With Photoshop CC 2014.2 (implementing CEP 5.2) it’s finally possible to have flyout menus in HTML Panels too – as we had back in Flash land. This Tip shows you how to set them and deal with their click handler.
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As a HTML Panels Tips: #10 Packaging / ZXP Installers follow-up, in this tip I will show you how to automate (i.e. make less error prone) the utterly annoying job of building ZXP installers: i.e. with the help of Gulp.js, a task runner based on Node.js.
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HTML Panels can listen to CEP Application Events – that is to say, Events dispatched by the Host (Photoshop, InDesign…) when something related to the app itself, or its documents, happens.
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The new CEP5 (from Photoshop CC 2014 onwards) has introduced the possibility to dispatch Custom Events from JSX and listen to them in the HTML Panel – this Tip shows you how to implement this communication.
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I’ve created a new project on my GitHub account where I will collect both Boilerplate code for HTML Panels and other Demo extensions – it’s called PS-Panels-Boilerplate.
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While there is a more user friendly app such as Adobe Packager which is a great simple app for simple needs, I will show you how to custom build ZXP installers for:
- HTML Extensions
- Bundled Flash + HTML Extensions
- Hybrid Extensions (Panel + Plug-ins / Assets, etc)
using the ZXPSignCmd, the ucf.jar command line tools, and custom MXI files.
How to make the HTML Panel’s session persist even if the panel is closed in Photoshop.
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There’s a second way to listen to Photoshop Events from an HTML Panel – i.e. using the PSHostAdapters libraries – and today’s tip will show you how.
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