15 Replies Latest reply: May 30, 2012 6:36 AM by Matt Dawson

Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole Mar 5, 2012 10:48 PM

1. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

JTV1234 Mar 7, 2012 11:43 AM (in response to Rob Cole)

Seconded.
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2. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

jarnoh Mar 7, 2012 9:45 PM (in response to Rob Cole)

There doesn't seem to be much new stuff, compared to SDK 3.0, I can see at least these files...

LrDigest
LrVideoExportPreset
LrPhotoPictureView

LR 3.6 also had LrSha256, but that's no longer provided with LR4?
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3. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole Mar 7, 2012 10:05 PM (in response to jarnoh)

Uh-oh. We got short-changed? Where/how did you find these namespaces?
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4. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

jarnoh Mar 7, 2012 10:35 PM (in response to Rob Cole)

find "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.app" | grep "/Lr"

I didn't actually try out if they work (apart from LrPhotoPictureView which was discussed in another thread)
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5. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Matt Dawson Mar 9, 2012 3:16 PM (in response to Rob Cole)

Hi

It hasn't been released yet, as you've implied. Not sure what the exact
timing for the release will be. I think they have waited till the first dot
release to publish the SDK for some previous versions. It certainly isn't
uncommon for the SDK doco to lag the official release by some time period.

It is coming. Just need to be a little more patient than we'd like!

Thanks, Matt
(Apologies for the brevity - sent from my Android)
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6. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Cornelia-I Apr 24, 2012 11:15 AM (in response to Matt Dawson)

Hi Matt,
I would be interested only in the description how to create my own templates for the book module in Scribus. I mean what properties the Scribus result needs to have in order to function as a template. And how I get this into LR4 to show up in the book module.
Could that be available already somewhere?

Thanks, Cornelia
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7. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole May 8, 2012 1:46 PM (in response to jarnoh)

Maybe there will be a whole bunch of new Lr... functions when 4.2 is released - I can't imagine them all being added to Lr4.1 final without having an RC3.

just idle speculation...

R
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8. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

John R. Ellis May 9, 2012 8:18 AM (in response to Rob Cole)

LrView.viewFactory appears to support these new methods:

square_button
catalog_photo
simple_list
scrolled_view

catalog_photo() has been discussed in another thread. The other three look curious. Scrollable lists and general scrollable views are understandable, given how many plugins have used less satisfactory approaches to scrolling. But what's a "square_button"?
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9. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole May 9, 2012 2:09 PM (in response to John R. Ellis)

John R. Ellis wrote:

square_button?

I can't imagine. - good question...

Perhaps it's like a clickable rectangular region, so you can make "image maps" like in html.

I guess no way to surmise function call parameters?
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10. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Blatman888 May 10, 2012 1:58 AM (in response to Rob Cole)

Tried the square_button in place of normal push_button in Web Gallery and it looked like this - worked too!
Will help with styling I guess ...
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11. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole May 10, 2012 2:35 PM (in response to Blatman888)

Thanks Blatman,

While a square button (& others) is nice, I sure hope Adobe has more in store...

Cheers,
Rob
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12. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole May 29, 2012 3:00 PM (in response to Rob Cole)

It appears to be released but download link is broken:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshoplightroom/sdk/eula_lr4.html

BUT YOU CAN GET IT FROM HERE: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/lightroom/sdk/Lightroom_SDK_4.0.zip
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13. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Cornelia-I May 30, 2012 1:44 AM (in response to Rob Cole)

The link worked well enough for me now.

But correct me if I'm wrong: there is nothing contained about creation of additional templates for the Book Module.
Even the word "book" exists exactly once in the manual-PDF, where it recommends sources how to learn LUA.

What a disappointment !

Looks as if Adobe have abandoned their half-baked Book Module immediately...
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14. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Rob Cole May 30, 2012 1:53 AM (in response to Cornelia-I)

Is book module template creation under the umbrella of the SDK? Maybe there is another resource for that??

PS - No square button documented in SDK 4, that I could find.
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15. Re: Where's the Lr4 SDK?

Matt Dawson May 30, 2012 6:36 AM (in response to Cornelia-I)

I've never seen anyone indicate that Book Module template creation would be covered by the SDK. The SDK is fundamentally for supporting development of plugins and web galleries and they both rely heavily upon LUA coding.

Matt
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