Comments on: User-defined ShapeSheet Functions in Visio 2007 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/ Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tips & Developer Info for Microsoft Visio Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Visio Guy http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-15599 Visio Guy Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:47:35 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/#comment-15599 Hi Andy, A lot of it is historical. The ShapeSheet has been around for many years, and it has been very useful on many accounts. It allows you to get a lot of stuff done without programming, which can be seen as a feature for many reasons. This new function-functionality is an incremental improvement. Ugly yes, but better than no improvement, I guess! Visio has a full automation model that can be driven from VBA, VB.NET, C#, C++, etc...so like you say, do it' wit' VBA! :) - Chris Hi Andy,

A lot of it is historical. The ShapeSheet has been around for many years, and it has been very useful on many accounts. It allows you to get a lot of stuff done without programming, which can be seen as a feature for many reasons.

This new function-functionality is an incremental improvement. Ugly yes, but better than no improvement, I guess!

Visio has a full automation model that can be driven from VBA, VB.NET, C#, C++, etc…so like you say, do it’ wit’ VBA! :)

- Chris

]]> By: Andy Glew http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-15598 Andy Glew Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:38:20 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/#comment-15598 I'm glad to see this "function"-ality (pun intended). Although it won;t help me for a while, because Intel's *&T^%%&^%&% IT department refuses to upgrade past Visio 2003. Still: why all this ugly, pseudo-spreadsheet, stuff? Why not provide real functions inside the smartsheet - with iterators, loops, etc? I'm guessing the reason is something like "if you really want to do that, use VBA". I’m glad to see this “function”-ality (pun intended). Although it won;t help me for a while, because Intel’s *&T^%%&^%&% IT department refuses to upgrade past Visio 2003.

Still: why all this ugly, pseudo-spreadsheet, stuff? Why not provide real functions inside the smartsheet – with iterators, loops, etc?

I’m guessing the reason is something like “if you really want to do that, use VBA”.

]]> By: Chris Mitchell http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-12152 Chris Mitchell Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:15:20 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/#comment-12152 Visio Guy Thank you for the illuminating examples; I wasn't too thrilled about the emphasis on themes in the 2007 offering. It is nice to see the developers threw us a bone with this functionality of custom shapesheet functions. Chris Visio Guy

Thank you for the illuminating examples; I wasn’t too thrilled about the emphasis on themes in the 2007 offering. It is nice to see the developers threw us a bone with this functionality of custom shapesheet functions.

Chris

]]> By: Chris Castillo (MS) http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Chris Castillo (MS) Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:03:06 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/#comment-489 Chris-- This is a really cool example! Hope you don't mind, I'm going to use this in my next Visio developer training I give. I'm also going to tell the class to subscribe to your great blog! Chris– This is a really cool example! Hope you don’t mind, I’m going to use this in my next Visio developer training I give. I’m also going to tell the class to subscribe to your great blog!

]]> By: Mark Nelson (MS) http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Mark Nelson (MS) Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:09:15 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/2007/01/01/user-defined-shapesheet-functions-in-visio-2007/#comment-277 Thanks for the excellent write-up on this feature, Chris. It really can be a powerful feature - if a bit hard to understand. We had quite a lot of debate over the naming of ARG and EVALCELL following the not-so-well-understood SETATREF and SETATREFEXPR functions in 2003. Thanks for the excellent write-up on this feature, Chris. It really can be a powerful feature – if a bit hard to understand. We had quite a lot of debate over the naming of ARG and EVALCELL following the not-so-well-understood SETATREF and SETATREFEXPR functions in 2003.

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