Hi all,

I need to put a new menu in a concrete position in the File menu:

#define kNewExportMenuKey kTxtExpStringPrefix "kNewExportMenuKey"
#define kNewExportMenuPath "Main:&File:" kNewExportMenuKey
#define kNewExportTargetMenuPath kNewExportMenuPath

With this code the new menu appears at the end of Menu File.
File ----> --------------------
Exit
New Menu->

How do I create this menu for example within File under the Export ...?
File ----> ---------------------
Adobe PDF presets ->
Export...
Cross-media Export->
New Menu->
---------------------

Thanks in advance.

jim_birkenseer

Hi juanma,

You set the menu item's position in your plug-in's MenuDef resource in the .fr file. In the example below, your menu item should appear just after the Export menu item. You can find the locations of the various menu items InDesign uses in the AdobeMenuPositions.h file in the SDK.

resource MenuDef (kSDKDefMenuResourceID)
{
{
kMyPIActionID,
kMyPIMenuPath,
kExportMenuPosition + 1, // This line sets the position
kSDKDefIsNotDynamicMenuFlag,
}
};

I hope this helps!

-- Jim

Hi Jim.

Thank you very much for your help.

Now teh problem is that my New Menu is really a submenu with three entries:

File ----> ---------------------
Adobe PDF presets ->
Export...
Cross-media Export->
New Menu-> SubMenu 1
SubMenu 2
SubMenu 3
---------------------

(*) How do I declare a new path for those submenus?

resource MenuDef (kSDKDefMenuResourceID)
{
{
kMyPIActionID,
kMyPIMenuPath,
kExportMenuPosition + 1, // This line sets the position
kSDKDefIsNotDynamicMenuFlag,

kSubMenu1ActionID,
(*)kSubMenuPath, //????
kSDKDefAlphabeticPosition,
kSDKDefIsNotDynamicMenuFlag,
}
};

(*) #define kSubMenuPath "Main:&File:New Menu"
A new entry is created but not link with the existing menu "New Menu".

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Juanma.