ApplicationSettings.StencilBackgroundColorGradient Property

Visio Automation Reference

Determines the background gradient color of the Microsoft Office Visio stencil window. Read/write.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 2003

Syntax

expression.StencilBackgroundColorGradient

expression   A variable that represents an ApplicationSettings object.

Return Value
OLE_COLOR

Remarks

Valid values for an OLE_COLOR property within Visio can be one of the following:

• &H00bbggrr, where bb is the blue value between 0 and 0xFF (255), gg the green value, and rr the red value.
• &H800000xx, where xx is a valid GetSysColor index.

For details about the GetSysColor function, search for "GetSysColor" in the Microsoft Platform SDK on MSDN.

The OLE_COLOR data type is used for properties that return colors. When a property is declared as OLE_COLOR, the Properties window displays a color-picker dialog box that allows the user to select the color for the property visually, rather than having to remember the numeric equivalent.

In addition, you can use the following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) color constants for OLE_COLOR.

Constant	Value	Description
vbBlack	0x0	Black
vbRed	0xFF	Red
vbGreen	0xFF00	Green
vbYellow	0xFFFF	Yellow
vbBlue	0xFF0000	Blue
vbMagenta	0xFF00FF	Magenta
vbCyan	0xFFFF00	Cyan
vbWhite	0xFFFFFF	White

Setting the StencilBackgroundColorGradient property is equivalent to setting the Background color 2 option under Stencil window in the Color Settings dialog box. (On the Tools menu, click Options, click Advanced, and then click Color Settings.)

You can set the background gradient color for an individual stencil window by using the ActiveWindow.Windows(n).BackgroundColorGradient property, where n represents the index number of the stencil window in the Windows collection. When a stencil window is opened as a floating window, it can be an active window, and you can set its background gradient color by using the ActiveWindow.BackgroundColorGradient property. If you have opened a stencil window in this manner, setting the BackgroundColor property of the active stencil window to a value other than the default (-1) overrides the StencilBackgroundColorGradient setting for that window. To be able to reset the background gradient color of the same active stencil window by setting the StencilBackgroundColorGradient property, you must reset BackgroundColorGradient to its default value, -1. If multiple stencil windows of this type are open, setting BackgroundColorGradient for one window has no effect on the setting for other open windows.

Note
You can specify two colors for the stencil background. If users' screen resolution is adequate, one of the colors will grade into the other from the top to the bottom of the screen. To be able to use this feature, users must set their monitors to display 32-bit color. The ability to set stencil background color programmatically for users running in high-contrast mode is restricted.

See Also

• ApplicationSettings Object
• ApplicationSettings Object Members