How to create a Context Menu submenu?

Question

I am trying to create a submenu which lists scripts in the content window - Does anyone know how to do this?
This works:
if (MenuElement.find ('Thumbnail/tscript') == null) var ah_ScriptsContext = new MenuElement( "command", "Scripts", "at the end of Thumbnail", "tscript");
But the submenu does not work:
var ah_runScriptImRnContext = new MenuElement("menu","AH Image Rename","at the end of Thumbnail/tscript");
I've tried various combinations of 'menu' / 'command' and everything else I can think of, so far no go.
Andrew

Answer 1

Here ya go, Andrew:
Bob
Adobe WAS Scripting
#target bridge
ContextDemo = {};
ContextDemo.handler = function( menu ) {
alert( menu.text );
try {
MenuElement.create( "menu", "Menu", "at the end of Thumbnail", "cMenu" );
ContextDemo.m1 = MenuElement.create( "command", "Command 1", "at the end of cMenu", "cMenu/sub1" );
ContextDemo.m1.onSelect = ContextDemo.handler;
ContextDemo.m2 = MenuElement.create( "command", "Command 2", "at the end of cMenu", "cMenu/sub2" );
ContextDemo.m2.onSelect = ContextDemo.handler;
} catch ( e ) {
// now let's get tricky
// disabling a script generated context menu makes it disappear from the context menu
SelectExample = {}
SelectExample.menuSelected = function() {
alert( "You selected " + app.document.selections[ 0 ].name );
SelectExample.menu = undefined;
SelectExample.onSelectHandler = function( event ) {
if ( event.object.constructor.name == "Thumbnail" ) {
if ( event.type == "select" ) {
// event.object is the Thumbnail object that was selected
if ( event.object.isFileType( "jpg,jpeg,psd,tif,tiff" ) ) { // enable the menu for these files with these extensions only
try {
if ( !isValidReference( SelectExample.menu ) ) {
SelectExample.menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "MyCommand", "at the end of Thumbnail", "myMenuID" );
SelectExample.menu.onSelect = SelectExample.menuSelected;
} else {
SelectExample.menu.enabled = true;
} catch ( e ) {
} else {
try {
SelectExample.menu.enabled = false;
} catch ( e ) {
return { handled:true }; // tells Bridge event was handled
return { handled:false }; // tells Bridge event wasn't handled and
//to continue through the handler array
app.eventHandlers.push( { handler: SelectExample.onSelectHandler } );