{"id":12910,"date":"2008-10-15T22:13:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/10\/pscs4-extensibility-flash-64-bit.html"},"modified":"2008-10-15T22:13:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:13:30","slug":"pscs4_extensibility_flash_64_bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/pscs4_extensibility_flash_64_bit\/","title":{"rendered":"PSCS4 extensibility: Flash, 64-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Now that Photoshop CS4 is shipping, let&#8217;s talk extensibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Plug-Ins:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><strong>By and large, your existing plug-ins should work just fine with CS4<\/strong>.&#160; Photoshop PM Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes reports that when it comes to PS on the Mac and PS on Windows running  in 32-bit mode, &quot;Our in-house testing proved early on that with very rare exceptions, &#8216;if it worked in CS3, it works in CS4.&#8217;&quot; Developers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ononesoftware.com\/cs4\/\">onOne<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalanarchy.com\/press\/2008_CS4.html\">Digital Anarchy<\/a> have already issued statements of CS4 compatibility, and I expect more to follow. <\/li>\n<li><strong>If you&#8217;re running Photoshop in 64-bit mode<\/strong> on Windows (Vista 64 or XP64), <strong>you&#8217;ll need updated, 64-bit-native versions<\/strong> of your plug-ins.&#160; (The 64-bit version of Photoshop can&#8217;t host 32-bit processes, and vice versa.)&#160; We&#8217;ve been providing documentation to plug-in vendors for many months, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/photoshop\/sdk\/index.html\">64-bit-savvy CS4 SDK<\/a> is publicly available for download.&#160; I expect vendors to be trying to gauge the level of interest in 64-bit versions of their tools, so if you&#8217;re in that camp, you might want to give them some friendly encouragement. <\/li>\n<li><b>Photoshop on Windows consists of two binaries<\/b> (one 32-bit, one 64-bit) which can be installed in parallel as completely separate applications.&#160; This means you can use the 32-bit version to run older plug-ins while waiting for them to go 64-bit-native. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Flash Panels:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li> Support  for running <strong>SWFs as panels represents a development renaissance<\/strong> for Photoshop &amp; the Creative Suite.&#160; It&#8217;s never been possible to create panels for Photoshop in the past*, and developing for other apps meant learning different APIs and writing different code for each.&#160; Now you can create cross-platform, cross-application, non-modal, vector-based, network-aware extensions using Flash or Flex.&#160; This is going to kick serious ass, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/photoshop\/\">Photoshop Developer Center<\/a> now features the Photoshop Panel Developer&#8217;s Guide.&#160; Look for more examples and documentation soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">If you&#8217;re a developer and have questions, feel free to <a href=\"mailto:bhughes@adobe.com\">drop Bryan a line<\/a> so that he can point you in the right direction. \n<\/p>\n<p><i>*Unless you were a <b>really<\/b> clever developer like the guys at Nik Software&#8211;and they&#8217;re the first to say &#8220;Oh yeah, that was awful&#8221;; 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