned to all menu items, etc;

    app.executeMenuCommand(44); // select/same/fill color

    Seems doable to me, then again anything would have been better then the "mystery feature" as it currently stands.


    Hi guys,

    I am posting almost complete list of menu commands.

    Already removed plugin-like commands which does not work at all. Some of the entries are still to be confirmed.

    There are some entries like for eg. AdobeLayerPalette:

    - AdobeLayerPalette1 - show on/off layers window

    - AdobeLayerPalette2 - create new layer with no dialog popup

    - AdobeLayerPalette3 - create new layer with dialog popup

    or

    - AdobeNavigator1 - does not work

    - AdobeNavigator2 - does not work as well

    - AdobeNavigator - show on/off navigator window

    You will have to doublecheck for some of these commands. It does not hurt

    actualsize

    Add Anchor Points2

    AddArrowHeads2

    Adjust Colors Dialog

    Adjust3

    Adobe Action Palette

    Adobe Actions Batch

    Adobe AI Device center

    Adobe AI Save For Web

    Adobe Apply Last Effect

    Adobe Art Style Plugin Other libraries menu item

    Adobe Bridge Browse

    Adobe BrushManager Menu Item

    Adobe Color Palette

    Adobe Color Palette Secondary

    Adobe Default Workspace

    Adobe Flattening Preview

    Adobe Gradient Palette

    Adobe Harmony Palette

    Adobe Illustrator Find Font Menu Item

    Adobe Illustrator Smart Punctuation Menu Item

    Adobe Last Effect

    Adobe LinkPalette Menu Item

    Adobe Manage Workspace

    Adobe Minimal Workspace

    Adobe New Fill Shortcut

    Adobe New Stroke Shortcut

    Adobe New Style Shortcut

    Adobe New Swatch Shortcut Menu

    Adobe New Symbol Shortcut

    Adobe Optical Alignment Item

    Adobe Paragraph Styles Palette

    Adobe Save a Version

    Adobe Save Workspace

    Adobe Stroke Palette

    Adobe Style Palette

    Adobe SVG Interactivity Palette

    Adobe Swatches Menu Item

    Adobe Symbol Palette

    Adobe Symbol Palette Plugin Other libraries menu item

    Adobe Transparency Palette Menu Item

    Adobe Update Link Shortcut

    Adobe Variables Palette Menu Item

    AdobeAlignObjects2

    AdobeBrushMgr Other libraries menu item

    AdobeBuiltInToolbox1

    AdobeCheatSheetMenu

    AdobeLayerPalette1

    AdobeLayerPalette2

    AdobeLayerPalette3

    AdobeNavigator1

    AdobeNavigator2

    AdobePathfinderPalette1

    AdobeSwatch_ Other libraries menu item

    AdobeTransformObjects1

    AI Bounding Box Toggle

    AI Magic Wand

    AI Object Mosaic Plug-in3

    AI Place

    AI Reset Bounding Box

    ai_browse_for_script

    AISlice Clip to Artboard

    AISlice Combine

    AISlice Create from Guides

    AISlice Create from Selection

    AISlice Delete All Slices

    AISlice Divide

    AISlice Duplicate

    AISlice Feedback Menu

    AISlice Lock Menu

    AISlice Make Slice

    AISlice Release Slice

    AISlice Slice Options

    alternate glyph palette plugin

    alternate glyph palette plugin 2

    Appearance of Black 1

    Apply Last Filter

    areatextoptions

    arrangeicon

    artboard

    assignprofile

    average

    avgAndJoin

    bringAllToFront

    Brush Strokes menu item

    cascade

    centerAlign

    Character Styles

    Check Spelling

    cleanup menu item

    clear

    clearguide

    clearTrack

    clearTypeScale

    Clipping Masks menu item

    close

    closeAll

    color

    Colors3

    Colors4

    Colors5

    Colors6

    Colors7

    Colors8

    Colors9

    compoundPath

    control palette plugin

    convertlegacyText

    convertlegacyText1

    convertlegacyText2

    convertlegacyText3

    convertlegacyText4

    copy

    Create Envelope Grid

    cut

    Define Pattern Menu Item

    deselectall

    discretHyphen

    Distort2

    doc-color-cmyk

    doc-color-rgb

    DocInfo1

    document

    DropShadow2

    Dynamic Text

    edge

    Edit Custom Dictionary...

