v2003 Timeline

[Al Edlund]

I can set the shapesheet to what I need, but timeline won't update the
drawing unless you go through the menu. how do you trigger the addon to do a
redraw?
Al

 

[Al Edlund]

figured it out

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

and the answer was? ;-)

 

[Al Edlund]

John,
A couple of superflous facts first. The TimeLine addon in V2003 supports the
ability to import a 'script like' configuration to draw a timeline. The
utility is called TLImpt.exe. For those that don't want to write code.

V2003 appears to have changed some addon types of things. Specifically
RUNADDONWARGS.

I had to use this type of scenario to 'phoney' up the field updates :

Dim objAddOn As Object
Set objAddOn = appVisio.Addons
Set objAddOn = appVisio.Addons.Item("ts")
Application.AlertResponse = 1 ' since the menu being called should be
objAddOn.Run ("/cmd=4") ' initalized from the updated shapesheet
Application.AlertResponse = 0 ' we can just fake it out this way

The commands are visible in the actions section of the shapesheet for the
different types of objects that are supported (timeline, interval, event,
etc.)
Have a great one,
Al

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Thanks Al.

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questions and responses.

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[Al Edlund]

forgive the typo in previous append should only be one set objAddon (the one
with the item).
al