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Application.QueueMarkerEvent Method

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Visio Automation Reference

Queues a MarkerEvent event that fires after all other queued events.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 5.0

Syntax

expression.QueueMarkerEvent(ContextString)

expression   A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
ContextString Required String An arbitrary string that is passed with the event that fires.

Return Value
Long

Remarks

The QueueMarkerEvent method works in conjunction with the MarkerEvent event to allow an Automation client to queue an event to itself. The QueueMarkerEvent method causes the application to fire a MarkerEvent event after it has fired all the events in its event queue.

The QueueMarkerEvent method returns the sequence number of the MarkerEvent event to fire, and the string passed to the QueueMarkerEvent method (legally empty) is passed to the MarkerEvent event handler.

A client program can use either the sequence number or the string to correlate QueueMarkerEvent calls with MarkerEvent events. In this way, the client is able to distinguish events it caused and events it did not cause.

Example

Paste this example code into the ThisDocument object and then run the UseMarker procedure. The output will be displayed in the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Immediate window.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  
Dim WithEvents vsoApplication As Visio.Application 

Private Sub vsoApplication_MarkerEvent(ByVal app As Visio.IVApplication, _
ByVal SequenceNum As Long, ByVal ContextString As String)


Debug.Print "Marker: " & app.EventInfo(0)



End Sub


Private Sub vsoApplication_ShapeAdded(ByVal Shape As Visio.IVShape)


Debug.Print " ShapeAdded: " & Shape.Name



End Sub


Public Sub UseMarker()


Set vsoApplication = ThisDocument.Application 

'Marker events can be used to comment a segment
'of events in the queue. 
vsoApplication.QueueMarkerEvent "I am starting..." 
ActivePage.DrawRectangle 0, 0, 3, 3 
vsoApplication.QueueMarkerEvent "I am finished..." 



End Sub

The output in the VBA Immediate window looks like this:

Marker: I am starting...

ShapeAdded: Sheet.1

Marker: I am finished...

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