Shape.Paths property (Visio)

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

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.

 
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

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