Visio Collections in Visio 2000

[Rick Taylor]

How can I establish an Object Collection which includes all the objects in a
Visio Drawing or all the objects of a particular visObjType in a drawing or
page?

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

You have to work with the hierarchies that Visio defines:

Document contains Pages
Page contains Shapes
Shapes can contain other Shapes

Visio does not expose a single collection of all items.

 

[Rick Taylor]

Thank you Mark.
This means if I want to count (or list) all the shapes in a document (.vsd),
I have to count the shapes per page. Each shape, however, may have
children, which means I have to go down the hierarchal tree to include all
shape group members, which is a recursive process (in general).
Rick

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

That is correct. Use the Shape.Type property to determine if a shape is a
group or not. If it is a group, you need to walk through its sub-shapes.

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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