Re: What use is an object's ID?

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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 03:35

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Shane, Mike-- 

A few quick notes: 

1. Object ID is document-wide. No need to specify a page, a spread, or anything else. 

2. No other object can have the same ID in the document. I doubt that even a new item would take the ID of a previously-deleted item. 

3. VB users will have to iterate to find the matching ID (and, again, you can't use For Each...Next for your iteration). So you probably want something like: 



Rem Given a Document "myDocument" and an ID "myID"... 
For myCounter = 1 to myDocument.AllPageItems.Count 
    If AllPageItems.Item(myCounter).ID = myID Then 
        myPageItem = AllPageItems.Item(myCounter) 
        Exit For 
    End If 
Next 




Luckily, iteration is fast, and AllPageItems is a collection of all of the page items on the document pages of the document. 

Thanks, 

Ole

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