Where to start developing extensions for Adobe Illustrator 2024?

[LIZ AMERICA33305988ozga]

I  already have experience with Extended Script Toolkit but want to develop dockable plugins and I believe it can only be achieved with Adobe UX Developer Tool however there is no option in Playground to connect to Illustrator 2024.

[erinferinferinf]

Hi there!

So the "UX" Developer Tool you've screencaptured here is actually the "UXP Developer Tool". UXP is the Unified Extensibility Platform, a modern JavaScript environment. At the time of this writing, only Photoshop, InDesign, and Adobe XD support UXP. Illustrator does not have UXP adoption on their roadmap currently.

If you're still able to run ExtendScript Toolkit you can keep using it to develop for Illustrator. If not, there's a VS Code plugin for debugging ExtendScript. Note that on M1 and M2 macs you'll need to run that in Rosetta 2 mode.

[LIZ AMERICA33305988ozga]

thanks. However I am not able to create "dockable" palettes with ES Toolkit. I guess the other option would be CEP.
I use Windows 10 and CC 2024

[ErinF]

🤔 Were you previously able to create dockable palettes or is this something you're attempting for the first time? ... I think in CEP people call them "panels".

But yes, you're right, your options are:

• CEP Cookbook
  • Getting started with CEP
• Illustrator's C++ SDK

[LIZ AMERICA33305988ozga]

I have succesfully developed "dialog" panels for Illustrator with ES Toolkit. I have tried creating dockable panels this way:

// Create a new dialog window
var dialog = new Window("palette", "My Custom Dialog");

// Create a panel to hold the button
var panel = dialog.add("panel", undefined, "Panel");
panel.alignChildren = "center";

// Create a button
var button = panel.add("button", undefined, "Click Me!");
button.onClick = function() {
    alert("Button clicked!");
}

// Show the dialog
dialog.show();

with no success.
I mean, it works while working directly within ES Toolkit but once I place the .jsx file in--> Adobe Illustrator 2024\Presets\es_ES\Secuencias de comandos.....it won´t work. Nothing shows.