8 - Understanding the object model

In Corel DESIGNER and CorelDRAW, the Application object is the root of all other objects and is used if no other root object is specified.

Documents, pages, layers, shapes, and filters are among the most important objects in the Corel DESIGNER and CorelDRAW object models. Understanding these objects — and their relationships to one another — is the key to understanding the CorelDRAW and Corel DESIGNER object model.

In this section

This section contains the following topics:

• Understanding the object-model hierarchy
• Working with the Application object
• Working with documents
• Working with pages
• Working with layers
• Working with shapes
• Working with import filters and export filters
• Arranging open documents

All code examples in this section are written in VBA.

For a visual representation of the object model, please see the object-model diagram CorelDRAW Object Model Diagram.pdf.