Scriptable plugin in Illustrator

[alam_84]

Hi All,

I am a regular plugin developer for InDesign and now I just started plugin development for Illustrator

As in InDesign we have a concept of making plugin scriptable means plugin can expose some method/property to an existing DOM object so that we can access that method in scripting DOM.

e.g I have added a method HelloWorld in the document object in C++ native plugin and in jsx script we can access that method as follows

app.activeDocument.HelloWorld() // exposed method in C++ plugin is accessible in scripting DOM

Does we have same scriptable plugin feature in Illustrator? means adding a method in C++ plugin, expose it and make it accessible in scripting DOM.?

Regards,

Alam

[LeoTaro]

I don't this functionality is available in Illustrator plugins.

[A. Patterson]

Actually, you can add scripting to an AI plugin, but it's limited. You can expose scripting support but it requires the script to perform a LoadLibrary() call on your plugin before your scripting is available. I've only just begun to play around with this myself but it seems promising (it'd be nicer if our scripting could just be there when our plugin was loaded, but you take what you can get).

I think this is what you want:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/scripting/estk.html

If you run the installer inside, I believe you'll end up with an SDK folder somewhere. Look for:

SoCClient.h

SoSharedLibDefs.h

Those are the headers you need. You'll have to piece together how to do it from the sketchy documentation, but it's not as bad as that sounds.

[grg79]

I'm also interested in making a plugin that can be called via script.

I am a beginner in creating plugins...

Do you know where I can find indications or examples?

Thanks