Automating Visio

[drluggo]

I am creating a visio stencil with several custom shapes. I want to associate events with these shapes such as right click, double click, etc. When I edit the stencil file (.vss), I have no problem with this by assigning the event to ThisDocument.MacroName.

My problem is that I want the behaviour to be exhibited when the user of the stencil places one of my shapes in his own drawing.

For example, I want to build a shape called "widget" inside my own stencil. When someone uses this stencil to place one of my shapes on their drawing, I want a double click to give a message "I am a widget".

This routine is in the .vss file:

Public Sub SendMessage

MsgBox "I am a widget

End Sub


When I associate the subroutine ThisDocument.SendMessage with the DoubleClick event, it works within the .vss file. However, when I just open a new drawing and insert the shape onto a random drawing the double click behaviour does not work.

I am pretty sure about why this happens with the way I have it set up but I am not sure how to do it correctly.

Any suggestions???

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi drluggo,

I know Visio is part of Office, but I am not very familiar with it and I don't think many people here are. There is a separate forum devoted to Visio (Forum172) and you may have better luck with this if you post there.

Enjoy,
Tony

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