On what page am I?

Thanks Dirk for your hints. I'll try the service, looks promising.
How to write a service seems to be well documented, so don't fear I'll ask how to. ;)
Problem for me mostly is not how to implement xy but what to implement to get xy done.

Thanks,
Martin

You should implement a text post process service.
The thread below is about its twin, the pre process service.

Muhammad Amin, "Creating Observers for X and Y ScaleText Attributes" #, 28 Nov 2007 4:22 am

How would you know?
- read the forum for a few years
- ask
- there is some place on the web that has a copy from older postings
- find where the application already works the same way, and have a deeper look at the matching plugin's boss list in the SDK docs. Drill down from there on interesting bosses to see their interfaces.

On the positive side, most interfaces are available as header. Please don't ask though how to write your own selection service.

Dirk

Ok, so this means there is no single point to look at. Instead I've to observe nearly each distinct way an item can move? That's a lot and I fear this will slow down the whole app but I'll have to try.

Did I miss some documentation or why can't I find informations on some interfaces like IID_ITRANSFORM_DOCUMENT? None in the API reference, only one occurence in a sdk sample. How did you find that?

And also as far as I can see you didn't mention what to observe for getting notified if a particular item (e.g. a table) moves within a story. I don't expect one to deliver me complete answers if I only knew where to look.

Thanks,
Martin

also IID_ISPREADLIST maybe needed too.

thanks!
lee

Martin,

Try an observer with lazy attachment on the following protocol:

Session workspace subject: IID_IPAGENUMBERPREFS
Doc subject: IID_ITRANSFORM_DOCUMENT, IID_ISECTIONLIST

These are broadcasted in many commands that can change the page number of the item you're watching. There maybe other protocol to observe, so let the list know if this works or not.

Hope this helps!
lee