    Edit Envelope Contents

    editGraphData

    editMask

    EditOriginal Menu Item

    editview

    enterFocus

    Envelope Options

    exitFocus

    Expand as Viewed

    Expand Envelope

    Expand Planet X

    Expand Tracing

    Expand3

    expandStyle

    export

    faceSizeDown

    faceSizeUp

    File Handling & Clipboard 1

    File Info

    Find and Replace

    Find Blending Mode menu item

    Find Fill & Stroke menu item

    Find Fill Color menu item

    Find Link Block Series menu item

    Find Next

    Find Opacity menu item

    Find Reselect menu item

    Find Stroke Color menu item

    Find Stroke Weight menu item

    Find Style menu item

    Find Symbol Instance menu item

    fitall

    fitHeadline

    fitin

    Flash Text

    FlattenTransparency1

    Gradient Feedback

    graphDesigns

    group

    guidegridPref

    helpcontent

    hide

    hide2

    hideApp

    hideOthers

    highlightFont

    highlightFont2

    hyphenPref

    ink

    Input Text

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-attributes

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-character

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-info

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-opentype

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-paragraph

    internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-tab

    Inverse menu item

    join

    justify

    justifyAll

    justifyCenter

    justifyRight

    KBSC Menu Item

    keyboardPref

    Knife Tool2

    Last Filter

    leftAlign

    Live 3DExtrude

    Live 3DRevolve

    Live 3DRotate

    Live AddArrowHeads2

    Live Color Dialog

    Live Deform Arc

    Live Deform Arc Lower

    Live Deform Arc Upper

    Live Deform Arch

    Live Deform Bulge

    Live Deform Fish

    Live Deform Fisheye

    Live Deform Flag

    Live Deform Inflate

    Live Deform Rise

    Live Deform Shell Lower

    Live Deform Shell Upper

    Live Deform Squeeze

    Live Deform Twist

    Live Deform Wave

    Live DropShadow2

    Live Ellipse

    Live Feather

    Live Free Distort

    Live Inner Glow

    Live Offset Path

    Live Outer Glow

    Live Outline Object

    Live Outline Stroke

    Live Pathfinder Add

    Live Pathfinder Crop

    Live Pathfinder Divide

    Live Pathfinder Exclude

    Live Pathfinder Hard Mix

    Live Pathfinder Intersect

    Live Pathfinder Merge

    Live Pathfinder Minus Back

    Live Pathfinder Outline

    Live Pathfinder Soft Mix

    Live Pathfinder Subtract

    Live Pathfinder Trap

    Live Pathfinder Trim

    Live Pucker & Bloat

    Live Rasterize

    Live Rasterize Effect Setting

    Live Rectangle

    Live Roughen

    Live Round3

    Live Rounded Rectangle

    Live Scribble and Tweak

    Live Scribble Fill

    Live Transform

    Live Twist

    Live Zig Zag

    lock

    lock2

    lockguide

    LowerCase Change Case Item

    Make and Convert to Live Paint

    Make and Expand

    Make Envelope

    make mesh

    Make Planet X

    Make Text Wrap

    Make Tracing

    Make Warp

    makeguide

    makeMask

    Marge Planet X

    minimizeWindow

    navigateToNextDocument

    navigateToNextDocumentGroup

    navigateToPreviousDocument

    navigateToPreviousDocumentGroup

    new

    newFromTemplate

    newview

    newwindow

    noCompoundPath

    OffsetPath2

    OffsetPath3

    open

    outline

    Overprint2

    pagetiling

    Paint Tracing

    paste

    pasteBack

    pasteFront

    pasteInAllArtboard

    pasteInPlace

    Path Blend Expand

    Path Blend Make

    Path Blend Options

    Path Blend Release

    Path Blend Replace Spine

    Path Blend Reverse Spine

    Path Blend Reverse Stack

    PDF Presets

    Planet X Options

    pluginPref

    preference

    preview

    Print

    Print Presets

    proofColors

    proof-custom

    proof-document

    proof-mac-rgb

    proof-monitor-rgb

    proof-win-rgb

    Punk2

    quit

    raster

    Rasterize 8 menu item

    redo

    Registration...

    Release Envelope

    Release Planet X

    Release Text Wrap

    Release Tracing

    releaseCropMarks

    releaseguide

    releaseMask

    releaseThreadedTextSelection

    Remove Anchor Points menu

    removeThreading

    repeatPathfinder

    Replace Colors Dialog

    revert

    rightAlign

    Roughen3

    Round3

    Rows and Columns....

    ruler

    rulerCoordinateSystem

    Saturate3

    save

    Save for Office

    saveacopy

    saveas

    saveasTemplate

    Scribble3

    selectall

    selectallinartboard

    Selection Hat 1

    Selection Hat 10

    Selection Hat 11

    Selection Hat 2

    Selection Hat 3

    Selection Hat 4

    Selection Hat 5

    Selection Hat 6

    Selection Hat 7

    Selection Hat 8

    Selection Hat 9

    selectionPref

    sendBackward

    sendForward

    sendToBack

    sendToFront

    Sentence case Change Case Item

    setBarDesign

    setCropMarks

    setGraphStyle

    setIconDesign

    Show Gaps Planet X

    Show Perspective Grid

    Show Preprocessed Image

    showAll

    showAllWindows

    ShowArtwork

    showgrid

    showguide

    showHiddenChar

    ShowNoArtwork

    ShowNoImage

    ShowOriginalImage

    ShowPaths

    ShowPathsAndTransparentArtwork

    showtemplate

    ShowTransparentImage

    simplify menu item

    sizeStepDown

    sizeStepUp

    snapgrid

    Snapomatic on-off menu item

    snappoint

    snapPref

    spacing

    Stray Points menu item

    Style Palette

    SWFPresets

    switchSelTool

    switchUnits

    systemInfo

    Text Objects menu item

    Text Wrap Options...

