SDK missing PrSDK.lib

[SinaNJ]

I am making a plug-in using AI. AI asks for PrSDK.lib.

Premiere Pro 24.0 SDK missing PrSDK.lib—where’s the full C++ SDK?

[Bruce Bullis]

You have the full SDK; we have no idea what "AI" means, when it asks for that.

[SinaNJ]

Thanks for replying.

First, I have a very general understanding of programming.
I'm using ChatGPT and Grok to create a tool I need.

During the process, Grok asked for the PrSDK.lib file, but I couldn't find it in the SDK I downloaded from Adobe's website.
It also claims that the Premiere Pro SDK zip file should be 20–50 MB, which is why I asked my question.

That said, I'd appreciate it if you could give me a hint on what to do next.

[Bruce Bullis]

Grok is 100% wrong, above. Keep in mind; neither Grok nor ChatGPT have ever successfully created ANY plugins for PPro. 🙂

>I'd appreciate it if you could give me a hint on what to do next.

What is it you're trying to write a plugin, to actually do?

[SinaNJ]

There are a lot of tools I’d like to create, but I wanted to test both these tools (and myself) by having them create this first:
As in other Adobe software, I wanted the space bar to act as the hand tool while it’s held down.

I managed to achieve this using AutoHotkey along with some coding through Grok.
It worked fine at first, but I ran into a problem I couldn’t solve — so I decided to try implementing it in Visual Studio instead.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There is no API that will allow your code to forcibly change the current tool. 

[SinaNJ]

The idea I implemented using AHK was this:

If the space bar is held down for more than xx milliseconds, AHK maps it to H (hand tool) while it's held. As soon as it's released, it's remapped to V (selection tool).

It worked as intended, but a problem arose when I typed at a certain speed — unwanted H and V characters would appear whenever I pressed the space bar.

This happens because AHK doesn’t recognize when a text input panel (like a search bar or a text layer) is active, so it applies the mapping regardless.

The goal now is to reimplement this logic, but with an added condition: if the API can detect when a text-related panel is selected, we can skip the remapping process in those cases.

With that said — isn’t it possible to do this?