Get Doc Id from name

[moke@napconet.com]

I need to get the Id of an open document without knowing it's current index. I am using getdoc from name using this VB 6 code in ActiveX SDK ver. 2.0.41.2

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Dim DocID as long
Dim DocName as string
Dim Eat as long ' this is a throw away
'get id
CoPDFXCview1.GetDocumentFromName DocName, DocID, Eat

also tried

Call CoPDFXCview1.DoVerb(, "GetDocumentFromName", DocName, DocID, 0)


I continually get back "-1" for DocID which i assume means not found. I have tried DocName with full path, full filename, name w/o ext and still the same result. What am I doing wrong?

The main reason I need to know is to close the document but i can't seem to do that with name ony so if there is an easier way that would be helpful also, but i do need th Id for other stuff. Thanks

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Actually method "GetDocumentFromName" is used when you need to get information about what document fired some event (in OnEvent notification).

You can always get ID of the current opened document by using "GetActiveDocument" function. Or you can call methods for document with zero index (this will be current opened document). For example

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Call CoPDFXCview1.DoVerb("Documents[0]", "Close", Nothing, Nothing)

will close active document.
The other way - you can remember document ID which you receive when call "OpenDocument" function.

[moke@napconet.com]

thanks fo rthe response. The issue i have is that in this situation there may be many documents opened and the document being closed may not be the current active document which is why i was trying a different method.

I had not thought about keeping track of the index of each document as it opens and insert them into and array. This will be a bit akward for my app because the users will be opening and closing many documents quickly but if there is no other way i guess i'll have to go that route. any other suggestions?

[moke@napconet.com]

ok... I tried keeping track as the documents are opened in inserting result into an array. it works better than i expected thanks for the suggestion!

[John - Tracker Supp]