I've done some more testing and realized that while the method I was working in does get called, it only gets called when a new document is created, which means that I need to change my entire game plan.

Basically, what I need to do is be notified when the user enters into isolation mode so I can handle data accordingly.  I'm actually fairly new to building Illustrator plug-ins, but not to C++ in general.  I've found in the documentation that Illustrator sends out the kAIIsolationModeChangedNotifier when the user goes into isolation mode, but how would I go about catching this in Illustrator?  Would I need to build a new method specifically for this? 

I looked around the examples and didn't really see one that matched my situation, maybe I overlooked it?

Sorry for asking such a newbie question, but I am a bit more used to building with wxWidgets, etc. and got this project dropped in my lap from the previous developer with no one to turn to.

Thanks again!

Well, I've followed your advice and I think I'm getting somewhere (however slowly).

I've added a few lines to my main panel's notify method:

void MainPanel::Notify(IADMNotifier notifier)

{

     BaseADMDialog::Notify(notifier);

     ADMItemRef item = notifier.GetItem();

     if (!item && notifier.IsNotifierType(kADMBoundsChangeNotifier))

     {

          this->ResizePanel(notifier);

     }

     // New code here, for detecting isolation mode.

     if (notifier.IsNotifierType(kAIIsolationModeChangedNotifier))

     {

          printf("Isolation mode entered.");

     }

     else

     {

          printf("Not Isolation mode?");

     }

}

Everything builds and runs correctly except for that it never seems to catch the kAIIsolationModeChangedNotifier. As this is a notify method attached to my main panel, it catches a lot of actions, but only ever outputs "Not Isolation mode?".

I take this as meaning that I have the right idea, but I'm no placing it in the right place to actually receive the kAIIsolationModeChangedNotifier.  I figured the main panel's notifier would be perfect, but apparently it's not.  Any ideas on where I can catch the kAIIsolationModeChangedNotifier?

Thanks again!

EDIT:

I've also tried adding a block of code that manually checks to see if Illustrator is currently in Isolation Mode or not, but it always crashes.

AIIsolationModeSuite* sAIIsolationModeSuite = new AIIsolationModeSuite();

printf("Instantiated sAIIsolationModeSuite.\n");

bool IsInIsolationModeBoolean = false;

printf("Created the IsInIsolationModeBoolean variable and set it to false.");

IsInIsolationModeBoolean = sAIIsolationModeSuite->IsInIsolationMode();          // Crashes here.

printf("Called the IsInIsolationMode() method.\n");

if (IsInIsolationModeBoolean == false)

{

     printf("true");

}

else

{

     printf("false");

}

It always crashes when I call the IsInIsolationMode() method. All of the printf statements up until that point display correctly, so I know that everything up until that method call is just fine.  From what I could grasp from the documentation, the IsInIsolationMode() method only checks if Illustrator is currently in Isolation Mode or not and returns a boolean value.  Why would it crash??

I don't really care if I use a notifier or manually check, as long as I can get it done.

That was it!

I just needed to add an AddNotifier call and it worked as expected.

Now I just need it to trigger one of the buttons in the interface...

Guess I'll start a new thread.

Thanks again!