Comments on: LengthIU Bug Workaround Code

By: stodds

stodds — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:02:02 +0000

Greetings,

Were the issues raised here ever sorted? I am having trouble getting this to work too and not having used VB before ain’t helping!

Cheers

Steve

By: neilkeron

neilkeron — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:58:01 +0000

John
I cant quite get it to work either.
If I change the statement shp = visio.activewindow.selction(1) to Set shp =visio.activewindow.selection(1), I get past the first error but then I get error 91 at ln = liuShp.LengthIU(shp), presumably because something has gone wrong in the function. If anyone can throw any light on this I would be grateful.

Regards
Neil Keron

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:56:31 +0000

This looks great, but I can’t quite get it to work. I get the old error 91, ‘Object variable or with block variable not set’ error here:

shp = Visio.ActiveWindow.Selection(1)

A few debugs show that there is an instance, and it can be assigned to shp if that is a Variant. But no joy if “Dim shp As Visio.Shape”

Any tips appreciated.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:08:57 +0000

Mark

Thanks for the tip on the arguments, don’t know how I missed those!

And the info in the link is cool. Foks, it looks like that in general, Data Graphic sub-shapes won’t be included in the LengthIU and AreaIU calculations! See Mark’s link above for more info!

- Chris

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:05:50 +0000

Bryan,

Are your quote marks the simple ones or the 66 99 quote marks? I noticed a problem when cutting from the blog and pasting in the VBA editor…

- Chris

By: Mark Nelson (MS)

Mark Nelson (MS) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:55:39 +0000

Hi Chris,

Note that starting in Visio 2003, the LengthIU and AreaIU properties take an argument indicating whether sub-shapes should be included. Also note that there are special exclusions for Data Graphic callouts as mentioned in the Visio 2007 help topics.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms196113.aspx

Mark

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:50:14 +0000

I have been looking for something like this for Visio 2003, but when I created the class, as per your directions, I kept getting errors, both compile time and run-time, the most common of which is: ‘Object variable or With block variable not set.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:52 +0000

Thanks Al!

It’s a 2003-only bug folks!

By: al edlund

al edlund — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:18:11 +0000

Chris,
this was one that showed up in 2003,
al