Exceptions in Indesign

Question

I am working on C++ plugins for Indesign . How to handle Exceptions ? I tired out using Try-catch but no use, try-catch are not catching the Indesign Exceptions. Please , any one give reply to handle exceptions in Indesign.
Shirish Manda.

Answer 1

InDesign does not throw exceptions, so there is nothing to catch. InDesign uses what I would call "poor mans exceptions" -  breaks inside a "do { ... } while(kFalse);" loop . There is no problem in using exceptions in your own code, eg. the XML Data Update SDK example uses true exceptions.