State Property [Visio 2003 SDK Documentation]

Determines a button's state, pressed or not pressed.

intRet = object**.State**

object**.State** = intExpression

intRet     Integer. The state of the button.

object     Required. An expression that returns a Menu, MenuItem, or ToolbarItem object.

intExpression     Required Integer. The new state of the button.

Version added

2000

Remarks

The State property can be one of the following constants declared by the Visio type library in VisUIButtonState.

Constant	Value	Description
visButtonUp	0	Button is not pressed
visButtonDown	-1	Button is pressed

Example

This example shows how to use the State property to set the state of a toolbar button (make it appear pressed). The example adds a custom toolbar button to the Standard toolbar. Pressing the button saves the active document. This button appears in the Microsoft Office Visio user interface and is available while the document is active.

Before running this code, replace path\filename with the full path to and name of a valid icon (.ico) file on your computer.

To restore the built-in Visio toolbars after you run this macro, call the ThisDocument.ClearCustomToolbars method.

Sub State_Example() 

    Dim vsoUIObject As Visio.UIObject 
    Dim vsoToolbarSet As Visio.ToolbarSet   
    Dim vsoToolbarItems As Visio.ToolbarItems 
    Dim vsoToolbarItem As Visio.ToolbarItem 

    'Check whether there are document custom toolbars. 
    If ThisDocument.CustomToolbars Is Nothing Then

        'If not, check whether there are application custom toolbars. 
        If Visio.Application.CustomToolbars Is Nothing Then

            'If there are no custom toolbars, use the built-in toolbars. 
            Set vsoUIObject = Visio.Application.BuiltInToolbars(0) 

        Else

            'If there are application custom toolbars, copy them. 
            Set vsoUIObject = Visio.Application.CustomToolbars.Clone 

        End If  

    Else

        'If there already are document custom toolbars, use them. 
        Set vsoUIObject = ThisDocument.CustomToolbars 

    End If  

    'Get the Toolbars collection for the drawing window context. 
    Set vsoToolbarSet = vsoUIObject.ToolbarSets.ItemAtID(visUIObjSetDrawing) 

    'Get the set of toolbar items for the Standard toolbar. 
    Set vsoToolbarItems = vsoToolbarSet.Toolbars(0).ToolbarItems 

    'Add a new button in the first position. 
    Set vsoToolbarItem = vsoToolbarItems.AddAt(0)
 
    'Set properties for the new toolbar button. 
    vsoToolbarItem.CntrlType = visCtrlTypeBUTTON 
    vsoToolbarItem.CmdNum = visCmdFileSave 
    vsoToolbarItem.Style = visButtonIconandCaption 
    vsoToolbarItem.State = visButtonDown 
    vsoToolbarItem.IconFileName "path\filename"

 
    'Use the new UIObject object while this document is active. 
    ThisDocument.SetCustomToolbars vsoUIObject 

End Sub

Applies to | Menu object | MenuItem object | ToolbarItem object