How to design the user interface for Indesign cs6 plugin ?

Question

Designing user interface using custom c++ library(SDK) for pluging is very tedious work .so when I search the net than i found that we can do it using Adobe Creative Suite Extension Builder but i dont know how to use it to develop user interface for plugin and to how to enable event handling in this UI .I read lots of document regarding this on net but they all created lots of confusion in my mind  so can anyone help me to know steps which i must follow to develop plugin using this or whatever technology (action script,java script etc)

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

If you want to develop Extensions using Creative Suite Extension builder then i think this is not the right forum for you. Please post your specific queries regarding this at the below mentioned link

http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites/cs_sdk

To give a brief of how to develop UI using JS you can use ScriptUI to develop your UI, it is a fast and OS independent approach to UI development. The UI created using JS is native in look. You can refer the following link for some help on ScriptUI

http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/scriptui.html

I don't have much info regarding development in CS SDK, but i can point you to one more direction of dev called as hybrid plugins wherein the UI is created in CS SDK, and appropriate methods are exposed from the C++ plugin(enhancing the script object model) to be called up by the CS code for too and fro communication between these two modules of code.

Hope these pointer help you in getting started.

Thanks,

-Manan

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