Using adobe Indesign plug-in editor

Hi All, I am very new in developing plugin's for adobe indesign in mac. I came to know that there is tool "Indesign plug-in edtior" for creating new plug-in's for Indesgin. I downloaded the Indesign plug-in editor from "http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/InDesign_Plug-in_Editor". i just double clicked on the Ellicpse to get the ellicpse editor. Here i tried to create a new project by clicking the File->NewProject. A new Project dialog opened.Here i double clicked on the "In design plug-in development" folder and clicked on the "New Indesign Plug-in Project" and clicked the next button.When i clicked the next button It gave me an error dialog saying "Dolly input files are either not found or read only". How do i resolve this problem?

It's really annoying Adobe elected to name it a plug-in editor -- you have to write a plug-in first before yo can edit it ...
It's not really a point-and-shoot procedure; you need to start from scratch: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/InDesign_Plug-in_Editor#How_to_Get_Started_with_the_A dobe_InDesign_Plug-in_Editor (it directs you to the Starting Guide pdf from the SDK).

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If you'd like more information, or have suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact me directly,
Thanks,
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got it working, but it seems that for finish button to be activated, all of the fields must be filled in both in the mac panel and the windows panel. I think this is wrong because, if i'm developing in mac, i would only need to fill-in information pertaining to the mac environment, just like the dolly x's application.
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Also, checking the XSLT files that dolly x uses, all of them are in version 1.1 which is no longer in development, XSLT version 2.0 is now a recommendation and i think it would be great if this will be updated.
I hope this information is helpful in better improving the editor.
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