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Anonymous
August 30, 2012
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How to know the name of paragraph style group being deleted from InDesign?

  • August 30, 2012
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Hi.

I am working on a plugin and need to know the name of paragraph style group being deleted from InDesign.

I have implemented a document observer and attached IID_IPARASTYLEGROUPMANAGER. With this I can get the notification whenever any paragraph style group is deleted. The value of "theChange" is kDeleteParaStyleGroupCmdBoss.

Now i tried to get the pointer to IUIDData for this command but I got Null pointer. This must be because the group has already been deleted by then.

Is there any way to get the name of style group when it is deleted?

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Dirk Becker
Legend
August 31, 2012

The style group is already deleted on that notification.

In some cases InDesign sends pre-notifications with a different command state, unfortunately here it is missing.

I'd probably build a map(UID/name) on opening the document and maintain it e.g. on rename.

Alternatively you can watch every command before execution (interceptor etc.) even though that is not recommended for performance reasons.

Dirk

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Anonymous
September 4, 2012

I have implemented the Command interceptor now and I want to abort the command if a particular style group is deleted.

Currently I am getting call for kDeleteParaStyleCmdBoss but how to identify this command is being executed for which style group? Basically I need to check the name of style group & then stop processing of this command.

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kapoor_aman27
Inspiring
September 12, 2014

Hi, did u get the answer to your question yet? I am also trying to figure out the same thing

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