Add a Main Menu

Below is code to add a main menu at the right side of InDesign's or InCopy's menu bar:

function makeMainMenu(menuName) {

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//-- M A K E M A I N M E N U

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//-- Generic: Yes.

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//-- Purpose: To add the main menu in the menu bar.

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//-- Parameters: menuName: A string for the name of the main menu.

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//-- Returns: A menu object.

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//-- Written by Jon S. Winters.

//-- eps@electronicpublishingsupport.com

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try {

//-- OPTIONAL: You may want to try to remove the menu if you are

//-- going to change it radically.

removeMenu(menuName) ;

var aMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item(menuName);

aMenu.title ; //-- this errors if the menu doesn't exist, That causes

//-- the menu to be added in the catch statement.

//-- Internal function

function removeMenu (killThisMenu) {

var mySampleScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item(killThisMenu);

mySampleScriptMenu.remove();

}

}

catch ( err ) {

var aMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add(menuName);

}

return aMenu ;

}

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