Localize on Photoshop plugin SDK

Dear All,
I am developing an application which needs to support multiple language. So I don't know that Photoshop SDK supported localize or not?
Please help me.
Hieu Nguyen.

Dear Tom Ruark,
I would like to implement as following:
+ When application starts up , it recognizes the current language of OS and set the application's message base on this language
+ When user selects another language, the application will change the application's message base on that language.
+ I store the localize strings(message) on text file. Base on each language, I have each text file.
Do you have any Localize Manager library that compatible with Photoshop SDK or some technology? please share with me.
Thanks so much,
Hieu Nguyen.

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Or exist some free SDKs for non-professional programmers?
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Apart from the obvious, no.
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Hi, I've been reading the documentation and gone through some samples in the SDK and I'm starting to feel comfortable with the whole plugin environment (though there is still much for me to learn).
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The motivation behind my question is that I am ultimately interested in developing plugins for both Windows and Mac with the least amount of hassle. Ideally, I'd like to be able to run a single script (probably on a linux machine using gcc/mingw) that compiles all of my most recent code so I'm trying to find out how can boil down the SDK to the minimum components to make this as simple as possible so my programs don't have relics/artifacts from the example code in them. I'm also not certain how to accomplish what I just described but that's probably a question for a different forum. Any help is much appreciated!

The (GPL) sample code on my site shows how cross-platform plugins can be built for any Photoshop platform - these days, most commonly Win32, Win64, and OS X Mach-O. There are dozens of projects represented, mostly File Formats and Filters:
http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/
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I am developing a photoshop plugin using CS3 SDK. I am using ADM to create dialogs. Developing ADM Modeless dialog is not possible in CS3 SDK.
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Thanks a lot for you suggetion.
2009/5/22 Ramón G Castañeda <[email protected]>
If you had been running CS3 on a PPC machine (PowerPC or pre-Intel box)
it's likely the plug-in was not written for Universal Binary.
>
Now that you have an Intel iMac, any plug-ins that have not been updated
for Universal Binary will not run, because your CS3 is now running natively
in Universal Binary.
>
In order to run your older plug-ins, you would have to run CS3 in Rosetta
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highlight the application icon in the Finder a do a Get Info on it (Command
I). check the Run in Rosetta box, close the dialog box, launch CS3 and
watch it crawl along.
>

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BUGS:
1. sendImage in psconnection is multiply broken:
(a) Network communication depends on the PSRawImage C structure. However, that does not take padding into account. This may work for build settings that don't allow structure padding, it certainly doesn't work for my settings.
(b) Pixmap support is broken. The CGBitmapContext setting (RGB 888) it attempts to use is unsupported and will throw an exception on iOS
(c) JPEG support is broken - the (required) format byte simply isn't added to the network packet.
2. The documentation is wrong/incomplete
(a) It doesn't mention the format byte - you have to find that in the demo programs that don't use psconnection.
(b) It suggests that messages to the server are acknowledged. If they are, I'd like to know where/how.
3. The test version of Photoshop crashes with some (not all) JPEG images:
Process:         Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 [976]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5.1/Adobe Photoshop CS5.1.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Identifier:      com.adobe.Photoshop
Version:         12.1 (12.1x20110328.r.145) (12.1)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [100]
Date/Time:       2011-04-19 13:10:26.385 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100541190 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 2510156
1   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001004b4dfa AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 1935798
2   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001004b84d2 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 1949838
3   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001007ba4a7 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 5103715
4   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100066573 0x100000000 + 419187
5   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100066636 0x100000000 + 419382
6   com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001012e0723 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 16794335
7   com.apple.Foundation          0x00007fff80d057d5 __NSFireTimer + 114
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation      0x00007fff86d90be8 __CFRunLoopRun + 6488
9   com.apple.CoreFoundation      0x00007fff86d8edbf CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
10 com.apple.HIToolbox           0x00007fff87bc97ee RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 333
11 com.apple.HIToolbox           0x00007fff87bc95f3 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 310
12 com.apple.HIToolbox           0x00007fff87bc94ac BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 59
13 com.apple.AppKit              0x00007fff80f7be64 _DPSNextEvent + 718
14 com.apple.AppKit              0x00007fff80f7b7a9 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155
15 com.apple.AppKit              0x00007fff80f4148b -[NSApplication run] + 395
16 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001012e0644 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 16794112
17 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x00000001012e10a1 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 16796765
18 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100068286 0x100000000 + 426630
19 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100237199 0x100000000 + 2322841
20 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100237229 0x100000000 + 2322985
21 com.adobe.Photoshop           0x0000000100002294 0x100000000 + 8852
A Google search on the crash signature above shows it has previously occurred as a result of corrupt fonts. However (a) I'd done all the font checking etc as recommended, and (b) this only occurs for JPEGs, not pixmaps.
Annoyances:
1. psconnection is a huge memory hog; it creates multiple copies of images and network packets. Be prepared to rewrite if you're dealing with large images.
2. psconnection is not thread safe. Be prepared to put in locks and inter-thread communication code.
3. psconnection is iPad only. Be prepared to rewrite to be able to use it on an iPhone
4. The serial number for the test version of Photoshop as provided on the Adobe site only works for a few hours, then decides that the serial number is invalid.
Hints:
The demo programs e.g., transmitimage, do seem to work, as opposed to psconnection. However, they use their own code that doesn't do much in the way of error checking, etc.
Sandy

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