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Tom Ruark
Inspiring
March 2, 2007
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CS3 Public Beta - MacTel - Plug-Ins

  • March 2, 2007
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How many developers have downloaded the CS3 public beta?
How many developers have downloaded the CS3 public beta SDK?
How many developers have their plug-ins running natively on MacTel? UniversalBinary?

I would like to hear your pain points and what I can do in the SDK to make life easier for future developers trying to move from CodeWarrior to XCode.

One big pain point I know of is debugging. Trying to debug a plug-in in XCode is very difficult. Does anyone have any tricks they can share? I know of two: 1) become a gdb expert (not an easy task), 2) use DebugStr(foo); and that will stop XCode if you have Break on DebugStr turned on.
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15 replies

Participant
September 16, 2008
Very interesting writeup thank you.
Participant
July 31, 2008
the adobe CS3 package still has some windows vista issues, especially Indesign crashes a lot
Participant
June 23, 2008
hi , maybe my blog can help you i have some sites about cars and hotels
Participant
April 18, 2008
There is no Talkback on Intel-based Macs when running natively or under Rosetta. The Apple Crash report program should launch in the event of application crashes
Participant
April 17, 2008
cs3 beta link is here

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html

kraloyun
yuju
fotoput
resim
Inspiring
September 3, 2007
> I can't get my hands on ResEdit/Resorcerer or a decent rez language documentation

The relevant documentation is Building and Managing Programs in MPW.
Inspiring
September 3, 2007
> Is there any way to make a plugin that works on both CS2 and CS3?

Trivial. Check my Makefiles, or the Xcode instructions in the SDK.

No source changes are required (if you write ordinary portable code).
Known Participant
August 31, 2007
Hi William,

maybe this will help you a bit:
http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/51868.htm

My main problem with the whole icon/bitmap issue is that I can't get my hands on ResEdit/Resorcerer or a decent rez language documentation, so I'm practically stuck on how to add icons/bitmaps to a mac .r file.
Participant
August 30, 2007
Is there any way to make a plugin that works on both CS2 and CS3?

Only being able to debug the plugin on the first load is a *real* pain.. Cause my plugin has some state and it only kicks in when you run the plugin twice.

There are a bazilion XCode settings, and I feel like I'm just swimming around in a sea of them without really knowing what they mean. The Acrobat SDK has all the settings in config files, which may be better (although I *just* got all my XCode photoshop settings under control).

I wish I could find out more about how to display images in an ADM dialog. I can't find a good example of just showing a logo on your dialog.
Inspiring
July 25, 2007
As replied by email, one "step by step" might be to examine the complete source code to Carbon plugins on my site. Actually, all of those plugins are Win32/Carbon/Classic portable.