AE SDK - AE 25.3.2 Crashes With Thirty Party Plugins with macOs

@nishu_kush We found the problem, it seems to be a bug in AE but it's something we can easily fix in our code.

The crash occurs if a plug-in sets the PF_OutFlag_REFRESH_UI flag during event processing related to PF_Window_LAYER or PF_Window_COMP and the custom inspector UI hasn't actually been created or displayed yet to the user.

So if the inspector UI for that plugin happens to be visible, no crash occurs – and presumably the PF_OutFlag_REFRESH_UI causes the custom UI to be redrawn.

But if the plug-in sets PF_OutFlag_REFRESH_UI and the inspector is not displaying the plug-in’s UI, the crash occurs.

HTH

Our plugins will stop setting `PF_OutFlag_REFRESH_UI`, despite the fact that it served a purpose in synching custom UI between comp/layer windows and the inspector, until a fix is available for us to test.

@nishu_kush The problem is reproducible with just about any plugin of ours that we tried. When the crash occurs, no third-party code is executing on any thread. This doesn't obviously exculpate our code... but it certainly makes it very hard to guess what we might be doing wrong, if anything at all. We’re hoping that once you’ve reproduced the issue on your side, it will become obvious as to what’s actually causing the crash.

@nishu-kush i sent a crash report to your attention via After Effects

Hi Yanomanow,

Thanks for writing in and sorry to hear about the crash. Could you let us know the names of the plug-ins that you've tried that caused After Effects to crash? Also, share the crash report here or if you see the crash reporter after the crash, provide your email id to it and submit. That'll give a better picture of what's going on.

Looking forward to your response.

@Bruce Bullis Could we please have this filed as a bug? When the crash occurs no third-party code is running on any thread, so it is hard to make any good guesses as to what’s causing the crash and where it needs to be addressed.