Close a document immediately

Hi,
I want to close a document and reopen it immediately. I am using SDKLayoutHelper methods to open and close a document. But closing a document with kProcess always crashes. I tried various methods(IDocumentCommands, ProcessScheduledCommands) to make it work but everytime it crashes.
Can anybody suggest me what is the right way to close and reopen the document immediately?
I am using InDesign CS4.
Thanks,
VSP
P.S. I am able to close and reopen by scheduling the commands.

Hi,
I tried the following code and it crashes.I have taken the BasicMenu sample and tried to close the current active document.
As per the previous reply from Dirk I reset the docPtr before close. This is to remove the reference to the document.
Thanks,
VSP
void BscMnuActionComponent::DoAbout()
InterfacePtr<IDocument> docPtr(GetExecutionContextSession()->GetActiveContext()->GetContextDocument(), UseDefaultIID());
UIDRef documentUIDRef = ::GetUIDRef(docPtr);
InterfacePtr<IDocFileHandler> docFileHandler(Utils<IDocumentUtils>()->QueryDocFileHandler(documentUIDRef));
if (!docFileHandler)
 return;
if (docFileHandler->CanClose(documentUIDRef))
 docPtr.reset();
 docFileHandler->Close(documentUIDRef, kSuppressUI, kTrue, IDocFileHandler::kProcess); // Tried with kFullUI and it crashes.

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Re:How to close and reopen a document immediately?

Original Message available here: <a href="/webx?14@@.3c055358">Dave Sykes, "How to close and reopen a document immediately?" #, 15 Nov 2007 4:46 am</a> > Dave Sykes - 04:46am Nov 15, 2007 Pacific I would like to close a document and then immediately afterwards open it up again. The documentation says "To process a command to close the document immediately, use IDocumentCommands::Close'', but it also points to SDKLayoutHelper::CloseDocument which uses IDocFileHandler::Close. If I use IDocumentCommands::Close the close succeeds, but InDesign unexpectedly quits when it regains control. If I use IDocFileHandler::Close then when I reopen the document I get the assert ``Calling SelectionExtentionRegistry::Initialize more than once!'' This is the same error I get by not closing the document at all. I have also tried ProcessCommand(Utils<IDocumentCommands>()->CreateCloseCommand(docUIDRef)), but this also crashes InDesign when it regains control. In all cases I am calling ProcessCommand(CmdUtils::CreateCommand(kCloseLayoutWinCmdBoss), as otherwise I get an error that the document is still referenced on close. Is it possible to close all the layout windows and also close the document, so that it can be reopened immediately? I had the same issue and tried to solve it by closing all windows in the document's IWindowList and then calling IDocFileHandler::Close() with IDocFileHandler::kProcess to process the command immediately instead of scheduling it. Unfortunately this still resulted in a crash. Eventually I got around it by adding the following line before re-opening the document: CmdUtils::ProcessScheduledCmds (ICommand::kLowestPriority); This forced InDesign to completely close the document before re-opening it again. Hope this helps someone else too. :) - Jackeen

I am having the same problem with InDesign CS4 version,
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How to close and reopen a document immediately?

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