How to get the path of placed plugin location

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July 1, 2013
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hi all,

I want to get the path of my placed plugin location in my custom plug-in code.

supporse my custom plugin at :

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS5.1\Plug-ins\MyCustomPlugin\MyCustomPlugin.aip

Is any API is there that can tell me my plugin path or the Directory path.

Regards

Ashish.

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Correct answer A. Patterson

Yes, what you want is in SPPlugs.h, found in the pica_sp folder. Specifically, you want GetPluginFileReference(), which takes an SPPluginRef, which can be found in any message sent to the plugin. There's always a member of any message:

SPMessageData d;

In that (SPMData.h, also in the pica_sp folder), you'll find:

struct SPPlugin* self;

That's what you pass to GetPluginFileReference(). The result will be placed in a SPPlatformFileReference, which you can pass to the constructor of an ai::FilePath (IAIFilePath.hpp in the main SDK folder) and then you'll have a fairly friendly object from which to pull the full path.

A. PattersonCorrect answer

Inspiring

Yes, what you want is in SPPlugs.h, found in the pica_sp folder. Specifically, you want GetPluginFileReference(), which takes an SPPluginRef, which can be found in any message sent to the plugin. There's always a member of any message:

SPMessageData d;

In that (SPMData.h, also in the pica_sp folder), you'll find:

struct SPPlugin* self;

That's what you pass to GetPluginFileReference(). The result will be placed in a SPPlatformFileReference, which you can pass to the constructor of an ai::FilePath (IAIFilePath.hpp in the main SDK folder) and then you'll have a fairly friendly object from which to pull the full path.

2007ayAuthor

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hi,

Thank a lot now i am able to get my config.xml file.

for reading this xml file i am using msxml6.lib .

but facing a lot of problem in string conversion .

can you tell me please is any api provide by AI so i can load it and process this.

one thing more i dont want to load my xml as part of document . i want to load this individaul object or file.

Regards

ashish

A. Patterson

Inspiring

ai::UnicodeString (IAIUnicodeString.h) has a bunch of constructors & options for loading strings. That's your best bet. Otherwise you may just need to look for some stdlib sample code to convert before passing it to ai::UnicodeString.

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