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How do you check if a menu item exists?

By Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2021-09-27 15:17:40.733Z

I have been working on this script to toggle between Tidal and Pro Tools playback. Currently, one of them needs to be playing in order to get it to work since I don't know how I would check if Tidal is playing.

In Tidal, the Playback menu switches between having "Play" and "Pause" as menu items. Is there an easy way to check if a menu item exists?

For instance, If "Play" exists in Tidal, I want to click it.

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  1. Chris Shaw @Chris_Shaw2021-09-27 17:29:54.351Z

    Here you go:

    const tidalApp = sf.ui.app('com.tidal.desktop')

// Determine if Play or Pause exists in Playback menu
// This uses a ternary operator: If "Playback" exists then it will return "Play" otherwise it returns "Pause"
var playOrPause = (tidalApp.getMenuItem("Playback", "Play").exists) ? "Play" : "Pause";

tidalApp.menuClick({
    menuPath: ["Playback",playOrPause]
    });
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    1. Chris Shaw @Chris_Shaw2021-09-27 17:34:46.339Z

      This assumes, of course, that Tidal is already open.

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      1. Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2021-09-27 18:54:33.054Z

        This is great @Chris_Shaw ! Thanks for the help.

        Here's what I have going now:

        
const tidalApp = sf.ui.app('com.tidal.desktop')

// Determine if Play or Pause exists in Playback menu
// This uses a ternary operator: If "Playback" exists then it will return "Play" otherwise it returns "Pause"
// ↓ Thanks to Chris Shaw for this ↓

var playOrPause = (tidalApp.getMenuItem("Playback", "Play").exists) ? "Play" : "Pause";


if (sf.ui.proTools.isPlaying) {

    // Stop Pro Tools and Play Tidal

    sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.transportViewCluster.transportButtons.stopButton.elementClick();
    tidalApp.menuClick({
        menuPath: ["Playback", "Play"]
    })

} else if (playOrPause == "Play") {

    // Play Tidal if neither is playing

    tidalApp.menuClick({
        menuPath: ["Playback", "Play"]
    })

} else {

    // Pause Tidal and Play Pro Tools

    tidalApp.menuClick({
        menuPath: ["Playback", "Pause"]
    })
    sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.transportViewCluster.transportButtons.playButton.elementClick();
}
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