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Adobe Version Cue CS3 Client Programmer’s Guide

Key Operations

FIGURE 9 Custom Menus within Adobe Bridge CS3 Content pane

The Version Cue client receives JavaScript code— using a JavaScript library from Adobe

named ScriptUI— that enables custom menus to be created when first visiting a Version Cue

project. To see the scripts associated with creating the user interface, see the data/scripts folder

of the sample.custommenu SDK sample. Note that you can add custom menu elements to

both standard Version Cue projects and external projects, although the underlying mecha-

nisms are slightly different in each case. See Case Study: Connecting to an External System

through Version Cue CS3 and examine the use cases associated withClient User Interface Cus-

tomization for more detail.

The operations triggered by selecting these custom menu items in Bridge are executed by the

sample plug-in named sample.custommenu on the Version Cue Server.

The code in sample.custommenu that executes on the Version Cue Server is invoked by receiv-

ing a custom SOAP message at the Server. The sample named sample.custommenu extends

the default Version Cue protocol between client and Version Cue Server, to enable parameters

to be passed from the clients like Bridge to control how the operation executes at the Server.

For instance, parameters passed back to the Server identify the asset that was selected in Bridge

and can specify other information like the angle of rotation or the quality and resolution of the

thumbnail to create.

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