VisualShape Class
Represents a base type for geometric and group shapes.
public abstract class VisualShape : VisualDrawingPublic MustInherit Class VisualShape
Inherits VisualDrawing- Inheritance:
- System.ObjectVisualShape
- Derived
Properties
Format
Gets or sets the shape's formatting options.
Property Value
The shape's formatting options.
Remarks
This property always returns a new instance of a ShapeFormat that points to data associated with this shape. This reduces memory footprint since simpler internal structures can be used to hold the data and execution time increase is negligible since Garbage Collector has a very good performance for a short-lived (Generation 0) objects.
When setting a value, instance of a ShapeFormat won't actually be stored in this shape, but the data to which the instance points to will be copied. This enables easy copying of complex properties from one drawing to another.
Inherited Properties
| Action | Gets or sets the action settings for this drawing that specify what should happen when the user clicks on this drawing or hovers over this drawing with a pointing device such as a computer mouse. To remove all actions from this drawing, set this property to null. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| AlternativeText | Gets or sets the alternative, text-based representation of the information contained in this drawing. To remove an alternative, text-based representation from this drawing, set this property to null. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| CustomerData | Gets or sets the customer defined data. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| DrawingType | Gets the type of the drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| Hidden | Gets or sets a value indicating whether this drawing is hidden. Drawing is automatically hidden if any of its ancestor GroupShape is hidden. Default value is false. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| Layout | Gets or sets the location, size and transformations (flipping and rotation) of the bounding box enclosing this drawing. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| Locks | Gets or sets the locking settings for this drawing. These settings inform the application about specific drawing properties that have been previously locked and thus should not be changed by the user when viewing a drawing in an application. Default value is None. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| Name | Gets or sets the name of this drawing. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| Parent | Gets the parent group or null if drawing is not grouped. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| Placeholder | Gets the placeholder settings for this drawing if the drawing is a placeholder; otherwise, null. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| Slide | Gets the slide associated with this drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| TextContent | Gets the text content of the current Drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
Inherited Methods
| BringForward() | Brings this drawing forward so that it is hidden by fewer drawings that are in front of it. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| BringForward(Drawing) | Brings this drawing forward so that is not hidden by the specified drawing and all other drawings behind the specified drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| BringToFront() | Brings this drawing in front of all other drawings so that no part of it is hidden behind another drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| FormatDrawing() | Formats this VisualDrawing to its default size so it can be exported to PDF, XPS, image, or be printed. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| FormatDrawing(System.Double, System.Double, LengthUnit) | Formats this VisualDrawing to specified size so it can be exported to PDF, XPS, image, or be printed. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| FormatDrawing(System.Double, System.Double, LengthUnit, PaginatorOptions) | Formats this VisualDrawing to specified size so it can be exported to PDF, XPS, image, or be printed. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| FormatDrawing(PaginatorOptions) | Formats this VisualDrawing to its default size so it can be exported to PDF, XPS, image, or be printed. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |
| SendBackward() | Sends this drawing backward so that it is hidden by more drawings that are in front of it. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| SendBackward(Drawing) | Sends this drawing backward so that is hidden by the specified drawing and all other drawings in front of the specified drawing. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| SendToBack() | Sends this drawing behind all other drawings. (Inherited from Drawing) |
| ToString() | Returns a System.String that represents this VisualDrawing instance. (Inherited from VisualDrawing) |