Hi,
I am very new to both Illustrator SDK and Adobe Illustrator software as well. My objective is to develop an illustrator plug-in for processing some eps file (for some other application). I downloaded the Illustrator SDK and tried to build the samples using Visual Studio Express Edition 2012. I got stuck as the samples seem to have used the MFC header file <afxres.h>, which is not included in VS 2012 Express Edition. Another forum member kindly pointed out that the samples do not use any MFC and advised me to replace afxres.h by windows.h. After this change I could build all the samples successfully. However, when I am running the Illustrator, I could not properly execute the main Tutorial (and several other) plug-in. For Tutorial, I see a menu option "Object->Filters->SDK->Tutorial..." coming and it gets enabled if I open a file in Illustrator. However, when I click this option nothing seems to happen (As per Adobe Start-up Guide, I should see a modal dialog box coming up), Same thing is happening in several other sample plug-ins like SnippetRunner, TransformButton, Webter etc., all of which are supposed to open a panel, but does not seem to be doing anything. However, some other plug-ins like Annotator, Multi-Arrow Tool, MenuPlay etc., which does not open a panel or dialog box but are related to user interface, are functioning properly. What can be the reason of this strange behavior? Is there any Illustrator option, which is preventing these panels from being created? Or is it somehow related to the afxres.h issue? I really think it is the first and being absolutely novice to Illustrator, I am missing out some obvious setting or something. Any help will be greatly appreciated as I really need to see the Tutorial sample as it has some functionality I want to use.
Thanks in advance,
Joydeep Ray