Run code in component when document loads with it

Grasshopper Developer
1

Suppose a component was placed in a document, saved and closed. Fresh day, no docs are open. When a document containing the component is opened, I would like to know so I run some specific code in the component.

Component constructors run during plugin load and also during document opening so it is not helpful. The Read function sounded good until I found out that the Instances.ActiveDocument property is null when this method runs.

Is there really no standard way to do that in GH?

2

Try AddedToDocument(). Just check that the document.Enabled property is false, to avoid the cases when component is added to the document by user later.

public override void AddedToDocument(GH_Document document)
{
     if (document.Enabled == false)
          OnComponentAddedDuringDocumentLoad(); // Your method here
     base.AddedToDocument(document);
}