User manual ADOBE CONFIGURATOR 1

[. . . ] Figures and tables Resources 1 Introduction 1. 1 About this manual This manual provides an introduction to Adobe Configurator 1. 0 on Mac OS and Windows . Chapter 1 covers the basic conventions used in this manual and system requirements. Chapter 2 offers a brief overview of Configurator and describes how to create a simple panel. [. . . ] Type text in the Search box and it displays all matching commands. Drag or double-click to add a command from the search results to the panel. Buttons There are three types of buttons: The Action button executes a recorded Photoshop action. The Action and Action Set properties are assigned in the Inspector palette. The Script button executes Extended JavaScript code in Photoshop. Click the Editor button in the Inspector to open a text editor to enter code such as alert("hello my first script button!"); The Script File button executes an Extended JavaScript file in Photoshop. The file URL can be an absolute or relative path of a file on the local hard disk. See section 4. 1 for more information about relative paths. Widgets There are four kinds of widgets: Simple Text widget The Simple Text widget creates a rectangular box that can contain a text message. Click the Editor button in the Inspector to open the Text Editor, where you can enter the text message. SWF/Image widget The SWF/Image widget loads a GIF, JPEG, PNG, or SWF file into the panel. The URL field accepts any of the following forms: URL: http://somesite. com/picture. png Absolute path: /User/user/test. jpg Relative path: test. gif or . /test. gif See section 4. 1 for more information on relative paths. NOTE: If the loaded SWFs are built with Flex project in Flex Builder, they cannot be displayed in Configurator, but they can be displayed in the created panel in Photoshop. Movie Player widget The Movie Player widget plays Flash video (. FLV) files in the panel. The URL field for the Movie Player widget accepts the same forms as the SWF/Image widget. Feature Search widget The Feature Search widget searches Photoshop features. To use it in Photoshop, you type a string in the Feature Search field in the Configurator panel, and it displays all matching commands. When you click a command in the list of results, the command is executed. 3. 4 Panel Editor Multiple panels can be opened at same time. An asterisk * means the panel has been modified but not saved. Position the cursor over the tab and it displays the full path of the saved panel file. Several operations are supported in Panel Editor: Select objects o o o o o Move objects o o o NOTE: Configurator does not let you move objects past the panel s edge. Resize objects NOTE: Configurator does not let you resize objects past the panel s edge. Align or distribute selected objects Auto Layout all objects Resize a panel NOTE: Configurator does not let you resize a panel to an area too small to fit its contained objects. 3. 5 Inspector palette Inspector palette is on the right side of Configurator. The upper area specifies Panel attributes; the lower area specifies Object attributes. The Panel area lists the attributes of the current panel: The Object area lists attributes of the currently selected object(s). Different object types have different attribute sets. [. . . ] Copy the . ZIP file to the other computer and extract it to the Photoshop CS4/Plug-ins/Panels folder. 4. 6 Working offline in Photoshop If you are working offline in Photoshop, Configurator SWF/Movie widgets that have online URLs (such as http://somesite/some. swf) will not be loaded. When you decide to go online, you must re-open the panel to load the movie. NOTE: To work offline in Photoshop, choose Window > Extensions > Connections. Then choose Offline Options from the Connections panel menu and select Keep Me Offline. 4. 7 Export or deploy a panel on Windows Vista On Windows Vista, Configurator and Adobe Extension Manager should be run in Administrator mode or with the system UAC User Account Control disabled in order to export and package panels. 5 Information for developers Configurator builds on the Flash panel extensibility functionality in Photoshop CS4. [. . . ]