plugin on mac - UI?

[panduvittala]

I was porting my plugin from CS5 to CS6. I am using wxWidgets for UI now. I faced lot of issues with modal dialogs, illustrator alert window on modal dialog, etc etc on windows platform. Now I have got it working fairly well. But I read somewhere that wxwidgets on osx is not so good. Now I am thinking of moving to Qt. I wanted to know how well Qt based plugin works in mac env, what are the common issues, etc - In particular, handling events, making dialogs modal.

Thanks in advance.

[A. Patterson]

Qt works fine, we've been using it for ages. The main dialog concerns are little things like you need to disable the menu bar manually (and re-enable it when you're done). If you're looking to use Qt in a panel it gets trickier, but just popping dialogs is (I believe) fairly straight forward.

[Toto RoToTO]

Have you ever considered using Flash Panels for UI?

This is working pretty well on Win and MAC.

[A. Patterson]

Just an FYI, Flash-based plugins are deprecated and will only work for a while longer. They're replacing them with a similar HTML-based framework sometime next year.

[Toto RoToTO]

Flash-based extensions will be deprecated for CC extension with the release of ExtensionBuilder 3.0.

But flash-based extensions will keep working for CS5 and CS6 applications.

But you are right, this is not the solution to choose if you want to make an hybrid extension for CC.