Showing shape sheetfrom drawing control.

[Stumple]

I have been trying to show the shape sheet from the drawing control and have
been unable to. I ran across a comment on a MS page that said that they do
not expose this functionality.

It it possible to show the Visio shape sheet for a shape or do I make my own
custom form?

Is there anything like printpreview that would allow me to show the Visio
shape sheet?

Thank you.

 

[JuneTheSecond]

Hi Stumple.

How would you like to use Shape Data window?
Shape Data window can display various cell values.
Cell formula may be shown, if you use VBA macro.

 

[Stumple]

JuneTheSecond,

That is exactly what I want. I want to be able to display the cell data so I
can see what the shape holds. I really do not need to be able to set it. I
only need to read it. Since visio had the shape sheet "display" already I
thought there might be a way to get to it but in reading MS sites I saw that
they do not expose this feature. maybe this has changed?

How can I show the Visio shape sheet?

Thank you.

 

[David Parker]

The ShapeSheet is not available from the Visio Drawing Control
The Shape Data/Custom Properties window is, but that is only for the SHape
Data/Custom Properties section
If you are a programmer, then you will need to use a control to view the
Window.Selection ... the Property Grid control is good for this purpose.

 

[Stumple]

That helps. I was more of wanting to see what the user defined cell data
holds such as in "Connections" and such when you make custom shapes and
define the shape sheet data yourself. I could write my own form to display
this but what I really wanted was the Shape Sheet which appears to be
unavailable.

Thank you.

 

[WapperDude]

Maybe I'm misinterpreting something here, but if all you want to do is look
at a shape's shapesheet, then, select the shape in the normal drawing window,
goto the toolbar, Window > Show ShapeSheet. Hope I'm not being overly simple
here. Apologies in advance.

Wapperdude

 

[David Parker]

I think the point is that the ShapeSheet is unavailable in the Drawing
Control, though it is, of course, available in full Visio UI.
I often loop through the cells in a section in code to see what is in
there...

 

[Stumple]

Basically what I am trying to do is add some developer tools to our
application which uses the drawing control. The shape sheet looked like a
nice addition but appears unavailable.