SDK vs SCRIPT - GENERAL QUESTION

Hi,
I am automation developer for all Adobe products using JavaScript, VBScript. Now I am looking SDK development.
Can I use VBScript code inside of SDK. I mean, I use VBScript (code) which is much meaning full. But C++ code is not like that.
For clear, We can use (Javascript, VBScript, AppleScript) for scripting. Can we use either this instead C++ code for SDK?

Hello ksaravanan:
After reading your request several times I think you are asking this: Can an InDesign script do the same thing as what can be done using the SDK?
I have written a fairly complex Applescript program which is used to generate fairly large and complex documents from an inhouse scripting language--the scripting required macro expansion, macro substitution, and complex analysis involving deep nesting and careful logic. I did a lot of complex stuff, and I could have done every single one of those selfsame tasks in a plugin using the InDesign SDK. Further, those tasks would have been done faster and probably more efficiently using SDK code. Why Applescript? To be honest (grin) my boss knew I was a Windows man and he wanted to see me work on a Mac out of pure spite (wide grin).
But I also convinced him that everything this converter needed to do could be done using Applescript a lot more simply and quickly than in an SDK. Speed was not an issue, nor was efficiency. Development time was (even so it still took me about a year to develop).
Now, can everything done by the SDK be done in a script? No. Not by a long shot. Oh, I suppose one could write a plugin and make it scriptable; in that sense, yes, but in every other sense, no. The SDK gives the programmer pretty deep access to the innards of the program; script commands hide such access
b (see Patrick Perroud's fine entry--Patrick, that was poetry, my friend)
. So it depends upon what you want to do. Simple automation or even complex automation that doesn't often change and does not require speed can probably be handled just fine by a script. If you need speed, efficiency, and/or if you need to reach into the heart of InDesign, learn the SDK. It's a challenge, but worth it.
HTH!
John

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