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Shape.RowCount Property

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Visio Automation Reference

Returns the number of rows in a ShapeSheet section. Read-only.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 2.0

Syntax

expression.RowCount(Section)

expression   A variable that represents a Shape object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Section Required Integer The section whose rows to count.

Return Value
Integer

Remarks

The Section argument must be a section constant. For a list of section constants, see the AddSection method.

Use the RowCount property primarily with sections that contain a variable number of rows, such as Geometry and Connection Points sections. For sections that have a fixed number of rows, the RowCount property returns the number of rows in the section that possess at least one cell whose value is local to the shape, as opposed to rows whose cells are all inherited from a master or style. Inheriting from a master or style is usually better because Microsoft Office Visio does not need to store as much information. In the ShapeSheet window, cells with local values appear in blue, and cells with inherited values appear in black. You can use the IsInherited property to determine if a cell is inherited.

Example

This Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows how to use the RowCount property to find the number of ShapeSheet rows to iterate through.

To run this macro, open a blank drawing and the Computers and Monitors (US Units) stencil, and then insert a user form that contains a label, text box, and list box. Set the width of the list box to 150.

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The Computers and Monitors (US Units) stencil is available only in Microsoft Office Visio Professional.
Visual Basic for Applications 
  
Public Sub RowCount_Example()
 
    Dim vsoStencil As Visio.Document 
    Dim vsoMaster As Visio.Master 
    Dim vsoPages As Visio.Pages 
    Dim vsoPage As Visio.Page 
    Dim vsoShape As Visio.Shape 
    Dim vsoCell As Visio.Cell 
    Dim intRows As Integer
    Dim intCounter As Integer

'Get the Pages collection for the document.
'ThisDocument refers to the current document.
Set vsoPages = ThisDocument.Pages

'Get a reference to the first page of the Pages collection.
Set vsoPage = vsoPages(1) 

'Get the Document object for the stencil.
Set vsoStencil = Documents("COMPS_U.VSS") 

'Get the Master object for the desktop PC shape.
Set vsoMaster = vsoStencil.Masters("PC") 

'Drop the shape in the approximate middle of the page.
'Coordinates passed to the Drop method are always in inches.
'The Drop method returns a reference to the new shape object.
Set vsoShape = vsoPage.Drop(vsoMaster, 4.25, 5.5) 

'This example shows two methods of extracting custom
'properties. The first method retrieves the value of a custom
'property by name.
'Note that Prop.Manufacturer implies Prop.Manufacturer.Value.
Set vsoCell = vsoShape.Cells("Prop.Manufacturer") 

'Get the cell value as a string
'and put it into the text box on the form. 
UserForm1.TextBox1.Text = vsoCell.ResultStr(Visio.visNone) 

'Set the caption of the label. 
UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Prop.Manufacturer" 

'The second method of accessing custom properties uses
'section, row, cell. This method is best when you want
'to iterate through all the properties.
intRows = vsoShape.RowCount(Visio.visSectionProp) 

'Make sure the list box is cleared. 
UserForm1.ListBox1.Clear 

'Loop through all the rows and add the value of Prop.Manufacturer
'to the list box. Rows are numbered starting with 0.
For intCounter = 0 To intRows - 1 
    Set vsoCell = vsoShape.CellsSRC(Visio.visSectionProp, intCounter, visCustPropsValue) 
    UserForm1.ListBox1.AddItem vsoCell.LocalName & vbTab & _ 
        vsoCell.ResultStr(Visio.visNone) 
Next intCounter 

'Display the user form. 
UserForm1.Show 



End Sub

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