Introduction

Corel has released a new version of CorelDRAW. Let's see what is new in the Object Model for 2021. The list is not that long so I will post the entire list here, no need to download a file this year.

Differences between VGCore (22.1) and VGCore (23.0)

Legend:

• Not changed
• Added
• Removed

Class ActiveView

Properties:

• Property UseMultipageView As Boolean

Methods:

• Function FindPageAtPoint(ByVal x As Double, ByVal

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Introduction

It has been a while since I have done one of these, but since Corel has not yet posted the changes to the Object Model for 2020 I thought I might as well.

I have created an HTML document that shows all the changes between VGCore (2019) and VGCore (2020). 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...

Introduction

In this post we will be looking at the changes in the XSLT files for X7. Please refer to the previous post Using XSLT files instead of VBA that discusses how to use these files to add a docker to the CorelDRAW UI automatically. Once you understand the changes you will be able to add your docker to the CorelDRAW X7 UI automatically.

Goodbye GMS File

Previously we needed a GMS file that we would call to open and close the docker. In CorelDRAW...

Introduction

CorelDRAW X7 released today, and with this new version comes several changes. I hopefully will be posting several articles in the next several days that discuss many of these changes. If you have questions or problems immediately feel free to contact me and hopefully we can work through them.

VBA Object Model Change

In this post I want to quickly discuss the big VBA Object Model change. The biggest change to the VBA Object model is that the...

Introduction

Now that we have a docker or macro we may wish to install the macro or docker on one or several machines. While you could use the manual approach a simple installer would be nice so that a user could just run it and have the files installed for them. In this post we will build a simple installer that will install the docker or macro.

Needed Software

To create the installer we are going to need a couple of pieces of software, the good news...