Creating Extensions - How to get started?

[Jason Lampitt]

I've been snooping around for some tutorials or information on how I can get started on building extensions for Dreamweaver CS3 but I'm not turning up much. Does anyone have any sources for this sort of thing?

Also, generally speaking, can you build the GUI for the extension in Flash/Flex and have the GUI communicate with, say, the desktop through the Dreamweaver API?

[Randy Edmunds]

Jason,

I mention a few resources in this blog post:

http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2009/02/extending_dreamweaver_getting.html

The SDK mentioned in the comments can be found here:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1009962

You'll get a few errors about menu items that can't be put in the specified location, but they are added in the Commands menu, so all functionality is there. That error has been fixed, but that extension has not yet been updated on the Exchange.

Starting in CS4, you can use Flash for UI, but I don't think you can access anything outside of DW. There's documentation here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_API_Ref/WS4FB61645-9C4E-4667-B6D4-0E5F553BEF4F.html

HTH,

Randy Edmunds

[The1Morph]

Hi! the extension for the SDK is for DW MX 2004... do you know from where we can take an extension for DW CS4 SDK?

[Randy Edmunds]

Everything in the MX 2004 SDK is still valid for CS4.

A new SDK is being put together for CS4, but there's really not much new stuff. I think it's mainly fixes the warnings due to new menu items not being put in the correct place.

HTH,

Randy