InDesign GUI Design Guideline Document?

Hi all,
I was asked for a GUI Guideline Documentation for InDesign product (plugin), I searched the SDK and the only thing I found close to this "ww-user-interface.pdf" =, I Just wondering if you aware of any other resource that describes gui elements, usage, ... for designing User Interface in InDesign.
TA

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There are tools - The debug build has a palette with plenty live information, including the boss class in use. If I need more details I use an own plugin to iterate through the widgets and produce a dump.
Besides there is also the Eclipse based resource editor, but I prefer copy-paste from my own sources using computed exact dimensions rather than manually approximated layouts.
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