Testing plugins in After Effects

well, there's this highly dubious process i've suggested in the past...

since plug-ins are DLLs, you can create an "empty shell" plug-in, that

dynamically loads (and unloads) your "real" plug-in and just transfers all

calls to it.

this way the dynamically loaded DLL is not locked and can be re-compiled

without re-launching AE.

other restrictions i mentioned still apply...

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:41 AM tit_toinou <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

take a look at this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/edit-and-continue-visual-cpp?view=vs-2017

i haven't used it in a while, because it got broken when switching to x64,

but i think it's back on. it allows you to change the code during a debug

session.

there are some limitations, because AE does some things calls at certain

times, and having already executed these calls, AE won't execute them again

until it restarts:

1. global setup. happens on the first time a plug-in is loaded on a

session. if you change something in the global setup function, you'll need

to relaunch AE.

2. param setup, same as above.

3. sequence setup. this happens only when a new instance is created, and

won't happen again for an existing instance.

that's about it.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:00 PM richardr69178942 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>