Flash Plugins no longer working in 2015.3

[CESAmlaks]

Can anyone confirm whether Illustrator 2015.3 has stopped support for Flash/ActionScript extensions?

I installed 2015.3 this morning and none of the GUI's for the plugins appear.

Do we need to move to html GUIs are do we need to recompile or change them to make them work.

Are we actually just waiting for the 2015.3 SDK ??

Many thanks for you suggestions or help

Amy

[scottr12917177]

i updated to Illustrator 2015.3 and our Extensions load as empty panels now. I would be curious what changes they made that disabled extensions?

Best,

Scott

[Toto RoToTO]

You have to update the manifest file.

<HostList>
   <!-- Illustrator -->
   <Host Name="ILST" Version="[19.0,20.9]"/>

</HostList>

[Toto RoToTO · Accepted solution]

Flash based extensions are no longer supported in CC 2015.

You have to updated them for sure.

Take a look at the link below:

Adobe CEP · GitHub

you will find many informations you will need to start working.

(Documentations, samples, ....).

You should start readiing this:

CEP-Resources/CEP_7.0_HTML_Extension_Cookbook.pdf at master · Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources · GitHub

Thomas.

[GeghamB]

Where did you get that information from?

Are you sure? In Illustrator SDK programmer's guide written that we're free to use any ui framework.

[Toto RoToTO]

Extensions:

read this post:

Introducing HTML5 Extensions

Flash based extension are no longer supported.

You have to use HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

C++ Plugins:

You can still use any libraries you want for your c++ plugin (Qt or whatever) or use an HTML extension.

it's up to you!

[Toto RoToTO]

For C++ plugins you will have to use the latest sdk (15.3):

Adobe Illustrator SDKs | Adobe Developer Connection

[CESAmlaks]

Thanks for the answer, I think I had already come to that conclusion.

Has that been officially announced by Adobe?

I know they had mentioned they would be deprecated at some point but not when.

Scott

As Thomas suggests get the 2015.3 SDK.

Firstly switch your FlashUIController in your AIP to the new HtmlUIController (that's all I had to do in the AIP)

Then you need to construct an Html version of the ZXP using html and javascript.

I found the best two examples to copy to start with are MarkedObjectsUI and DrawArtUI both are in the SDK samples and have the AIP code there as well.

Good luck.

Amy

[scottr12917177]

I found the issue... I TOTALLY forgot that you have to set up a variable in your regedit when you working with "unsigned" extensions. <face palm>

I forgot that 2015.3 is a NEW install... and requires a NEW "PlayerDebugMode" variable in regedit for 2015.3

[Toto RoToTO]

this is gonna be a lot better now!

[CESAmlaks]

That wasn't my issue at all. 😞

Flash plugins still not working

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