I want to add a contextual menu in InDesign. I use this command: app.menus.item("Text Context Menu").submenus.item("MY_MENU") It works, but when I switch my local to another than english (ex.: fr_FR) , it won’t add because I have to use this: app.menus.item("Menu contextuel Texte").submenus.item(…

As a smart solution here is to identify the Menu using UXP API you can use the menuID property rather than the menu name, wich is consistent across different languages. then you can use entrypoints in your manifest file to define commands and panels dynamically. this method ensures the proper integr…

@YesserKira can you add this request to this this question from @Erin_Finnegan ? [image] Which missing feature or API is blocking your UXP migration? InDesign Is UXP missing a feature or API that is blocking your migration from CEP (or elsewhere) to UXP? Please list it here…

In ExtendScript you would use this: app.menus.item(“$ID/Text Context Menu”); to use the menu name language-independently. Not sure if that works in UXP.

I don’t know where @YesserKira got that constant, and whether it works for the particular InDesign menu. Even when it does, I’d find it suboptimal if UXP reinvents the wheel of string IDs referring to the application string database. On the other hand, I’d appreciate a UXP subsystem supporting thir…

It has been 18 months. Any updates for UXP? My add-on can add a contextual menu when InDesign is in English or in French, but will fail if InDesign is in another language.

Another try: InDesign Strings, including those for menus and actions, are localized. You find the localized name e.g. from the menu.name iterating the menus collection, as you already got it. To undo that localize and find the key string, use app.findKeyStrings(“Menu contextuel Texte”), it should …

You can do it even better, still leveraging the doScript mechanism, because doScript can return the actual InDesign object: const FileMenu= app.doScript( 'app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.itemByName("$ID/&File")', ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT ); const newEntry=FileMenu.subMenus.add('Something')…

How do you add a context menu without knowing the display language

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medium_jon June 3, 2024, 12:18pm 3

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How do you add a context menu without knowing the display language

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