try this: LogBook logs You can use the LogBook application to track logging messages sent between the various platform components. To use this application for logging: 1. Include this code in your application main MXML file so LogBook can listen to and display the logging      information traced by your extension: var loggingTarget:LocalConnectionTarget = new LocalConnectionTarget("_test"); loggingTarget.filters=["*"]; loggingTarget.level = LogEventLevel.ALL; loggingTarget.includeDate = true; loggingTarget.includeTime = true; l oggingTarget.includeCategory = true; loggingTarget.includeLevel = true; logger = Log.getLogger(this.className); logger.info("my message"); 2. Go to http://code.google.com/p/cimlogbook/downloads/list and download LogBook-1.3.air 3. Install the AIR application and start it. 4. Enter the local connection name, as passed into the constructor of LocalConnectionTarget. In the example, this is '_test'. 5. Start the host application and open your extension. You should see log messages in LogBook. 6. To listen to internal messages set the local connection name in logbook to '_csxs2' ... View more

you should give a look at this: http://cssdk.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sdk/1.5/docs/WebHelp/programmers_guide/debugging.htm#Profiling_an_extension Explanations about debugging and logging creative suite extension.  ... View more

When a mask is created by Adobe Illustrator, the clipping group’s first child is the clipping path. ... View more

Test in progress...... ... View more

1- first thing that you have to do is to check object type. 2- if AIArtHandle is kGroupArt, you need to check the clipped property. //Check object type: if((objectType == kGroupArt)) {        error = sAIGroup->GetGroupClipped(*iter, &isClippingGroup);        aisdk::check_ai_error(error); } 3- And if is the case, you have to get the bounding box of the clipping path.     here is the trick. AIBoolean isClippingGroup = false; AIRealRect artBounds; if(isClippingGroup) {    // get clipping art bounds instead     AIArtHandle child;     error = sAIArt->GetArtFirstChild(*iter, &child);     aisdk::check_ai_error(error);     error = sAIArt->GetArtBounds(child, &artBounds);     aisdk::check_ai_error(error); } This should work! Thomas. ... View more

you should do this way: //Get Art Bounds for each AIArtHandle AIRealRect artBounds; error = sAIArt->GetArtBounds(*iter, &artBounds); aisdk::check_ai_error(error); //Compute selection bouding box. AIRealRect& boundingBox; //for each selected AIArtHandle, bouding box needs to be updated. (loop) if(boundingBox.left > artBounds.left)      boundingBox.left = artBounds.left; if(boundingBox.top < artBounds.top)      boundingBox.top = artBounds.top; if(boundingBox.right < artBounds.right)      boundingBox.right = artBounds.right; if(boundingBox.bottom > artBounds.bottom)      boundingBox.bottom = artBounds.bottom; Finally, you will have your selection bounding box. ... View more

what csxs event are you listening to? com.illustrator. ???? Are you sure not having an other extension raising the same event? (Illustrator sample for instance).  ... View more

What you could do is: 1- to get all selected arts. (use SDK api to get selection or do a recursive treewalk).  2- parse selected arts, and for each art, check art property (visible). 3- and then compute selection bounds if art is visible. -> this way you will get selection bounds. Thomas. ... View more

CSXS events are used to make flash-based extension and c++ plugin share datas. Important: There are not notifiers!!!!   Your c++ plugin can subscribe to csxs events raised by your extension. In the same way your extension can subscribe to csxs events raised by ypur plugin. Give a look to programmers guide, in communication between plug-ins and extesnions section. All is detailed. In both cases (flex, c++), you have to register event listeners and implement event handlers. If you need some samples, let me know! You will have to find a name for each event you will create. ex: com.toto.extension.event_raised. Thomas. ... View more

You have to read carefully the sdk documentation (programmers guide). Illustrator plugin system is described. What is a plugin, types of plugins, how it works, how it is loaed, ...... You will learn many, many things. A plugin could be loaded during Illustrator startup and only unloaded at Illustrator shutdown. This plugin could do his "magic" during all that session. And It does not have to be a tool.  Notifiers: Plugin must register for the notifiers in which it is interested. The Notifier Suite is used to register and remove notification requests. (See AINotifierSuite). Here it is a sample how it sould be implemented in your plugin. myPlugin.h: //Methods to be implemented. ASErr StartupPlugin(SPInterfaceMessage* message); ASErr AddNotifiers(SPInterfaceMessage* message); ASErr Notify(AINotifierMessage* message); myPlugin.cpp: 1- During startup, you have to register to notifications. (AddNotifiers). /* */ ASErr myPlugin::StartupPlugin(SPInterfaceMessage *message) {       ASErr error = Plugin::StartupPlugin( message );       if (error) { return error; }       error = AddNotifiers(message);       if (error) { return error; }      return error;      // If StartupPlugin returns an error instead of kNoErr, Illustrator      // will try to load this plug-in again later. } 2- subscribe to notifiers.  kAICSXSPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier in this sample. ASErr myPlugin::AddNotifiers(SPInterfaceMessage* message) {           ASErr error = kNoErr;        error = sAINotifier->AddNotifier(message->d.self, "myPlugin" kAICSXSPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier,                              kAICSXSPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier, &fCSXSPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier);               if (error) { return error; }      return error; } 3- handler (when the notification has been raised). /* */ ASErr myPlugin::Notify(AINotifierMessage* message) {           ASErr error = kNoErr;                  if ( message->notifier == fCSXSPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier )                {             //Do the magic here..........                    }          return error; } I hope this will help. Thomas. ... View more

