How can I obtain a programmatic reference to the document stencil?

[Ira Davis]

I need to be able to drop shapes using VBA from the document stencil. I
normally use the Page.Drop method and supply a master from a named stencil.
How can I get a reference to the document's stencil?

[AlEdlund]

the 'document stencil' is actually the collection of masters in the
working document

dim visMasters as visio.masters
visMasters = application.activedocument.masters

al

Post by Ira Davis
I need to be able to drop shapes using VBA from the document stencil. I
normally use the Page.Drop method and supply a master from a named stencil.
How can I get a reference to the document's stencil?

[Ira Davis]

Thanks for the response, I think this will be useful. I had called
OpenStencilWindow method of the ThisDocument object and explored the window
object in the VBA debugger. I found that the Window had a Document property
and I was able to use the Masters collection of that property to do what I
wanted. With your info, I now have at least two ways of locating masters.

Thanks.

Post by AlEdlund
the 'document stencil' is actually the collection of masters in the
working document
dim visMasters as visio.masters
visMasters = application.activedocument.masters
al

Post by Ira Davis
I need to be able to drop shapes using VBA from the document stencil. I
normally use the Page.Drop method and supply a master from a named stencil.
How can I get a reference to the document's stencil?