Text output popup box

Paul Herber · September 18, 2008, 10:07:05 AM

On the newsgroup "microsoft.public.visio.general" a few weeks ago a user asked about how to pop up a dialog box showing some text when a Visio shape is double-clicked.

<updated by the following posting>

Paul Herber · January 31, 2012, 12:40:13 AM

I've now updated this addon to V1.3, it is now written in Free Pascal/Lazarus, the installer was created using warSetup.
None of the installation instructions from the previous postings are required, just run the .msi file; and the example includes outputting a shape variable to the dialog box. Hope someone finds it useful. Oh, yes, it's free.

http://www.sandrila.co.uk/articles/visio-articles/output-dialog/

<deleted all the older stuff as it is now out of date>

Paul Herber · February 01, 2012, 11:23:38 PM

... and now following a suggestion from a user (thanks) there is now a different version that uses a tool window rather than the usual dialog window. Hope it's useful to someone. Same URL as above.

Paul Herber · December 17, 2013, 10:00:16 AM

These two dialogs have just been updated to allow new lines to be inserted into the displayed text by using a \r within the text string.
Hope this is useful to someone.

Yacine · December 17, 2013, 05:29:05 PM

Very useful and nice integration.
Thx

Paul Herber · December 18, 2013, 01:13:04 PM

Paul Herber · July 20, 2018, 01:18:30 PM

These two items have now been updated to make them work with 64-bit as well as 32-bit Visio, and added application icons and other tidy ups.
http://www.paulherber.co.uk/articles/visio-articles/output-dialog/
I hope these are useful.