Outline stroke with Illustrator scripting

[RuyRamos]

Hello everybody!

I'm making a script. I need to do the outline stroke action. I can't find it in the extendscript anywhere.

I can do it from a applescript and call it from my extendscript in CS6 BUT I need my script to run CS5.5 and run on a windows machine:

tell application "System Events"
    click menu item "All" of menu "Select" of menu bar item "Select" of menu bar 1 of process "Adobe Illustrator"
    click menu item "Outline Stroke" of menu "Path" of menu item "Path" of menu "Object" of menu bar item "Object" of menu bar 1 of process "Adobe Illustrator"

I have also found a way to do this in CS6 (app.executeMenuCommand ('Live Outline Stroke'))  but i havent got it working yet. And its for CS6+ so I can't really use it if I cant force my users to upgrade

Anyone out there with an answer? It would help me alot. As I understand it you can call functions withing extensionscript if you have the right "action code" for it. Using the ActionDescriptor.

 var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();

I have looked around and I cant find any documentation with a complete reference with the action codes. Do any one of you out there the action code for "Outline stroke"?

Thanks so much for your answer and effort.

Regards,

Ruy Ramos

[CarlosCanto]

playing Actions and executing Menu Commands debuted in CS6.

For CS5 you're out of luck, you're stuck with Applescript for playing actions

ActionDescriptor() is not illustrator, it might be Photoshop.

[Muppet Mark]

Yup it's PS… That app has 'action manager' code. You can even use a plug-in to record it and utilise. Alas not with AI.

[Zenek_Demar]

have fun

// select objects, which you want to tranform/expand.  
#target illustrator
app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");
var doc = activeDocument; 
var sel = doc.selection;
if (sel.length > 0) {
   for (var i=0; i<sel.length; i++) {
        app.executeMenuCommand("Expand3");
       }
   }

[RuyRamos]

Hello,

Thank you for this!! My question now is, is it possible to do this comand without the UI coming up?

I tried to set:

UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS

but nothing changes.

Do you know where there is a list of all the menucomands?

Thanks again

Regards,

Ruy Ramos

[Nils M. Barner · Accepted solution]

just in case someone else is looking for a solution...

should work in Ai 2015 and up:

#target illustrator
app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");
var doc = activeDocument; 
var sel = doc.selection;
if (sel.length > 0) {
   for (var i=0; i<sel.length; i++) {
      app.executeMenuCommand("OffsetPath v22");  
   }
}