PlugIn name is not showing in menu

[dearvivekkumar]

Hi,

I have created a automation plug-in from scratch and I have all the instruction given in the documentaion for creating plugin in MAC OS. But i am facing a very pecuilar problem, ie, i am not getting my plugin name Under File -> Automate -> MyPlugin... when i am running the photoshop application from finder.

But When i am debugging my plugin from Xcode then in this case the Plugin name MyPlugin... is coming. The have tried with deleting my preferences too but still hanging around the same problem.

I am not getting the reason behind this .... any idea will be appreciated.

Thanks

[ilvar]

If you are not seeing your plugin under automation it means it wasn't loaded. There could be multiple reasons for it, from being unable to resolve in run-time all the required libraries to problems with the PIPL or with your own code  (exceptions on startup, for instance). Its hard for me to tell what your specific problem is, but as it work ok from your debugging environment, I would probably suspect the former - library dependencies (for Mac `otool` and `installnametool` are the keywords here).

In general, I would recommend starting with a working Adobe sample automation plugin and then work your way step-by-step to add your code, external libraries etc. If things break at some step you don't have to chase the issue for too long

[dvkkk · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your response first.

Yeah it's always advisable to start making from the existing samples. But For learning purpose i had started like so. Thanks for the clue you have given, I ll try to find out.