Text.UnusedFramesInLink property - Developer Area

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Text.UnusedFramesInLink property

Gets the number of unused frames in the chain of linked text frames

Syntax:

Property Get UnusedFramesInLink() As Long

Remarks:

The UnusedFramesInLink property returns the total number of empty frames in a chain of linked paragraph-text frames.

Examples:

The following VBA example displays the total number of frames in the text chain and the number of empty (or unused) frames.

Sub Test()
  If ActiveShape Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "Nothing Selected"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  If ActiveShape.Type <> cdrTextShape Then
    MsgBox "Please select a text object"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  If ActiveShape.Text.Type <> cdrParagraphText And ActiveShape.Text.Type <> cdrParagraphFittedText Then
    MsgBox "Please select a paragraph text object"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  MsgBox "The number of frames in the text chain is: " & _
    ActiveShape.Text.FramesInLink & vbCr & _
    "Unused frames: " & ActiveShape.Text.UnusedFramesInLink
End Sub

Version Information:

CorelDRAW:	X7.4, X7, X7.6, X8, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019.2, 2020, 2021, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25
Corel DESIGNER:	X7, 2017.1, 20.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25