How to build and run sample extensions?

Question

I spend quite a while in trying to get the sample extensions to run, provided at

Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources · GitHub or also in the Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 SDK for the Plugins that have a GUI.

So far i did not succeed.

System Windows 7 x64. Illustrator CC

First try:

Package one of the samples using the Adobe package manager. Added the whole folder of "CEP_HTML_Test_Extension" or as well the "TutorialUI" from the SDK samples.

and then install the resulting zxp file it using the "Extension manager". No errors reported. Extension managers lists the Extension as active for AI CC. Started Illustrator.

But i dont see anything in illustrator. There is no entry "Extensions" in the Windows menu of Illustrator.

The menus of the Tutorial PlugIn are shown, but the Dialog of the sample does not show up. In the debugger i noticed that the call to pFnLoadExtension fails.

Second try:

Following the pdf "USING THE ADOBE EXTENSION SDK" (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/creativesuite/pdfs/CC14_Extension_SDK.pdf)

Package done as before

Activated PlayerDebugMode in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\CSXS.5

copied the zxp file to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions

Same result. I do not see anything of a extension.

I had no problems building and running the Sample Plugins though.

What am i doing Wrong?

How can i build and run a simple sample extension?

Any help appreciated.

lesavage · Accepted Answer

I already tried that in the meanwhile and used a very large range:

	<HostList>
		<Host Name="ILST" Version="[1.0,99.9]" />

	</HostList>

The result of this is are the error codes above listed today.

Thanks for your Help, Lea, but i still do not get it to work.

Is there not maybe a significant Step that i am missing???

Regards

Stefab

The issue related to how the samples were copied to the extensions directory. When you have .zxp files you need to extract the contents and place these inside the extensions directory.

For example NOT this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\

TutorialUI.zxp

UIShowcase_sample.zxp

But this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\

TutorialUI\

UIShowcase_sample\

You can install the .zxp through Extension Manager or, for development purposes, rename the filetype to .zip.

lesavage · Answer

Can you try one of the extensions which is listed under 'CEP 4 extensions' section at Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub. It is not clear from the above whether you are using Ai CC 2014 or Ai CC so a CEP 4 extension should work on both versions.

Kind regards,

Lea

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