M$ code not working...

Hm, most confusing. If I go to the CanvasShapes bit of the Office XP help (do a search in VBA help, Word) and get the code therein for adding a new canvas item followed by some shapes, then I find it doesn't work in my current project.
However, if I start a new document, bung a button in and paste the code in there it does.

What is going on?

zaza

In a module in my current document I pasted in the MS code and it worked?

VB Code:

'From MS Help Code Example
Sub AddCanvasShapes()
    Dim shpCanvas As Shape
    Dim shpCanvasShapes As CanvasShapes
    Dim shpCnvItem As Shape
 
    'Adds a new canvas to the document
    Set shpCanvas = ActiveDocument.Shapes _
        .AddCanvas(Left:=100, Top:=75, _
        Width:=50, Height:=75)
    Set shpCanvasShapes = shpCanvas.CanvasItems
 
    'Adds shapes to the CanvasShapes collection
    With shpCanvasShapes
        .AddShape Type:=msoShapeRectangle, _
            Left:=0, Top:=0, Width:=50, Height:=50
        .AddShape Type:=msoShapeOval, _
            Left:=5, Top:=5, Width:=40, Height:=40
        .AddShape Type:=msoShapeIsoscelesTriangle, _
            Left:=0, Top:=25, Width:=50, Height:=50
    End With
End Sub

Indeed. And I can get it to work in a new document. But in the one I'm developing in it doesn't work, mostly. And sometimes it'll work but lose the border, so effectively it's invisible.

Mmm, strange.

And I suppose re-creating the document will be too much work in case the doc may be partially damaged or ???

Latest 2003 service pack 2 installed and Office Update?

VB Code:

Sub NewCanvasPicture()
    Dim shpCanvas As Shape
 
    'Add a drawing canvas to the active document
    Set shpCanvas = ActiveDocument.Shapes _
        .AddCanvas(Left:=100, Top:=75, _
        Width:=200, Height:=300)
 
    'Add a graphic to the drawing canvas
    shpCanvas.CanvasItems.AddPicture _
        FileName:="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\" & _
            "Office\Bitmaps\Styles\stone.bmp", _
        LinkToFile:=False, SaveWithDocument:=True
End Sub

OK, how's about this? From the "Addpicture" part of Office Help. Feel free to substitute your own piccy.


zaza

I get an "Argument not optional".

VB Code:

Sub NewCanvasPicture()
    Dim shpCanvas As Shape
 
    'Add a drawing canvas to the active document
    Set shpCanvas = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddCanvas(Left:=100, Top:=75, Width:=200, Height:=300)
 
    'Add a graphic to the drawing canvas
    shpCanvas.CanvasItems.AddPicture FileName:="D:\Dog1.gif", LinkToFile:=False, SaveWithDocument:=True
End Sub

As do I. I think I have tracked it down, though. It appears that the Left and Top are not, in fact, optional, and that you can't set both linktofile and Savewithdocument to be false. They both also have to be there, despite the fact that Help suggests that they are optional.

Grrrr [wrestles with bone]

zaza

Solved it! Seems that the size of the picture must be in a different unit so when you specify the same size as the canvas its is invalid. Also, the left and top can not be outside the canvas area.

This works!

VB Code:

Sub NewCanvasPicture()
    Dim shpCanvas As Shape
 
    'Add a drawing canvas to the active document
    Set shpCanvas = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddCanvas(Left:=100, Top:=75, Width:=200, Height:=300)
 
    'Add a graphic to the drawing canvas
    shpCanvas.CanvasItems.AddPicture FileName:="D:\Dog1.gif", LinkToFile:=False, SaveWithDocument:=True, Left:=1, Top:=1, Width:=20, Height:=30
End Sub

Aha! You can then resize it by Setting this to some variable, then changing the width and height. The canvas then sizes automatically.

Hurrah!

Care to look at my other problems now...? :D

Cheers Rob.

zaza