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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / July 2005Connectors
In Excel, there is a ConnectorFormat property in Shape object. We did not find such object in Word API. How to get the ConnectorFormat object from shape object? Thanks Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > In Excel, there is a ConnectorFormat property in Shape object. > We did not find such object in Word API. > How to get the ConnectorFormat object from shape object? Whether and how Word supports connectors depends on the version of Word. The Word 2003 (and possibly 2002) object model provides the AddConnector method for objects in a DrawingCanvas. This returns a Shape object, which you can manipulate as a shape. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Dear cindy, We are trying to read an existing connector object from word document, but the AddConnector method which you specifeid is used for creating connector object. Please specify the method to read connector object and then the connector format object from the word document with regards, Ravi > Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow > question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > We are trying to read an existing connector object from word > document, but the AddConnector method which you specifeid is used for > creating connector object. > > Please specify the method to read connector object and then the connector > format object from the word document Dim shp as Word.Shape Set shp = shapeInCanvas.AddConnector Now format the connector same as you would any other Shape object. However, in order to change to what it's connected I believe you'd have to delete it and recreate a new Connector. It's important to realize that everything to do with the Shapes collection is not native to Word. It's coming from an outside library, used by all Office applications. And some things simply aren't exposed the way we'd like... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Dear cindy, As we need not know the parameters of the existing connector object, we cant recreate the connector object. Do you think that the word API does not support reading connector object as other Excel API etc? With regards, ravi > Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > Do you think that the word API does not support reading connector object as > other Excel API etc? Almost certainly, the interface is not the same. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Dear Cindy, Is there any other method other than AddConnector for retrieving the connector object information from the word document. The problem is we have a picture object contaning Connectors embedded in it.The thing is we have to retrieve the connector object information Programitically. Please kindly understand our problem and respond immediately. With Regards, Ravi If it's not present > Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmF2aQ==?=, > Please kindly understand our problem and respond immediately. You do realize you're in a peer-to-peer support group. All volunteers; no one is paid or required to answer your questions. One can make allowances for different cultures, but if you want help from a group like this, it's better to not make your request sound like a demand. > Is there any other method other than AddConnector for retrieving the > connector object information from the word document. It's a Shape. You can loop through the Shapes collection (or CanvasItems if this is a drawing canvas) and pick up any individual item. But as far as I can tell, Word doesn't give you any way to even identify that you're dealing with a Connector, as opposed to any other kind of shape. It appears to return an AutoShapeType of -2 (msoShapeMixed), and that's it. You may need to turn to the official Microsoft Support to pursue this. The only other suggestion I can offer is that you copy the stuff into Excel, analyze it there where the tools are available, then copy it back into Word. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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