Adding panel with Javascript?

Question

Hi,
I've written a number of script add-ons for InDesign CS2 and managed to get them installed as menu items. But what I'd really like to do is create a new panel with buttons to activate the scripts inside it. Is there any way I can do this with Javascript? (It needs to use JS as the scripts are used on Macs and PCs).
Thanks for any help in advance!

Answer 1

Indeed. This is the code I used, adapted from having found it elsewhere on the net. It doesn't appear to work in CS2, though; CS2 seems to dislike the "targetengine" which sets these things to run permanently in the background.
// MenuInst.jsx
// An InDesign JavaScript
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ "MenuInst.jsx" 1.0.0 1-September-2008
// Installs menu items.
// File needs to get dropped into the startup scripts directory
#targetengine "session"
// Path to where the scripts are being installed
var setpath = "~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0 ME/Scripts/Scripts Panel/";
var myScript1 = new File(setpath + "ScriptName.jsx");
var myScriptAction1 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Menu Text");
var myEventListener1 = myScriptAction1.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript1, false);
var myScript2 = new File(setpath + "ScriptName2.jsx");
var myScriptAction2 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Menu Text 2");
var myEventListener2 = myScriptAction2.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript2, false);
var myScript3 = new File(setpath + "ScriptName3.jsx");
var myScriptAction3 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Menu Text 3");
var myEventListener3 = myScriptAction3.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript3, false);
var myScript4 = new File(setpath + "ADifferentMenu.jsx");
var myScriptAction4 = app.scriptMenuActions.add("Other Menu Text");
var myEventListener4 = myScriptAction4.eventListeners.add("onInvoke", myScript4, false);
try{
var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item("First Menu");
myScriptMenu.title;
catch (myError){
var myScriptMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add(First Menu");
try{
var myScriptMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.item("Second Menu");
myScriptMenu2.title;
catch (myError){
var myScriptMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/Main").submenus.add("Second Menu");
var myScriptMenuItem1 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction1);
var myScriptMenuItem2 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction2);
var myScriptMenuItem3 = myScriptMenu.menuItems.add(myScriptAction3);
var myScriptMenuItem4 = myScriptMenu2.menuItems.add(myScriptAction4);