InDesign CC2018: UI not showing on Windows

[Stefan Rakete]

Hi,

I have built a CEP panel with a few buttons and tested fine on Mac / InDesign CC 2018.

Then I zipped the extension folder to a windows machine and copied to

Program files ...\CEP\extensions running also InDesign CC208.

To my surprise: the panel shows in Window > Extensions but the panel is empty. My buttons and the edittext is gone.

Anybody knows what I am missing ?

Thanks Stefan

[Trevor: · Accepted solution]

One possibility is that you didn't set AutoVisible to true. The Mac is much less fussy about that, also app dependent.

<Lifecycle>
    <AutoVisible>true</AutoVisible>
</Lifecycle>

You should make sure debug is set properly see

Setting Cep Debug Mode and Log Level the Easy Way | Creative-Scripts.com

In short from CMD

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\CSXS.8 /t REG_SZ /v PlayerDebugMode /d 1 /f

Change the 8 to whatever value you need

See also CSTK In Adobe App Console and Development Tool | Creative-Scripts.com  for auto setting of the debug.

HTH

Trevor