InDesign crash while applying character style

Hi all,
A)I have problem with applying character style to selected text.
when character style is applied to selected text indesign get crashes.
my code snippet is as follow
input parameters
1.RangeData paraRange // start and end index of paragraph
2.storyUIDRef // uidref of current story
 code snippet
 // valid text model
 InterfacePtr<ITextModel> textModel(storyUIDRef, UseDefaultIID());
 if (!textModel)
 break;
 //wax strand
 InterfacePtr<IWaxStrand> waxStrand(((IWaxStrand*)textModel->QueryStrand(kFrameListBoss, IID_IWAXSTRAND)));
 if (waxStrand == nil)
 break;
 //WaxIterator
 K2::scoped_ptr<IWaxIterator> waxIterator(waxStrand->NewWaxIterator());
 if (waxIterator == nil)
 break;
 //first wax line of paragraph
 IWaxLine* waxLine = waxIterator->GetFirstWaxLine(paraRange.Start(nil));
 //iterate each waxline
 while (waxLine != nil && (waxLine->TextOrigin() < paraRange.End()))
 //Iterate for all runs
 K2::scoped_ptr<IWaxRunIterator> waxRunIter( waxLine->QueryWaxRunIterator() ) ;
 IWaxRun * waxRun = waxRunIter->GetFirstRun();
 while (waxRun)
 int32 startPos = waxRun->TextOrigin();
 int32 endPos = startPos + waxRun->GetCharCount();
 RangeData textRange(startPos ,endPos);
 ISelectionManager* selMgr = m_activeContext->GetContextSelection();
 if(!selMgr)
 break;
 //get valid textselection suite
InterfacePtr<ITextSelectionSuite> suite(selMgr, UseDefaultIID());
 if (!suite)
 break;
 //select text
suite->SetTextSelection(storyRef, textRange, Selection::kScrollIntoView, nil);
 //created style from selection using " SnpManipulate::TextStyleCreateStyleFromSelection" method.
my code get crashed at highlighted text( int32 startPos = waxRun->TextOrigin();).
B)my next question is how to get textstyle ranges of a selected paragraph.
please help me.
Thanks
Tahir

A) Make sure that the all parcels of the text is composed before you iterate it, see ITextParcelListComposer. I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve. You want to apply a character style to a range of text, but the code iterates wax lines and iterate the runs of each line and sets the current selection to be the run on each iteration. Why not just:
InterfacePtr<ICommand> icmd(textmodelCmds->ApplyStyleCmd(index, length,styleUID,kCharAttrStrandBoss,kFalse));
B) Walk the kCharAttrStrands to the get information:
InterfacePtr<IStrand> strand((IStrand*)textmodel->QueryStrand(kCharAttrStrandBoss,IStrand::kDefaultIID));
then call stand->GetRunLength() a number of times until, you are through the selected part of the text / paragraph

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