Plugin Creation in InDesign

[Nithu_S]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to this community I have tried in creating a new plugin using the sample SDK called (BasicPanel). I have included the interfaces and action ID which is required for creating the new plugin at the same time I have added some code in C++ using the reference book (programming guide volume 1). But I have some doubt after adding the code and some doubts are how to get the values in Alert box and how to add the values inside the text box which is displayed in the Alert box. Please clarify the doubt and I'll wait for the valuable response for my queries.

Regards,

Nithu S

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi Nithu,

Alertbox is simply a box that can display string values. Showing it is just a single line of code like

CAlert::InformationAlert("This is my message")

You can't add any other UI element like textbox inside an alert.

If however you are talking about a dialog or a panel, these can host different UI elements. The basic structure is to create UI by defining it in the fr file, the fr file also associates these UI elements to their counterpart cpp files that define the behaviour for them like controllers, observers, responders etc. It would be helpful if you read the programming guide and study the sample code for BasicDialog and BasicPanel, start from the fr file and resolve the connections on how different pieces of code integrate with each other

-Manan

[Nithu_S]

Hi Manan,

I'm referring the programming guides based on your suggestion and I have an doubt in Boss class what is the use of base class in the code.

[Manan Joshi]

Refer the documentation shipped with sdk for a detailed descrption on boss class. Look at docs/html folder open any html file and in the left hand tree structure go into Getting started and read the section "Using boss classes in plugins". See screenshot below

-Manan

[Nithu_S]

Hi Manan,

thanks for your guide.