Adobe Acrobat 8 Plug-in GUI issues in Mac OS 10.4.11 using XCode 2.5

Question

I am trying to port my plug-in to Acrobat 8. I have been maintaining this plug-in from Acrobat 5 on both PC and Mac. I am now having some trouble with the UI components of the Plug-in on the Mac. I can load and debug my plug-in on Acrobat 8, however my toolbar does not show up. Also, the modal dialog box that needs to launch does not. I am having trouble locating an example, or some documentation.
For the Toolbar button, I am using the following code from the Stamper example.
void *GetStamperToolButtonIcon(void)
#ifdef MAC_PLATFORM
extern CFBundleRef gPluginBundle;
AVIconDataRec iconData;
// Find a resource in the plugin bundle by name and type.
CFURLRef pingURL = CFBundleCopyResourceURL( gPluginBundle,
CFSTR("StamperIcon"),
CFSTR("png"),
NULL );
ASFile asf = NULL;
ASPathName aspn = ASFileSysCreatePathName (NULL,ASAtomFromString("CFURLRef"),
pingURL, NULL);
ASFileSysOpenFile(NULL, aspn, ASFILE_READ, &asf);
ASUns32 dataSize = ASFileGetEOF(asf);
ASUns8 *data = (ASUns8 *)ASmalloc(dataSize + 1);
ASFileRead(asf, (char *)data, dataSize);
ASFileClose(asf);
iconData.dataStm = ASMemStmRdOpen((char *)data, dataSize);
iconData.eColorFormat = kAVIconColor;
return AVAppCreateIconBundle6(kAVIconPNG, &iconData, 1);
#elif WIN_PLATFORM
return(AVCursor)LoadBitmap(gHINSTANCE, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1));
#endif
This works for the stamper, and correctly displays the Stamper Icon in the toolbar, but when I try to create a new PNG file with the same name, the button no longer works. Also, if I try to change the name of the PNG file to "MyTool.png" and then the reference from CFSTR("StamperIcon") to CFSTR("MyTool") the button no longer works. Does anyone have any insight? In my research, I have come across SafeGetResource, and using the resource chain, however, I can not get this to work either.
The Modal Dialog I am trying to display is in a RSRC file, and it does not launch when I call sADMDialog->Modal() like it does in Acrobat 7, 6, and 5. Are there any Mac examples of plug-ins that use ADM, or platform specific Modal Dialog Boxes?
I have read the SDK documentation, but I can not find any code samples.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank You,
Austin

Answer 1

As of now I am unable to link up the objective c cocoa code when I build the plug-in. I can compile but not link. The error I get is below. Note that is that there is a -framework Carbon flag, but no -framework Cocoa flag. I have modified the Stamper example plug-in provided with the SDK and I can not find how to tweak the project settings to use the cocoa framework. If I can not figure out this linking problem, I will create a small project demonstrating the issues I am having and I will post it.
Ld "/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat 8 SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/MacShoomTool8.build/Default/MacShoomTool8_debug.build/Objects-normal/i386/M acShoomTool8" normal i386
cd "/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat 8 SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac"
/Developer/usr/bin/g++-4.0 -o /Applications/Adobe/Acrobat\ 8\ SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/MacShoomTool8.build/Default/MacShoomTool8_debug.build/Objects-normal/i386/M acShoomTool8 -L/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat\ 8\ SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/Default -F/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat\ 8\ SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/Default -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Headers -F. -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/Curr ent -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/He aders -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/Curr ent/Headers -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks -filelist /Applications/Adobe/Acrobat\ 8\ SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/MacShoomTool8.build/Default/MacShoomTool8_debug.build/Objects-normal/i386/M acShoomTool8.LinkFileList -framework Carbon -framework ApplicationServices -arch i386 -exported_symbols_list Symbols.exp -Wl,-Y,1455 -bundle -mmacosx-version-min=10.3 -Wl,-dead_strip -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
/Developer/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: Undefined symbols:
_objc_msgSend
.objc_class_name_NSObject
/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat 8 SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/MacShoomTool8.build/Default/MacShoomTool8_debug.build/Objects-normal/i386/S hoomToolUI.o reference to undefined _objc_msgSend
/Applications/Adobe/Acrobat 8 SDK/Version2/PluginSupport/Samples/MacShoomTool8/mac/BuildResults/obj/MacShoomTool8/MacSh oomTool8_debug/MacShoomTool8.build/Default/MacShoomTool8_debug.build/Objects-normal/i386/S hoomToolController.o reference to undefined .objc_class_name_NSObject
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status