UIObject.MenuSets property (Visio)

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01/19/2022

Returns the MenuSets collection of a UIObject object. Read-only.

Syntax

expression. MenuSets

expression A variable that represents a UIObject object.

Return value

MenuSets

Remarks

Note

Starting with Visio 2010, the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI) replaced the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes. VBA objects and members that you used to customize the user interface in previous versions of Visio are still available in Visio, but they function differently.

If a UIObject object represents menus and accelerators (for example, if the object was retrieved using the BuiltInMenus property of an Application or Document object), its MenuSets collection represents all of the menus for that UIObject object.

Use the ItemAtID property of a MenuSets object to retrieve menus for a particular window context such as the drawing window. If a context does not include menus, it has no MenuSets collection.

Example

This Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows how to use the MenuSets property to get the MenuSets collection of a UIObject object. It adds a menu and menu item to the drawing window menu set and sets the menu and menu item's Caption properties.

To restore the built-in menus in Microsoft Visio after you run this macro, call the ThisDocument.ClearCustomMenus method.

Public Sub MenuSets_Example() 
 
 Dim vsoUIObject As Visio.UIObject 
 Dim vsoMenuSets As Visio.MenuSets 
 Dim vsoMenuSet As Visio.MenuSet 
 Dim vsoMenus As Visio.Menus 
 Dim vsoMenu As Visio.Menu 
 Dim vsoMenuItems As Visio.MenuItems 
 Dim vsoMenuItem As Visio.MenuItem 
 
 'Get a UIObject object that represents Microsoft Visio built-in menus. 
 Set vsoUIObject = Visio.Application.BuiltInMenus 
 
 'Get the MenuSets collection. 
 Set vsoMenuSets = vsoUIObject.MenuSets 
 
 'Get the drawing window menu set. 
 Set vsoMenuSet = vsoMenuSets.ItemAtId(visUIObjSetDrawing) 
 
 'Get the Menus collection. 
 Set vsoMenus = vsoMenuSet.Menus 
 
 'Add a new menu before the Window menu. 
 Set vsoMenu = vsoMenus.AddAt(7) 
 vsoMenu.Caption = "MyNewMenu" 
 
 'Get the MenuItems collection. 
 Set vsoMenuItems = vsoMenu.MenuItems 
 
 'Add a menu item to the new menu. 
 Set vsoMenuItem = vsoMenuItems.Add 
 
 'Set the Caption property for the new menu item. 
 vsoMenuItem.Caption = "&MyNewMenuItem" 
 
 'Tell Visio to use the new UI when the document is active. 
 ThisDocument.SetCustomMenus vsoUIObject 
 
End Sub

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