Hello all you Devs,
maybe someone can answer my short question: Is it possible to do the necessary stuff to start your plugin/s before InDesigns recovery starts to recover?
For better understanding (im not a native speaker also):
We currently run a third party DAM with its plugin. Upon start, the plugin needs to be connected to a server, to be able to access the files.
When InDesign crashes, we always are very glad to see InDesign recover and nearly have no loss.
But with the plugin installed, the recovery automatically starts, leaving no interaction to connect to the dam-server, resulting in InDesigns client to freeze.
Workaround is to disable the plugin, then let InDesign recover, save doc, then quit InD, to put the DAM plugin back into plugin-folder. Thats a big BS
You as software-developers – who know a bunch of stuff what can be done with the client and what not – can you say…
a) the developer could do better: what about auto-connect if recovery start (is that detectable?)
b) the developer could do better: there can be an interaction, InDesign halts recovery for
c) other than initialize the plugin upon start, theres nothing a dev can do, because recovery is prioritized
d) something I didnt thought of, because im just a curious enduser, maybe scripter