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Is it possible to add an entirely new menu, say menu "CustomApp" on the fly?

For example a CustomApp package could add its own menu "CustomApp" with submenus, ect, once Needed.

Former examples I have seen, only dealt with adding to an existing menu.

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possible duplicate of How make AddMenuCommands work in an init.m – Szabolcs May 30 '12 at 16:25
Or maybe this one: mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/907/12 – Szabolcs May 30 '12 at 16:26
I was too quick to mark as duplicate, I am sorry. You are right that the other examples add to existing menus, and don't add a new menu. – Szabolcs May 30 '12 at 21:00
AFAIK you can only do this by manually altering the MenuSetup.tr file -- but will be interested in other methods are available. – Mike Honeychurch May 30 '12 at 23:31
@Szabolcs No problem :-) – magma May 31 '12 at 0:48

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You can't add an entirely new menu using AddMenuCommands. We have it from John Fultz here:

"AddMenuCommands can only position a menu relative to one with a simple front end token."

(I trust I've not taken that out of context.)

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I feared that. Still..is it possible to force MMA to read and apply a new MenuSetup.tr file during a session? maybe by restarting the fron-end? – magma May 31 '12 at 0:52

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