Karelia announces Software Developers’ Kit for Sandvox 1.5
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 20, 2008 at 10:00am
Karelia Software has released a Software Developers’ Kit (SDK) for creating plug-ins for Sandvox 1.5 and up. The Sandvox SDK allows Cocoa developers to create new custom pages, pagelets, and collection index data types.
By creating custom-built plugins, Sandvox can be extended beyond the core of its own built-in 11 page types and nineteen pagelet types. For example, a developer might create a new pagelet type to display auction listings or local weather reports, or a new page type to display content from a new online video service.
The Sandvox SDK is a set of documentation, full source code to almost all of the built-in plug-ins from Sandvox (with a BSD-style license to encourage code re-use), and an Xcode template for getting up and running, creating new plug-ins. Using Cocoa Bindings it’s even possible to create many plug-ins without a single line of source code. Of course, many developers who take full advantage of Cocoa can make even richer plug-ins, including handling drag and drop of files and URLs, custom templates, and new inspector views.
The SDK and documentation are available at Karelia’s Website. Karelia has also opened up a web-based forum for developers to discuss Sandvox plug-in development.
Sandvox also comes with a Designer’s Kit (recently updated), for web designers to create their own custom CSS-based web site designs beyond the 50 that ship built-in with the product. The designer’s kit is available for downloading as well. More information about Sandvox is available at Karelia’s web site.
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