Professional Development with Visio® 2000

Using External UI Files

Now that you are concerned about binding to the application object, let's take a moment to discuss how different bindings work and how you can create, save, and load external interface files.

To create a UI object outside of Visio, use the following:

Dim UIObj As Object

Set UIObj = CreateObject("Visio.UIObject")

This creates an EMPTY UIObject. This is a good way to build minimal UIs.

Saving a UI object to a file is accomplished by the following:

UIObj.SaveToFile("c:\visio\solutions\mymenues.vsu")

Loading a UI object from a file is done by

UIObj.LoadFromFile("c:\visio\solutions\mymenues.vsu")

Binding a UI object to the Visio application is done by

AppVisio.CustomToolbarsFile = "c:\visio\solutions\mytools.vsu"