    textpathtype3d

    textpathtypeGravity

    textpathtypeOptions

    textpathtypeRainbow

    textpathtypeSkew

    textpathtypestairs

    textthreads

    threadTextCreate

    tile

    Title Case Change Case Item

    toggleAutoHyphen

    toggleLineComposer

    Tracing Options

    TracingPresets

    tracking

    Transform3

    transformagain

    transformmove

    transformreflect

    transformrotate

    transformscale

    transformshear

    Transparency Presets

    TransparencyGrid Menu Item

    TrimMark2

    Twirl Tool2

    type-horizontal

    type-vertical

    undo

    ungroup

    unitundoPref

    unlockAll

    UpperCase Change Case Item

    userInterfacePref

    view1

    view10

    view2

    view3

    view4

    view5

    view6

    view7

    view8

    view9

    Welcome screen menu item

    ZigZag2

    zoomin

    zoomin2

    zoomout

    Have fun

    3 replies

    pixxxelschubser
    pixxxelschubserAuthor
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2021

    Only as a small addition.

    How to get the name for a specific menu command (if not already listed):

     

    Thank you so much!!

     

    I'm still baffled at how badly Adobe has documented their stuff (and the lack of tutorials they provide)!

    Any idea where I could find the latest menu commands list (for Illustrator CC 2020)?

     

    From your links and this post (https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/get-menu-command-strings/m-p/8539169?page=1#M216220), I found a way to get the menu command:

    (Explained here for future lost programmers 😉 )

    1) Create a new Action set

    2) Then choose "Insert Menu Item"

    3) Search for the right menu item and add it to the action set.

    4) Click "Save Actions" from the small menu in the Action panel

    5) Open the saved .aia file in some text editor

    6) Find the 'event', in my case it was under "/event-2 {"

    7) In my case '/parameter-1' had a '/value' of "4c6976652041646f62652050534c20476175737369616e20426c7572"

    😎 Convert that value from HEX to ASCII (I used: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.html) and get the menu command. In this case "Live Adobe PSL Gaussian Blur". (Which worked when used in Illustrator CC 2020.)

     

    I still get the popup dialog with the options to adjust. So if anyone knows how to set these and skip the dialog, that would be awesome !


    By @philipv71883047

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      SirRavenloft
      New Participant
      January 22, 2018

      Is it possible to pass parameters to a Effect? say, an Effect->Distort->Roughen?
      I would like to randomize parameters for, e.g., each path.

      CarlosCanto
      CarlosCanto
      Community Expert
      January 22, 2018

      no, not possible but you can use applyEffect()

      check these threads for more info

      Re: PageItem.applyEffect(LiveEffectXML)

      Re: Applying Live effects (offset path) in Illustrator using AS

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        W_J_T
        Inspiring
        February 12, 2014

        Hi pixxxel schubser,

        1.) There is a link to a list discovered by moluapple in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4560618

        2.) "Clear Guides" does not seem to be one of things listed however? Maybe not all things are able to be targeted? (What a let down that is but no real surprise given AI's scripting deficiencies.))

        You could always script it instead as an alternative:

        // Remove all guides
        var doc = app.activeDocument;
        for (var i = doc.pathItems.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
            var p = doc.pathItems;
            if (p.guides == true) {
                p.remove();
            }
        }

        Hope something proves useful to your efforts.

          pixxxelschubser
          pixxxelschubserAuthor
          Community Expert
          February 12, 2014

          Hi @W_J_T,

          I think, your moluapple-link is very helpful for me. Thanx

          The scipt isn't useful in my case. In need the function for an „finish script“ to clean all files from different things. And there are, unfortunately, very often several 10000 + objects available in the files. A loop takes too long. Currently I manage myself with a script call action 'Clean Guides' executes. But in every file must be exist at least one guide as minimum. Otherwise I create one guide (in the script) and after then I try {} to call the action. This is cumbersome I know, but it works and it's much more faster than the loop through all items.

          CarlosCanto
          CarlosCanto
          Community Expert
          February 13, 2014

          try

          app.executeMenuCommand ('clearguide')

          and let us know if it works, I don't have CS6 to try

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