How access ADMItems in Preference dialog added by plugin?

[jdyyz]

SDK provide GetPreferencePanelBaseItemIndex() and GetPreferencePanelItemRef(), how access admitems in preferences panel through them?

Thanks!

hanyang.

[A. Patterson]

I messed around with this a little a few years ago, so my recollections are sketchy. If I'm remembering right though, that API lets you added panels to the Illustrator preference dialog. I believe they're just regular ADM dialogs that you 'index' into the preference set, and functionally they act just as if they were stand alone dialogs.

That said, if you're trying to use it to access built-in Illustrator preferences, I don't think that's the way to go -- I'm not even sure it's possible. If you're just trying to get a preference value you can ask for it using the AIPreferencesSuite -- just look up the name in the AIPrefs file. There are no 'secret' prefs in AI, everything is published in there.

If you're trying to get at items in your own dialog, I'm stumped. Because as I said, my understanding was that it was just like a regular dialog. As I said though, it's been a long time since I looked at this.

[jdyyz]

Thanks a lot, A.Patterson!

I want to get/set/notify items in my won preference dialog, and SDK seem don't provide function to do. Why??

Thanks again!

hanyang.

[A. Patterson]

I'm afraid I didn't do more than poke around with that interface. I noted there was some weird stuff with regard to layout but it seemed like it was a pretty ordinary dialog other than that -- just 'embedded' in their Preferences framework dialog. Are you saying that you can't use the usual methods & classes to interact with your own items? That seems strange, since I assumed this API meant they were using it themselves!