Stop the Drop Event when automating diagram creation

[goldnhue]

I have automated drawing a Visio flow diagram by importing from a text/Excel file.  However, I have an EventDrop pop-up dialog on the Master objects that I can't seem to remove when dropping the objects on the page during automation.  This is what I'm doing:

First I try to remove the EventDrop from the Master Stencil objects:
     Set celobj = shpObj.CellsSRC(Visio.visSectionObject, visRowEvent, visEvtCellDrop)
     celobj.FormulaForce = "="     ' The formula that exists here is the "=DOCMD(1312)"

Then I load each master into a variable:
     Set mstActivity = docFlowStencil.Masters.ItemU(zz)

Then I drop them on the page:
     Set shpNew = pg.Drop(mstActivity, x, y)

Lastly, I try to reset the EventDrop on the Master Stencil:
     Set celobj = shpObj.CellsSRC(Visio.visSectionObject, visRowEvent, visEvtCellDrop)
     celobj.FormulaForce = "=DOCMD(1312)" 


The drawing and dropping works great, but the pop-up dialog still appears .. but then after running it several times, it works (i.e., clears the EventDrop)! ...   Then once cleared, I can't seem to reset the EventDrop back on the MASTER Stencil objects (... though I can set them fine on the objects on the drawing page).   Any suggestions? 

Thank you in advance!

[Paul Herber]

Perhaps not quite so elegant, how about setting a flag when you are in automation mode and then test this flag in the event handler and just exit if the flag is set.

[Visio Guy]

Automation isn't causing the pop-up, a ShapeSheet formula is.

Look up AlertResponse in the dev help. This is one way to get rid of the pop-ups.

DropMany might also work, but I'm not sure.

[aledlund]

If in fact you want to control events firing from places you don't wish to handle, visio already has a mechanism to help. Check out 'visio.application.isinscope" in the help facility.
al