how to get all page items from the document

[Guest]

Hi all,

i want to get all page items and its frame and data from the document

Then i want to create my own xml.

any help? any advice ?please.

[Manan Joshi]

Pageitems are owned by the spreadlayer, you can traverse the spread and get the pageitems from it. Please refer the SDK for examples.

The general way to do this is to traverse the IHierarchy interface of the parent object to get the children.

Manan Joshi

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[Guest]

Hi joshi,

i have tried the sample code for checking the possibilties ,

InterfacePtr<IApplication> application(GetExecutionContextSession()->QueryApplication());

    InterfacePtr<IDocumentList> documentList(application->QueryDocumentList());

    for (int32 i = 0; i < documentList->GetDocCount(); i++) {

        IDocument* document = documentList->GetNthDoc(i);

        UIDRef ref=::GetUIDRef(document);

        InterfacePtr<IHierarchy> hierarchy(ref, UseDefaultIID());       //issue,   hierachy is not getting created. it just retrun nil

        if (hierarchy == nil)

            break;

        int32 count=hierarchy->GetChildCount();

}

[Manan Joshi]

As i pointed out previously the owner of the Pageitems is spread layer and not the document, as far as i can recall IHierarchy won't exist on kDocBoss.

You need to go to the content layer of the document and then traverse its hierarchy. Have a look at the Layout Fundamentals in the programming guide.

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[Guest]

Hi, joshi can you suggest me any sdk samples to understand this

[Dirk Becker]

For completeness sake you may  also want to cover "TOP" type on path and anchored page items.

Dirk

[Suraba]

You also can iterate all of UIDs in doc’s database.

Have a look on IDataBase.h and there are several examples in the SDK.

[Guest]

Hi all,

i use the  following code  to get all pageitem and its path type .i am able to get all page item's UIDRef .but i am not able to get its path type.

please help me!

for (int32 nPage = 0; nPage < numberOfPages; nPage++ )

            {

                UIDList pageItemList(database);

                spread->GetItemsOnPage

                (

                 nPage,

                 &pageItemList,

                 kFalse,

                 kFalse

                 );

                // Iterate the page items and save off the UIDs of frames.

                bool16 hasContent;

                int32 pageItemListLength = pageItemList.Length();

                for (int32 j = 0; j < pageItemListLength; j++ )

                {

                    UIDRef pageItemRef = pageItemList.GetRef(j);

                    //InterfacePtr<IGraphicFrameData> graphicFrameData(pageItemRef, UseDefaultIID());

                    //hasContent =graphicFrameData->IsGraphicFrame();

                    InterfacePtr<IPathGeometry> pathGeometry(pageItemRef,UseDefaultIID());

                    if (pathGeometry != nil)

                    {

                        PMPageItemType pathType = Utils<IPathUtils>()->WhichKindOfPageItem(pathGeometry); // issue ,this statement is not return the path type

                        switch (pathType)

                        {

                            case kIsPoint:

                                break;

                            case kIsLine:

                                break;

                            case kIsSquare:

                                break;

                            case kIsRectangle:

                                break;

                            case kIsCircle:

                                break;

                            case kIsOval:

                                break;

                            case kIsPoly:

                                break;

                            case kIsPath:

                                break;

                            case kIsCompoundPath:

                                break;

                            default:

                                break;

                        }

                    }

                }

[Markus Freitag]

Hi,

did you try it with IPageItemTypeUtils instead of IPathUtils?

Markus