Is there any way to get some kind of constant art object ref/id, that can be used to get art handle between illustrator app sessions.
For example, i want to store reference to object, to document dictionary, so when i reopen saved document, i can get art handle of my object from dictionary. Is there some way to do that?
I have tried to save uidrefref entries: AIEntryRef entry = sAIEntry->FromUIDREF(artUIDRefRef) but looks like they are always new after document close/open. Or maybe i am doing something wrong.
It's my understanding that handle values are pointers (actually pointers to pointers) to locations in memory, and therefore would almost never have the same value in more than one session. I wrote some scripts that refer back to certain items over many sessions, and they work by attaching a tag to the object of interest. Hope that helps. -- rj
Problem was caused by DictKey instances, that were for some reason automatically deleted, when key string starts with hyphen. Can't find anithyng in the docs, about such behavior.
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