Creating Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts for Selectmenu plug-in

[velo145]

Found your SelectMenu plug-in yesterday – it’s great.

I search for open paths often and would love to make a keyboard shortcut, but the added Select/Object options from the plug-in don’t show up in Illustrator’s menu commands under Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts.

Is there another way to do this?

Mac, Illustrator CS6 (16.0.4)

Thanks!

[Rick Johnson]

I’m glad you find SelectMenu useful. I’m a little surprised you’re unable to assign keyboard shortcuts to the added items. I can’t test it, since I can’t run versions older than CC 2019 with recent versions of macOS. It does work with newer versions. Do you have the option to create an Action with “Insert Menu Item?” There is a way to use AppleScript to choose any menu item, which you might find help for on scripting forums. — Rick

[velo145]

Thanks for the reply, Rick. I created a action (with a shift/F1 shortcut), but for some reason, the action doesn’t “play” the menu command. No biggie. I’m stoked for the ease of finding open paths with the plug-in. Much appreciated.

Attached a photo of what I see when looking for the added MenuSelect functions in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu, fyi.

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