smartdocuments all use the same instance of the dll   

Hi,

I am working with smartdocument technologies in VB.net, and the problem
I am having is that when 2 or more smartdocuments are opened, they use
the same instance of the dll, because word uses the same process for
all open documents.

This means I cannot have global variables, and when the user clicks on
the task pane, there is no way of identifying in which document the
action has been called.

The events OnListOrComboSelectChange(), OnCheckboxChange() etc.. that
handle task pane actions, have no parameters that allow me to identify
the document. Document's filepaths are unique, so I could use that, but
to get the filepath of the document you need to create a word object
and set it to a documentpath..

The only solution I can think of is having the filepath in an xml tag
in the document, and read that attribute whenever I need to identify
the document.

If anyone can think of a better solution, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks, 

Sylvain.

date: 28 Oct 2005 07:43:07 -0700   author:   Sylvain