Introducing… Adobe PatchPanel!
Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PatchPanel, Adobe Photoshop, ExtendScript' Add commentsAdobe PatchPanel, the two Flex libraries for creating Flash Plug-ins that automate and extend the capabilities of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign CS3 + CS4 applications, is now live on Adobe Labs! [If you prefer to automate and extend these CS applications from your own Adobe AIR application, refer to the Flex libraries called Adobe SwitchBoard.] PatchPanel enables Flex developers the ability to access the ExtendScript DOM of PS, AI or ID through ActionScript objects. What does this really mean? Code completion, hinting, etc. for ExtendScripts is all available through Flex Builder. It’s a dream come true for ExtendScript developers.
The PatchPanel home page is:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/PatchPanel
The PatchPanel User Forum can be found at:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=668&entercat=y
If you are interested in PatchPanel and SwitchBoard you might find the talk that Bernd Paradies gave at the 360flex conference this year helpful:
http://onflash.org/ted/2008/10/360flex-sj-2008-patchpanelswitchboard.php
If you’re interested in how PatchPanel, SwitchBoard and ExtendScript Toolkit came to life, check out this interview with the main guys behind them: 2 Interviews: The guys behind ExtendScript ToolKit, SwitchBoard + PatchPanel
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