Panels in Bridge

I created a CS SDK panel which looks great in the regular CS programs. When I open it in Bridge, it opens in a palette which is larger than it should be and is not resize-able. Is there a way to create a panel extension for Bridge? (or at the very least a palette which is realizable?
Harbs

Harbs,
Bridge does not support the CSXS infrastructure, so yes, it doesn't have those capabilities (of which a flyout meni is one).
If you look at the User's Bridge CS5 folder (Mac: [user]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Bridge CS5), look in Startup Scripts to see a "Bridge Flash Extensions" folder. In there, you'll see how Bridge extensions are invoked. It's similar to how it was done for PatchPanel.
Yes, there's work to be done. I gave that presentation on it at the summit to point out a couple of the limitations, and hopefully ensure that expectations were set properly. You can still get a lot done with Bridge, but the lack of the CSXS infrastructure can be a limiting in some ways.
Bob

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I am working in a museum digitizing paintings and using Bridge CS 5 to enter the metadata. IPTC extended is ideal for that, but I can not access the metadata panel to the side. I have found it in the preferences (and did all the clicking and customization) but it still does not display. I assumed that because there were preferences it must be accessible but I am not finding that to be the case. I have accessed it through the info panel in Photoshop but I don't want to have to open every image just to add this stuff, why can't I access it through Bridge?
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