Window.BackgroundColor Property
Visio Automation Reference |
Determines the background color of the active Microsoft Office Visio drawing window and its associated print preview and full-screen view windows. Read/write.
Version Information
Version Added: Visio 2003
Syntax
expression.BackgroundColor
expression A variable that represents a Window object.
Return Value
OLE_COLOR
Remarks
Valid values for an OLE_COLOR property within Visio can be one of the following:
- &H00bbggrr, where bb is the blue value between 0 and 0xFF (255), gg the green value, and rr the red value.
- &H800000xx, where xx is a valid GetSysColor index.
For details about the GetSysColor function, search for "GetSysColor" in the Microsoft Platform SDK on MSDN.
The OLE_COLOR data type is used for properties that return colors. When a property is declared as OLE_COLOR, the Properties window in the Visual Basic Editor displays a color-picker dialog box that allows the user to select the color for the property visually, rather than having to remember the numeric equivalent.
In addition, you can use the following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) color constants for OLE_COLOR.
Constant | Value | Description |
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vbBlack |
0x0 |
Black |
vbRed |
0xFF |
Red |
vbGreen |
0xFF00 |
Green |
vbYellow |
0xFFFF |
Yellow |
vbBlue |
0xFF0000 |
Blue |
vbMagenta |
0xFF00FF |
Magenta |
vbCyan |
0xFFFF00 |
Cyan |
vbWhite |
0xFFFFFF |
White |
For a drawing window, print preview window, or full-screen view window, setting the BackgroundColor property of the window to a value other than the default (-1) overrides the ApplicationSettings.DrawingBackgroundColor, ApplicationSettings.PrintPreviewBackgroundColor, and ApplicationSettings.FullScreenBackgroundColor settings for that set of windows. To be able to reset these properties for the same set of windows, you must reset BackgroundColor to its default value, -1. If multiple drawings are open, setting BackgroundColor for one set of windows has no effect on the setting for other open window sets.
However, for a ShapeSheet window, setting the BackgroundColor property of the window to a value other than the default changes the background color of the ShapeSheet window, but has no effect on any of the other window settings.
Example
The following VBA macro shows how to use the BackgroundColor property to get and set the current drawing window background color. It also shows how to get an ApplicationSettings object from the Visio Application object, and it demonstrates the relationship between the BackgroundColor property and the ApplicationSettings.DrawingBackgroundColor property. This example assumes there is an active drawing window open in Visio and that initially all background color properties are set to their default values.
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