No content in extension panel

Question

I've followed in detail Andy Hall's CEP5 blog and the CC14 Extension SDK examples to build an extension, including setting PlayerDebugMode to 1. I also studied and tried out the sample extensions Github.

Still, while I can open the panel of my extension in InDesign CC (version 12.0) itself, it shows no content and I am unable to connect the debugger (Chrome gives me a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED). I don't know how to attach a zip to this thread, but you can download the example extension here.

What am I missing?

(P.S. Since this doesn't even work with Adobe's own sample extensions, I've filed an issue on Github as well.)

Jens Troeger · Accepted Answer

After setting PlayerDebugMode for all three (com.adobe.CSXS.5.plist, com.adobe.CSXS.6.plist, com.adobe.CSXS.7.plist) and a reboot, things started to work. I don't know why it had to be all three...

Manan Joshi · Answer

Your plugin loads fine on my InDesign CC2017 on MAC, and i can also attach to the debugger using chrome and cefclient. This should be related to PlayerDebug Mode setting in the plist file. Do the following

Go to <user>/Library/Preferences
Locate the file com.adobe.CSXS.7.plist
Add the key PlayerDebugMode and set its value to 1
With InDesign still closed, run the following command sudo killall cfprefsd
Relaunch InDesign and things should work for you.

Let me know if you still face issues.

-Manan

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