Debug plug-ins in XCode on Mac?

I'm a fairly seasoned plug-in developer on the Windows side (since Acrobat 4), and I know how do debug a plug-in in Visual Studio. I am now trying to debug a plug-in on the Mac with Acrobat 9. I remember that with previous Acrobat releases, I was able to attach the debugger to the Acrobat process. That does not seem to work with Acrobat 9. Am I doing something wrong? What's the recommended process to debug a plug-in on the Mac (besides using a ton of fprintf statements)?
Thanks,
Karl Heinz

That's good news... However, I must be doing something wrong. When I try to attach to the process, I get an error "No launchable executable present at path." This happens with the unmodified Starter plug-in from the SDK and my own code.
What's the trick to make this work?
Thanks,
Karl Heinz

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I'm just starting to develop plugins for InDesign CS6 on Mac OS X. After building the project, I currently move manually the plugin into the Plug-ins folder. It is said in the documentation that for having them directly into the Plugins folder, we need to specify it in the ID_SDK_DIR variable in each Target on Xcode. However, I can't find that variable anywhere and I have no idea what I should do in order to accomplish it.
Thank you in advance for your help, and I'm sorry if it's a very naive question.
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Dave

Hello,
Look for BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR.
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TUTORIAL: How to make PPC Plug-Ins work on Intel Macs!

Hi guys, I wanted to share this brillant method with you all, collect ideas and create a list of Plug-Ins, you have succeeded to make work (I guess nearly all PPc Plugs will work this way but lets better stick to facts). Maybe there is a way to work with more than 1 Plug - Feel free to report and contribute! Kudos goes to a dear friend of mine... Let' share some power...
"I noticed some people complaining about not being able to use Trilogy and Atmosphere on Intel Macs. There's a tricky way to do it that takes about ten minutes to set up the first time and after that is easy. It probably works for other PPC-only instruments as well.
Here's the outline: OSX for Intel contains a layer called Rosetta, which runs PPC software that hasn't been updated. (You might run Microsoft Word via Rosetta and not even know it.) In general, Rosetta is no good for audio software: you can't use it for a sequencer or a recording application. But it's good enough for a lightweight plugin host like Rax, which does nothing but serve as a host for Atmosphere. So you can load Atmosphere into Rax via Rosetta, then run it alongside a UB sequencer like Live or Logic.
The only tricky part is connecting the two together. You need to get MIDI out of your sequencer and into Rax, and you need to get audio out of Rax and back into the sequencer. The MIDI can go via an internal IAC bus. The audio can go via the handy freeware audio-routing utility Soundflower.
Here's how to set up:
-- download Rax version 1.2.3. (Version 2 and up won't work.) You can find it at http://macmusic.org/software/view.php?id=395 . Use the serial in SerialBox to install.
-- download and install Soundflower from http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower
-- in Audio MIDI Setup, create a new IAC bus. Instructions on how to do this are at http://www.spectrasonics.net/news/Creating-an-IAC-Bus.html . Name it Rhino. (You can name it whatever you want, but in these instructions I'm going to call it Rhino.)
Now you're ready to go.
-- Open your sequencer and create a MIDI track and an audio track. Set the MIDI track's output to Rhino. Set the audio track's input to Soundflower 2ch.
-- Open Rax and load Atmosphere. In the Preferences, go to the Audio tab and set Audio Device to Soundflower 2ch. Now go to the MIDI tab and, under MIDI Inputs, make sure Rhino is the only thing checked.
You should now be able to send MIDI from your sequencer to Atmosphere, and then hear the audio through the sequencer. One last stage is to sync Atmosphere to your sequencer's MIDI clock, so that tempo-synched effects will work properly.
-- Still in Rax Preferences, on the MIDI tab, set the MIDI Clock dropdown menu to Rhino. Close the Preferences window. At the top of the main Rax window, make sure the Ext. Sync box is checked. The Tempo window should say 0, which means Rax is following the sequencer's master tempo.
And you're done. Save the Rax document and you can open Atmosphere with a single click. Trilogy works the exact same way, obviously.
If you want to use multiple instruments from Rax, you'll need to use SoundFlower 16ch and send MIDI on a different MIDI channel for each instrument (using the same IAC bus).
Anyone who's tried this, please post your results in this thread. Especially, try out other PPC instruments, and try using multiple instruments at the same time, and let us know how it works for you."
Maybe one of the Admins wants to sticky this
With my very best,
Vic.

