Simple access to document color table?

[Stefan Bender]

We frequently need to access the document color table. Atm we do 

 

VCOMPtr<VectorWorks::IDocumentColorTable>    doccol( VectorWorks::IID_DocumentColorTable );

 

But that seems to be time-consuming so it would be great to get a handle/pointer to the current document's color table without having to create a new VCOM ptr each time.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks for any ideas,

 

Stefan Bender

 

 

[JBenghiat]

You could always define the ptr in ModuleMain and then initialize if nullptr in the OnInitXProperties events. That's assuming that you don't need to re-initialize if the user makes a change to the color table.

[Stefan Bender]

Thanks Joshua, I had already thought about something  like that, but I'm not sure if the pointer and the data remain valid if the user switches to another document during the session. So I would prefer something that returns the "current" color table of the active document.