Error "app.addMenuItem is not a function"

Question

Hey,
New to Acrobat and Javascript in general.  I wanted to be able to create a custom toolbar with four buttons when a document is loaded (we don't want the buttons on the documents themselves), and I copied and pasted the following code into a module named "Open" to give me an example of how the commands work.  When I run it, I get the error in the thread title.  So I copied the first block of code - the "addMenuItem" command into the Javascript console and tried running it from there, and I get the same error.  Anyone have any idea what's going on here?  Thanks for any assistance you can give me.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
//-----------------Do not edit the XML tags--------------------
//<Document-Level>
//<ACRO_source>Open</ACRO_source>
//<ACRO_script>
/*********** belongs to: Document-Level:Open ***********/
var atbtoolbuttons;
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "atbToolButtonSet",
cUser: "My Menu",
cParent: "Tools",
cMarked: "event.rc = ( (typeof atbtoolbuttons != 'undefined') && !atbtoolbuttons )",
cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target == null);",
cExec: "loadATBToolButton();", nPos: 0
var loadATBToolButton = app.trustedFunction( function ()
if ( typeof atbtoolbuttons == "undefined" )
atbtoolbuttons = true;
else {
if (!atbtoolbuttons) {
app.removeToolButton("atbToolButton1");
app.removeToolButton("atbToolButton2");
atbtoolbuttons = true;
return;
if ( atbtoolbuttons ) {
app.beginPriv();
// Get the path to the user JavaScript folder
var atbPath=app.getPath({cCategory: "user", cFolder: "javascript"});
try {
// Try opening the icon doc as in hidden mode, and retrieve its doc
// object.
var doc=app.openDoc({
cPath: atbPath+"/icon_toolbar.pdf", bHidden: true});
} catch (e) { console.println("Could not open icon file"); return;}
// Get the icon stream for myIcon1 from the hidden doc
var oIcon = util.iconStreamFromIcon(doc.getIcon("myIcon1"));
// Add a tool button using this icon
app.addToolButton({
cName: "atbToolButton1",
oIcon: oIcon,
cExec: "atbTask1();",
cTooltext: "My toolbar button 1",
nPos: 0
// Now get myIcon2 from the hidden document.
oIcon = util.iconStreamFromIcon(doc.getIcon("myIcon2"));
// and install this toolbar button as well
app.addToolButton({
cName: "atbToolButton2",
oIcon: oIcon,
cExec: "atbTask2()",
cTooltext: "My toolbar button 2",
nPos: 0
// Close our hidden document containing the icons.
doc.closeDoc();
app.endPriv();
// Set this variable to signal that the toolbars are installed.
atbtoolbuttons = false;
//</ACRO_script>
//</Document-Level>

Answer 1

In the documentation read the note for the method addMenuItem.