Open multiple indd docs through SDK

Question

Hi guys
How can I open multiple indesign documents found in a folder chosen
through a folder chooser?
I need to open each indesign doc in that folder and do some
modification on each.
Here is what I have already written. Now how do I proceed please
SDKFolderChooser folderChooser;
folderChooser.SetTitle("Select folder where Indesign Docs are");
folderChooser.ShowDialog();
if (!folderChooser.IsChosen())
break; // cancelled
IDFile inFolder = folderChooser.GetIDFile();
PMString inFolderPath = folderChooser.GetPath();
if (inFolderPath.IsEmpty())
break;
//Now open loop through each file and do some processing on each one at a time
Logically I just have to loop through all the files in that folder,
open them and do my processing but I just cant find the right snippets
anywhere. I guess its pretty easy for u guys but am real new at that
and just cant find any examples anywhere.
Thanks for your help
Alicia

Answer 1

Hi Alicia!
You can use the FileSystemIterator to go through all the files in a folder. See the paneltreeview sdk sample plug-in for example code for this.
Basically you probably want something like this:
    PlatformFileSystemIterator iter;
    iter.SetStartingPath(inFolderPath);
    IDFile idFile;
    PMString filter("\\*.indd");
    bool16 hasNext = iter.FindFirstFile(idFile, filter);
    SDKLayoutHelper helper;
    if (FileUtils::DoesFileExist(idFile))
      do
          UIDRef docRef(helper.OpenDocument(idFile));
          ASSERT(docRef);
          helper.OpenLayoutWindow(docRef);
          hasNext = iter.FindNextFile(idFile);
      while (hasNext);
Good luck!
Oh, you need to include the actual implementations of PlatformFileSystemIterator and SDKLayoutHelper to your project so they are compiled into the plug-in, as they arent part of the InDesign runtime libs.
/Andreas