Shape.Paths Property

  • Article
Visio Automation Reference

Returns a Paths collection that reports the coordinates of a shape's paths in the coordinate system of the shape's parent. Read-only.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 5.0

Syntax

expression.Paths

expression   A variable that represents a Shape object.

Return Value
Paths

Example

This Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro places a shape on the page, retrieves its Paths collection, and then uses the Points property of the Path object to return an array of points that defines a polyline approximating the Path object.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  
Public Sub Paths_Example()
 
    Dim vsoShape As Visio.Shape 
    Dim adblXYPoints() As Double
    Dim strPointsList As String
    Dim intOuterLoopCounter As Integer
    Dim intInnerLoopCounter As Integer

Set vsoShape = ActivePage.DrawOval(1, 1, 4, 4) 

For intOuterLoopCounter = 1 To vsoShape.Paths.Count 

    vsoShape.Paths(intOuterLoopCounter).Points 1#, adblXYPoints 
    For intInnerLoopCounter = LBound(adblXYPoints) To UBound(adblXYPoints) 
        strPointsList = strPointsList & adblXYPoints(intInnerLoopCounter) & Chr(10) 
    Next intInnerLoopCounter 

Next intOuterLoopCounter 
Debug.Print strPointsList 



End Sub

See Also