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InvisibleApp.CommandBars property (Visio)

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Returns a reference to the CommandBars collection that represents the command bars in the container application. Read-only.

Note

Starting with Visio 2010, the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI) replaced the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes. VBA objects and members that you used to customize the user interface in previous versions of Visio are still available in Visio, but they function differently.

Syntax

expression.CommandBars

expression A variable that represents an InvisibleApp object.

Return value

CommandBars

Remarks

Beginning with Microsoft Visio 2002, a program can manipulate menus and toolbars in the Visio user interface by manipulating the CommandBars collection returned by the CommandBars property. The CommandBars collection has an interface identical to the CommandBars collection exposed by the suite of Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Alternatively, since Visio version 4.0, Visio has exposed application and document properties that return a UIObject object that provides similar functionality to CommandBars. Consequently, programs can use either the CommandBars collection or UIObject objects to manipulate the Visio menus and toolbars.

To get information about the object returned by the CommandBars property:

  1. On the Developer tab, choose Visual Basic.

  2. On the View menu, choose Object Browser.

  3. In the Project/Library list, choose Office.

  4. If you don't see the Office type library in the Project/Library list, on the Tools menu, choose References, select the Microsoft Office 14.0 Object Library check box, and then choose OK.

  5. Under Classes, examine the class named CommandBars.

Each CommandBarControl object in a CommandBars collection has an OnAction property, and each CommandBar object in a CommandBars collection has a Context property. The values of these properties are determined by the container application. In Microsoft Visio:

  • The OnAction property is a String value that is interpreted either as a COM add-in, as a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro, as VBA code, or as a Visio add-on name.

  • The Context property determines in which menu context a command bar appears.

    • The menu context number is a String value (for example visUIObjSetDrawing or "2"), which is followed by an asterisk if the command bar is visible by default (for example, visUIObjSetShapeSheet & "*" or "4*").
    • Valid menu contexts are visUIObjSetDrawing (2), visUIObjSetStencil (3), visUIObjSetShapeSheet (4), visUIObjSetIcon (5), or visUIObjSetPrintPreview (7). Attempting to set the Context property to any other value will fail.

Example

This macro shows how to use the CommandBars property to list the command bars.

 
Public Sub CommandBars_Example() 
 
 Dim vsoCommandBars As CommandBars 
 Dim vsoCommandBar As CommandBar 
 
 'Get the set of CommandBars 
 'for the application. 
 Set vsoCommandBars = Application.CommandBars 
 
 'List each CommandBar in the Immediate window. 
 For Each vsoCommandBar In vsoCommandBars 
 Debug.Print vsoCommandBar.Name 
 Next 
 
End Sub

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