Introduction

In this post we will be looking at how to modify a Macro / Script in CorelDRAW. Beginning in CorelDRAW 2019 Macros were renamed to Scripts. I have been using CorelDRAW a long time, so I still refer to them as Macros. Just know that depending on your version of CorelDRAW it may use the term Macro or in the newer versions it will use the term Script. The goal of this post is to give you a nudge to try and make an improvement to your favorite macro yourself.

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Introduction

Continuing with the Object Model changes I have created an HTML document that shows all the changes between VGCore (17.0) and CorelDRAW (16.4). The text was to long to post here so I have linked to a .zip file with the full text.

Object Model Changes

When you open the document in your browser you will see a legend like this:

Legend:

• Not changed
• Added
• Removed

As you can see anything in blue is new for X7 and anything...

Introduction

In the previous blog post we showed an example of a custom WPF control that was hosted in the UI of CorelDRAW. In this post we are going to take a Custom Web Docker that Hendrik had provided as an example and rewrite it as a Custom WPF .NET Docker. If you have never made a custom docker his article is a wonderful place to start. You may find it here: Custom add-ons and dockers in CorelDRAW

WPF User Control Library

Once again I will be using...

Introduction

With CorelDRAW X6 you can now create custom .NET controls that can be hosted in either a custom docker or the UI itself, including toolbars and menus. I will be doing a few posts on exactly how this is done. For this post we will build our own slider control that will change the line width of the selected shapes.

WPF User Control Library

I will be using Visual Studio 2010 Professional to create the custom control. Start a new project, Visual...

Introduction

The good news in most macros from previous versions of CorelDRAW should work great. The one exception to this are macros that use WinAPI calls. All previous macros that use WinAPI calls will need to be updated for CorelDRAW X6 (64-bit). This is only for the 64-bit version, if you are using the 32-bit version of CorelDRAW, even on a 64-bit version of Windows everything should run as expected.

Why the Change

VBA has used the Long data type...