Adobe Illustrator CC Programmer’s Guide Pg En

• Preface
  • Terminology and notational conventions
  • Supporting documentation
  • Sample code
• Overview
  • What is a plug-in?
  • A brief history of the Adobe Illustrator API
  • Anatomy of a plug-in
  • Types of plug-ins
    • Action plug-ins
    • Plug-in file formats
    • Plug-in filters
    • Plug-in menu commands
    • Plug-in notifiers and timers
    • Plugin-group plug-ins
    • Plug-in tools
    • Combining multiple plug-in types
  • Where plug-ins live
  • What defines a plug-in?
  • PiPL resources
  • Plug-in management
  • Plug-in entry point and messages
    • Message actions: callers and selectors
    • Core message actions
    • Reload and unload messages
    • Start-up and shut-down messages
    • Notifiers
    • Handling callers and selectors
    • Message data
      • Live Effect messages
  • Illustrator API
    • Suites
    • Acquiring and releasing suites
    • Publishing suites
    • Binary compatibility
    • Illustrator's artwork as seen by a plug-in
    • Cross-platform support
    • Memory
    • Resources
    • Byte information and structures
    • System requirements
    • Helper classes
  • Plug-in adapters
  • About Plug-ins menu
  • Next steps
• Tutorial
  • PiPL resource and plug-in entry point
  • Handling callers and selectors
  • Using suites and callback functions
    • Acquiring and releasing suites and calling suite functions
    • Illustrator API suites
  • Callers and selectors
    • Caller: kSPInterfaceCaller, selector: kSPInterfaceStartupSelector
    • Caller: kSPInterfaceCaller, selector: kSPInterfaceShutdownSelector
    • Caller: kSPAccessCaller, selector: kSPAccessReloadSelector
    • Caller: kSPAccessCaller, selector: kSPAccessUnloadSelector
  • Plug-in type-specific messages
    • Filter plug-ins
    • Tool plug-ins
    • Action plug-ins
      • Registering action events
      • Recording action events
      • Responding to the DoAction selector
      • Playing action events
    • Menu plug-ins
  • Next steps
• Creating a Flash UI for Plug-ins
  • Creative Suite extensions
    • About the Adobe Creative Suite SDK
  • Communication between plug-ins and extensions
    • Using the PlugPlug API
    • Using the CSXS API
  • Delivering a plug-in with a Flash UI
    • Build and install the C++ plug-in
    • Build the Flash extension
    • Install the extension
• Plug–in Techniques
  • Plug-in property lists
    • PiPL samples
    • PiPL structure
    • Required PiPL properties
    • Optional PiPL properties
    • Export property
    • For more information
  • Handling Live Effects
    • Adding functionality to a Live Effect menu item
      • Editing effect parameters
      • Applying the effect
• Index