There's another shortcut I've used successfully in order to access 'old' PlugIns on an Intel MBP :
Just use Logic 6 - and take full advantage o' that ole rotatin' rosetta
Meaning : Other than with native Logic versions 7 and 8, Logic 6 has to be fully emulated by the rosetta engine, and if your intel mac is fast enough, it does so very well - thus including all PPC PlugIns you still may have installed. Also works fine for PlugIns that were converted via FXpansion's VST-AU manager.

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madnessus wrote:
Are plug ins available for a 7-year old iBookG4 that will provide more sounds
sure:
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how to use them (short story):
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(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
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madnessus wrote:
or improve performance on GB?
no

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I would like to know if there is a possibility to build the indesign plugins once for both PPC and Intel on MAC. Right now I'm forced to build my plugins twice: on the PPC machine and on the Intel Machine.
I tried to build the SDK example Basic Persist Interface on my MAC Intel machine and then i placed it on my MAC PPC and it failed to load.
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Itamar

thanks mfreitag
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X
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Migrated old mac to new mac, and can't access creative cloud now anyone got any suggestions how to do so? Old mac had CS6 installed, all I wanted was my plug ins, and everything came over

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I got a new mac last week, then bought creative cloud. I wanted my plug ins from my old mac switched over, but the whole lot migrated over. My computer now has my old CS6 in it, and I want to get creative cloud back. Problem is I have different sign in id's and can't seem to access my creative cloud at all. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
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I installed the Eclipse 3.5.2 w/ OEPE plug-ins on MAC OS X, but need additioanl plug-ins to do OSB 11gR1 development in it, but can't seem to find them
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RB

additioanl plug-ins to do OSB 11gR1 development in it, but can't seem to find them anywhere!these plug-ins/features are installed in OEPE by the OSB installer during installation.download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/osb/index.html, extract the osb.zip and runInstaller.sh. Hopefully the install script should work (I doubt if MAC OS X is supported. But could forsee no reason why this script cannot execute in MAC OS X unless there are hard coding in this sript for supported OS ).
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Has anybody here done plug-in development when running Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? Lion seems OK, so I'm guessing that ML would be OK too, but.......
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Hi Norio,
Thanks for replying!
FWIW, I was able to install Xcode 3.2.6 onto Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), using these instructions from Stack Overflow: <http://tinyurl.com/6xj8cjc>.
I have not had any issues building CS6 plug-ins with Xcode 3.2.6. Basically, I want to use a newer MacBook Pro for development, and I am stuck with using Lion. I can always use my old MBP, but I don't want to have to haul around a couple of MacBook Pros.
On the other hand, I have not tried to install Xcode 3.2.x on Mountain Lion. I'm hoping that upgrading Lion to Mountain Lion will not interfere with my install of Xcode.
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What are the best plug ins for iMovie 11 running on Lion?

What are the best plug ins for Imovie 11 or Imovie HD running Lion? Especially transitions & effects for still pictures.
Thank you

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iMovie HD (in reality HD5) - doesn't work under Mac OS X.7 - at all
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We have created the following knowledge base document to help users determine if they are affected by the use of these plug-ins. The document contains instructions on how to remove the plug-ins and restore your Photoshop prefs:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/889/cpsid_88974.html
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Error loading Indesign CS4 Debug plug-in. Sxs trace attached

When I try to open Indesign Debug after placing my plugins in the plug in folder, I get the following Sxs trace:
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Hi B
Really sure You are looking into Your "user" folder ?
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Hi B
Really sure You are looking into Your "user" folder ?
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in this ther IS a library folder
and in this ther should be an iMovie folder. If not I would make one
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Yours Bengt W

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