Drawbot example doesn't work on AE 2014

[kotuk81]

Hi All,

I've pretty strange issue while running the CCU example.

Whenever I use the 2014 AE SDK everything is fine.

Whenever I use the 2015 AE SDK the example works fine for  AE 2015/2015.3 but crashes on AE 2014.

Digging slightly into the code I saw that the issue happens when drawbot suite is acquired.

In the function "AEFX_AcquireDrawbotSuites" in the AEFX_SuiteHelper.c, the third acquire fails with the following error:  PF_Err_BAD_CALLBACK_PARAM

Any ideas why that can happen?

PF_Err AEFX_AcquireDrawbotSuites(

PF_InData

*in_data,

/* >> */

PF_OutData

*out_data,

/* >> */

DRAWBOT_Suites

*suitesP)

/* << */

{

	PF_Err			err = PF_Err_NONE;
	if (suitesP == NULL) {
		out_data->out_flags |= PF_OutFlag_DISPLAY_ERROR_MESSAGE;

PF_SPRINTF(out_data->return_msg, "NULL suite pointer passed to AEFX_AcquireDrawbotSuites");

		err = PF_Err_UNRECOGNIZED_PARAM_TYPE;
	}

	if (!err) {
		err = AEFX_AcquireSuite(in_data, out_data, kDRAWBOT_DrawSuite, kDRAWBOT_DrawSuite_VersionCurrent, NULL, (void **)&suitesP->drawbot_suiteP);
	}
	if (!err) {
		err = AEFX_AcquireSuite(in_data, out_data, kDRAWBOT_SupplierSuite, kDRAWBOT_SupplierSuite_VersionCurrent, NULL, (void **)&suitesP->supplier_suiteP);
	}
	if (!err) {
		err = AEFX_AcquireSuite(in_data, out_data, kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite, kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_VersionCurrent, NULL, (void **)&suitesP->surface_suiteP);
	}
	if (!err) {
		err = AEFX_AcquireSuite(in_data, out_data, kDRAWBOT_PathSuite, kDRAWBOT_PathSuite_VersionCurrent, NULL, (void **)&suitesP->path_suiteP);
	}
	return err;

}

[Christian Lett · Accepted solution]

This is because the macro kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_VersionCurrent points to a version of the surface suite that isn't supported in AE2014. I had this problem and found the best way to get round it is to edit the file AEFX_SuiteHelper.c directly, replacing it with kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_Version1, so:

err = AEFX_AcquireSuite(in_data, out_data, kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite, kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_Version1, NULL, (void **)&suitesP->surface_suiteP);

You could instead edit DrawbotSuite.h, changing the macro kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_VersionCurrent to kDRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite_Version1, and leaving AEFX_SuiteHelper.c as it was.

[kotuk81]

Thanks a lot, Christian,

That worked for me))