Hi, i have come up with a strange Indesign behaviour.

Iam working on InDesign CS4.Iam using IsSplineShape(const UIDRef& itemUIDRef, PMString& shape) const function for getting the type of shape of the polygon, placed on the page of a document.

code snippet of this function is as follows:

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bool16 SUIPanelObserver::IsSplineShape(const UIDRef& itemUIDRef, PMString& shape) const

{

    bool16 result = kFalse;

    InterfacePtr<IPathGeometry> pathGeometry(itemUIDRef,UseDefaultIID());

    if (pathGeometry != nil)

    {

        result = kTrue;

        PMPageItemType pathType = Utils<IPathUtils>()->WhichKindOfPageItem(pathGeometry);

        switch (pathType)

        {

        case kIsLine:

            shape = "Line";

            break;

        case kIsRectangle:

            shape = "Rectangle";

            break;

        case kIsCircle:

            shape = "Circle";

            break;

        case kIsOval:

            shape = "Oval";

            break;

        case kIsRegularPoly:

            shape = "RegularPoly";

            break;

        case kIsIrregularPoly:

            shape = "IrregularPoly";

            break;

        case kIsSquare:

            shape = "Square";

            break;

        default:

            shape = "Unknown";

            break;

        }

    }

    return result;

}

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The problem is that, inspite of returning shape of a polygon as RegularPoly or IrregularPoly, it is actually returning  Unknown shape.

Also,i have tried both functions:

                                   Utils<IPathUtils>()->IsIrregularPolygon(pathGeometry);

                                   Utils<IPathUtils>()->IsRegularPolygon(pathGeometry);

In each case it returns me kFalse, means,the shape in neither a RegularPolygon nor a IrregularPolygon.

Is that because of multiple closed path in the shape? because any polygon is drawn under a bound box and hence we will not get single closed path.

Any Idea??