Get width of a table column in InDesign C++ SDK

Question

Hello,

I am having the following code snippet to get the width of a specific column of a InDesign table

InterfacePtr<ITableSuite> tableSuite(..);

// code to select text in cell (0,2) to get the width of column 2

if (tableSuite->CanGetColumnSize())

{

PMReal columnsize = tableSuite->GetColumnSize();

colWidth = ::ToDouble(columnsize);

}

For some reason, this is always giving me the width of column 0. Is this the right way or are there other ways of getting column width of a specific column?

Thanks

Rahul_Rastogi · Accepted Answer

Refer the following code snippet -

InterfacePtr<ITableModel> iTableModel(tableModelRef, UseDefaultIID());

InterfacePtr<ITableCommands> iTableCommands(tableModelRef, UseDefaultIID());

InterfacePtr<ITableAttrAccessor> iTableAttrAccessor(iTableModel, UseDefaultIID());

InterfacePtr<ITableAttrRealNumber> iTableColumnWidth((ITableAttrRealNumber*)iTableAttrAccessor->QueryColAttribute(columnIndex, kColAttrWidthBoss, IID_ITABLEATTRREALNUMBER));

// pass the correct columnIndex

colWidth = ::ToDouble(iTableColumnWidth->Get());

- Rahul Rastogi

Adobe InDesign C++ Custom Plugin Architect

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