Custom Menu CS5

theiviaxx · Post by **theiviaxx** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:29 am

Hello all, did they make some way to add custom menus to PS in CS5? It was borderline impossible with cs2 and got worse (so i've heard) with cs3. As far as I know alienbrain and some 3d paint app were able to successfully do it, yet there is no documentation on how do it as far as I can tell.

I was hoping with CS5 they had opened it up a bit more.

Thanks

Mike Hale · Post by **Mike Hale** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:41 am

From a scripting point of view you can still only add to the filter, automate, and scripts menu.

jcr6 · Post by **jcr6** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:52 am

Actually you can insert under the HELP menu, too.

So,
1) File > Scripts
2) File > Automation
3) Filters (at the bottom, no hierarchy)
4) Help

Would be nice to be able to mix the scripts in with the filters based upon the category name, and also add something under Selection, again Hierarchical.

theiviaxx · Post by **theiviaxx** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:11 pm

It would be nice if they opened it up a bit more. and by a bit I mean a lot I wish there were a photoshop-esque tool with the scripting capabilities of Maya/XSI/Max. Imagine being able to use QT, python, and javascript. the things we could do!

rmawatson · Post by **rmawatson** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:19 pm

Funnily enough this is actually possible, I have done just that for our studios asset management system. Custom menuing through python extensions, provided through an embedded interpreter which is hosted by a photoshop plugin.Taking full advantage of PyQt too, which works really well. You can use the com stuff directly with the win32 extensions package available.

Adding the mens is a non trivial task, and invovles a bit of hackery. I ended up tracing through the assembler to find out what was going on, although I have wrapped everything up and exposed a mini menuing api for python.

Hopefully I will be able to release this to the community.

http://i33.tinypic.com/sqi4ib.jpg