Share via

Window.GetWindowRect Method

  • Article
Visio Automation Reference

Gets the size and position of the client area of a window.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 2000

Syntax

expression.GetWindowRect(pnLeft, pnTop, pnWidth, pnHeight)

expression   A variable that represents a Window object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
pnLeft Required Long The coordinate of the left side of the window.
pnTop Required Long The coordinate of the top of the window.
pnWidth Required Long The distance in pixels from the left side to the right side of the window.
pnHeight Required Long The distance in pixels from the top to the bottom of the window.

Return Value
Nothing

Remarks

The GetWindowRect method gets the size and position of the client area of the window with respect to the window that owns the Windows collection to which it belongs. For the Windows collection of an Application object, the "with respect to" window is the MDICLIENT window of the Microsoft Office Visio main window. For the Windows collection of a Window object, the "with respect to" window is the client area of the drawing window.

Example

The following example shows how to use the GetWindowRect method to get the size and position of a Window object. It opens the Pan & Zoom window and prints the window's coordinates, width, and height in the Immediate window.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Public Sub GetWindowRect_Example()

Dim vsoApplication As Visio.Application
Dim vsoPZWindow As Visio.Window
Dim pinLeft As Long, pinTop As Long, pinWidth As Long, pinHeight As Long

Set vsoApplication = Visio.Application

'Display the Pan & Zoom window
Set vsoPZWindow = vsoApplication.ActiveWindow.Windows.ItemFromID(visWinIDPanZoom)    
vsoPZWindow.Visible = True

'Get the existing window size and position
vsoPZWindow.GetWindowRect pinLeft, pinTop, pinWidth, pinHeight
Debug.Print pinLeft, pinTop, pinWidth, pinHeight

'Change the window height and get the new values
vsoPZWindow.SetWindowRect pinLeft, pinTop, pinWidth, pinHeight + 50
vsoPZWindow.GetWindowRect pinLeft, pinTop, pinWidth, pinHeight
Debug.Print pinLeft, pinTop, pinWidth, pinHeight



End Sub

See Also