Hiding a stencil

[Daniel Kloberg]

Hi!

I am currently developing a Visio add-in using c#. The add-in is dependent
of two stencils named TUI shapes.vss and System.vss. The Visio users uses
TUI Shapes.vss to drag and drop shapes to the drawing. The masters in
System.vss are only used internally by the add-in, so ideally, the users
should not be able to see it. Is there any way for me to hide System.vss
from the user, but still be able to access its masters from my code?

Regards,
Daniel Kloberg

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi!

I am currently developing a Visio add-in using c#. The add-in is dependent
of two stencils named TUI shapes.vss and System.vss. The Visio users uses
TUI Shapes.vss to drag and drop shapes to the drawing. The masters in
System.vss are only used internally by the add-in, so ideally, the users
should not be able to see it. Is there any way for me to hide System.vss
from the user, but still be able to access its masters from my code?

When opening the stencil, use the attribute visOpenHidden (40H).

 

[LarryF]

Here's how I do it in C#:

using Visio = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio;
....
app.Documents.OpenEx(fileName, (short)(Visio.VisOpenSaveArgs.visOpenRO
| Visio.VisOpenSaveArgs.visOpenHidden));

 

[Daniel Kloberg]

Thanks a lot, this should solve my problem.

/Daniel