Extension A and Extension B do not raise the same csxs event? So, even if you have uninstalled one of them, your plugin keeps on triggering on this csxs event. Or try to give a look in this directory: Mac: /Users/toto/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CS5.5 (or CS6)ServiceManager/extensions. Win: c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CS5.5ServiceManager\extensions you may be find something in here.......  the extension you have debugged. Just erase it. That should do the trick.  ... View more

Have you ever tried using FlashBuilder for developping your extension? Are you sure having reoving the extension generated by lashBuiider? (debug). ... View more

No yet, but I will asap and let you know if it works. ... View more

This is quite confusing. Not being able to start porting our stuff just because definitve tools are not released yet. ... View more

So you have already port all your stuff to CC? To do that you just have to compile against the right revision of Qt, and that's all? I guess I should consider this option in the near future. ... View more

What about using tools provided by Adobe to create UI. Eclipse and Extension Buidler 3.0, to create the HTML5-based extension containing the UI. Xcode or Visual Studio and Illustrator CC SDK to create the plugin. Then using events to make them communicate. But right now, I do not know how to correctly create this extension and how to share datas with my c++ plugin. Documentations provided by Adobe are not finished yet, I guess. - Adobe has just provided a pre-alpha revision of Extension Builder 3.0 ? - There is no explanations in the CC SDK documentation on how c++ plugin could communicate with HTML-based       extension. - Flash-based extensions will be deprecated. I need to port all I have already done to CC, but I don't know how to do such a thing..... ... View more

I got in mind the way flash-based extension and c++ plugin work. - UI defined in the extension. - Logic, business model in the c++ plugin. - And finally CSXS events to make them share the datas. Effectively, with Qt or such library, there is no such process to share the datas. My explanation was not clear at all ... View more

As far as I know, the only way to design illustrator panel is - to use FlashBuilder and Extension Builder to create a flash-based extesion. (CS5-CS6). (flex). - or to use a third party library to design it (such Qt). - For Creative Cloud extensions/plugins panel, you will have to use HTML5.   (flash-based extension will be deprecated). Thomas. ... View more

There is no UI included in this project. This UI is included in the project SnippetRunnerUI. (the flash based extension containing the UI). In the output durectory, you will find the zxp to be installed. (using extension manager). After having installed it, you could debug the c++ plugin. Thomas. ... View more

You can easily do that using Adobe Illustrator SDK. 1- You just have to make a recursive treewalk of the document model. 2- Then you could implement a visitor to serialize this the way you want. Illustrator SDK provides all the api and the tool to make this job done. Thomas. ... View more

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. ... View more

I have never had such issue with that suite and this method, as far as I could remenber. I have always succeded to retrieve the name entered in the layer palette, that is why I'm quite surprise. ... View more

Have you considered using flash extensions for doing this. Your c++ plugin will have to communicate to your flash extension, which will be in charge of broadcasting informations to third party application. This is could be easy done using flex and should work on Win and Mac OS X. ... View more

hello, you could try something as below: for a given AIArtHandle (the object you want to retrieve the name), use GetArtName method from AIArt suite. std::string ArtHelper::Name( AIArtHandle art ) {         ai::UnicodeString outUnicodeName;         sAIArt->GetArtName( art, outUnicodeName, nil );         return outUnicodeName.getInStdString( kAIPlatformCharacterEncoding ); } Hope this will help. Thomas. ... View more

Have you ever considered using Flash Panels for UI? This is working pretty well on Win and MAC. ... View more

just follow those stpes: 1- download Xcode revisions: 3.2.6 and 4.6.3. 2- go there: https://github.com/devernay/xcodelegacy 3- get XcodeLegacy.sh. 4- then follow the instructions (buildpackages, install).... 5- open your project.      -> select the right compiler.      -> modify few options in your project settings (sdks, paths, ....). 6- this should be ok. So, I could only use xcode 5 for CS5, CS6 and CC projects. Hoping this will help! Thomas. ... View more

I have finally succeeded, using Xcode5. This was not so complicated. Some modifications needed to be done on Xcode (add deprecated compilers and sdk). Once this has been done, CS5 and CS6 pluggins could be compiled and run easily. Mac OS X 10.8.5. Xcode 5. ... View more

Could you tell us how to do? I have got the same issue using Xcode 5 on Mac OS X 10.8. ... View more