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February 7, 2007
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What is this plugInUniqueID thing?

  • February 7, 2007
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In places in the sample code where I have seen it #define'd, it appears to be 32 hex characters punctuated by four short dashes like d9543b0c-3c91-11d4-97bc-00b0d0204936. Is this something the writer of a plug-in generates like an RFC1321 checksum? If so how does one generate it, or is done by Photoshop, and there is some call somewhere in the API to read it? I haven't found any enlightenment on it doing a Find-in-Files over the whole SDK file structure.
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Mike
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February 8, 2007
Thanks X, that got something working for me.

Mike
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February 7, 2007
Michael_D_McGuire@adobeforums.com wrote:
> In places in the sample code where I have seen it #define'd, it appears to be 32 hex characters punctuated by four short dashes like d9543b0c-3c91-11d4-97bc-00b0d0204936. Is this something the writer of a plug-in generates like an RFC1321 checksum? If so how does one generate it, or is done by Photoshop, and there is some call somewhere in the API to read it? I haven't found any enlightenment on it doing a Find-in-Files over the whole SDK file structure.

It's a UUID. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID for details.

There are several UUID generators on the web including this one:
http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen

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