How to Lock the Plug in Add on Tools in Adobe X?

Question

Hello,
I have a folder level javascript with a tool button installed on users hard drives.
Those with Adobe Reader 8 and 9 shows the add on tool button automatically.
Those with Adobe Reader X have to use the steps as follows to show the plug in tools
show tools pane
extended features
Plug in add on Tools
The user has to follow all of the above steps each time a document is opened to click on the tool button.
This can become time consuming when many documents need to use the tool button consecutively.
Is there a way to lock the tool button so the user just has to click the tool button when a document is opened in Reader X?
Any assistance will be most appreciated.
Thank you

Answer 1

In response to a question about finding the internal name of a custom button (such as one added using a folder-level JavaScript):
The app.addToolButton() method for Acrobat 9 and earlier uses the cName parameter to define the internal name of the tool and posts it to a special "Add-on" toolbar, for example:
app.addToolButton({
  cName: "myToolButton",
  cExec: "app.alert('Someone pressed me!')",
  cTooltext: "Push Me!",
  cLabel: "My Button",
  cEnable: true,
  nPos: 0
In Acrobat X this function will create a new pane in the Tools Panel called "Plug-in Add-on Tools" if it's not already present, and post the button there rather than on the system toolbar or Quick Tools area; but the internal name of the resulting button used by the registry preferences will have the prefix "_legacy:". In this example, if you create a button using the above script and are referring to the button in the Acrobat X registry keys to pre-populate the button into the Quick Tools area, you should use the name
_legacy:myToolButton
However the button itself still has the internal name "myToolButton", so if you try to create it a second time, the script will fail because the name "myToolButton" is no longer unique. Don't use the "_legacy:" prefix in your button-creation script.
Note that in Acrobat X 10.0 you cannot use the app.removeToolButton() method to remove any buttons from anywhere (the toolbars or the Panes), nor can you use the app.listToolbarButtons() function to return an array of all the objects; as the API has no direct connection to the toolbars or Panes. When a script tries to create a new button the Acrobat X API diverts the function call to the Tools Pane, but it's strictly a one-way conversation.