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Hi, I am trying to develop a filter plug in for photoshop. I would like to do that using photpshop ADM. I am very new to using photoshop and the SDK. I started to dive into it a couple of days ago. I went thro’ the plug-ins guide, ADM guide, some other documents (of ofcourse related to photoshop:))& also the sample codes that we get with photoshop SDK 6.0.
They instead of clearing the route, confused me a lot:(
From the samples, what i noticed is that for the filter plugins the pluginmain() fucntion definition is different from that of other plugins. The definition for the plugin main is as follows:
DLLExport SPAPI void
PluginMain(const int16 selector,
FilterRecord* filterRecord,
int32* data,
int16* result);
(What abt the "caller" here??)
Whereas for the plugins that use ADM the fn. definition is as follows: DLLExport SPAPI SPErr
PluginMain(const char* caller, // who is calling
const char* selector, // what do they want
const void* data )// what is the message
Now my doubt is that, will i be able to use ADM in my plugin if i follow the first definition?? Is there any difference between the way we have to interpret the message from photoshop when a filter plugin is activated and other plugin is activated??
From where will i get the pointer to the caller, selector and data when i use the first definition. When i changed the definition as the second one i am not able to interpret the message:( Could anyone help me out or give me some pointers regarding this?? Kindly bear if it is very silly as i am a novice programmer in plugin development(just 2 days old!!:))
Thanks, Veena.
They instead of clearing the route, confused me a lot:(
From the samples, what i noticed is that for the filter plugins the pluginmain() fucntion definition is different from that of other plugins. The definition for the plugin main is as follows:
DLLExport SPAPI void
PluginMain(const int16 selector,
FilterRecord* filterRecord,
int32* data,
int16* result);
(What abt the "caller" here??)
Whereas for the plugins that use ADM the fn. definition is as follows: DLLExport SPAPI SPErr
PluginMain(const char* caller, // who is calling
const char* selector, // what do they want
const void* data )// what is the message
Now my doubt is that, will i be able to use ADM in my plugin if i follow the first definition?? Is there any difference between the way we have to interpret the message from photoshop when a filter plugin is activated and other plugin is activated??
From where will i get the pointer to the caller, selector and data when i use the first definition. When i changed the definition as the second one i am not able to interpret the message:( Could anyone help me out or give me some pointers regarding this?? Kindly bear if it is very silly as i am a novice programmer in plugin development(just 2 days old!!:))
Thanks, Veena.
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