IDocument Interface

Provides access to other objects in the document.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Desktop.

When To Use

Use the IDocument interface to get access to the document's title, type, accelerator table, commandbars collection, parent application, and Visual Basic project. Use IApplication::Document to get a reference to the document.

Members

		Description
	Accelerators	The accelerator table for this document.
	CommandBars	The commandbars collection in this document.
	ID	The unique id for this document.
	Parent	The application in which this document is open.
	Title	The title of this document.
	Type	The type of this document.
	VBProject	The VBProject for this document.

CoClasses that implement IDocument

CoClasses and Classes	Description
GMxDocument (esriArcGlobe)	Provides access to members that control the ArcGlobe document.
GxDocument (esriArcCatalog)	ESRI ArcCatalog Application Document.
MxDocument (esriArcMapUI)	ESRI Mx Document.
SxDocument (esriArcScene)	Provides access to members that control the ArcScene document.

Remarks

The document object is called MxDocument in ArcMap and GxDocument in ArcCatalog.

[Visual Basic 6.0]

Each VBA project contains a VBA class called ThisDocument. This class represents the document object. When you are working in the ThisDocument code window in VBA, you have direct access to the properties and methods on the IDocument interface.

The following VBA macro turns off all the toolbars in the application.

 Sub HideBars()
   Dim pApp As IApplication
   Set pApp = Application
   Dim pDoc As IDocument
   Set pDoc = pApp.Document
   Dim pCmdBars As ICommandBars
   Set pCmdBars = pDoc.CommandBars
   pCmdBars.HideAllToolbars
 End Sub

Since all the VBA projects have a class for the document object called ThisDocument, the above macro can be shortened to the following.

 Sub HideBars()
   Dim pCmdBars As ICommandBars
   Set pCmdBars = ThisDocument.CommandBars
   pCmdBars.HideAllToolbars
 End Sub

If you write this macro in the ThisDocument code window, this example can be shortened even further.