VBA Visio objects by purpose.md

Objects commonly handled in Macros, ordered by (percieved) commonness and the tasks associated with them.

Shape

• modify the geometry of a shape. Targetting cells like PinX, PinY, Width, Height, Angle, etc.

shp.Cells("Width").Formula = shp.Cells("Height").ResultIU

• modify the path of the geometry of a shape

for i = 1 to 10
  shp.Cells("Geometry1.X"&i).Formula = R*cos(i)
  shp.Cells("Geometry1.Y"&i).Formula = R*sin(i)
 next i

• Adding user or prop cells to shapes

if not shp.SectionExists(visSectionUser,False) then
  shp.AddSection visSectionUser
end if
if not shp.CellExists("user.spam", False) then
  shp.AddNamedRow visSectionUser, "spam", visTagDefault
end if

Selection and Shapes

• iterate over shapes

Application, Document and Documents

• get a handle on the application when remote controlling Visio from another software
• get or set the document properties
• open, edit and save documents and stencils

Page and Pages

• work with on several pages
• work with backgrounds
• toggle the visibility of pages

Layer and Layers

• manage layers - adding, deleting, setting properties

Masters

• editing masters

Styles and themes

Tasks by topic

Appearance of shapes

Pages and printing

Interactivity

Data