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DrawingPaths Property [Visio 2003 SDK Documentation]

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Gets or sets the paths where Microsoft Office Visio looks for drawings.

strRet = object**.DrawingPaths**

object**.DrawingPaths** = pathsStr

object     Required. An expression that returns an Application object.

strRet, pathsStr     String. A text string containing a list of folders. To indicate more than one folder, use semicolons to separate individual items in the path string.

Version added

4.0

Remarks

The DrawingPaths property is set to an empty string ("") by default.

The string passed to and received from the DrawingPaths property is the same string shown in the File Paths dialog box. (On the Tools menu, click Options, click the Advanced tab, and then click File Paths.) This string is stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\Application\DrawingsPath subkey.

Visio looks for drawings in all paths named in the DrawingPaths property and all the subfolders of those paths. If you pass the DrawingPaths property to the EnumDirectories method, it returns a complete list of fully qualified paths in the folders passed in.

Setting the DrawingPaths property replaces existing values for DrawingPaths in the File Paths dialog box. To retain existing values, get the existing string and then append the new file path to that string, as shown in the following code:

Application.DrawingPaths = Application.DrawingPaths & ";" & "newpath".

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Applies to | Application object | InvisibleApp object

See Also | AddonPaths property | EnumDirectories method | HelpPaths property | Path property | StartupPaths property | StencilPaths property | TemplatePaths property