Connection Point User-interface

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hello All!

One of the posters in the Netherlands forum was asking; "What ever happened
to those nifty green arrows that allowed you to adjust the direction and
type of connection points?"

Well, they were sadly removed from the product, with Visio 2002 (I think)

Since I and many others have missed this feature, I've just developed a
simple tool that will help get some of that functionality back. Via VB code,
special "UI shapes" get placed on top of connection points in your shapes.
Then you can simply rotate the UI shapes, and right-click to change the
types.

The article and download are here:

http://www.wanderkind.com/visio/2006/10/connection-point-directions-types.html
http://www.wanderkind.com/visio/

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Hope you find this useful,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.wanderkind.com/visio

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.wanderkind.com/visio

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

I vaguely remember a conversation with some Visioites that mentioned that
the feature was removed because it was too close to someone elses design and
they were avoiding problems with copyright by removing it.

John... Visio MVP

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[Michel LAPLANE]

Yes this feature is not available to the end user from Visio 2002 and later.
BUT !!! it is always there for the crazy guy playing with the shapesheet.
Look at the line of the connection point section :

- Make a rectangle
- Create a connectionpoint on it.
- Duplicate the shape.
- Open the shape sheet of the first shape.
- Put 2 in the type/D cell (inward and outward type)
- Put the same value in the dir X/A and dir Y/B cell 25,4 mm for example
(the default value of Dir Y/B when you create a connectionpoint).

When you try to glue the second shape to the first the gluing occur at 45
degrees (The dir X and dir Y define the old UI vector).
I think it was better when we have a UI method. Perhaps in Visio 2008. You
can also add some VBA lines to enhance your shape with a right click menu
that fills the cells.

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Or just read the first post, and download my tool : )

The download gives you a UI for doing all of this!

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Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.wanderkind.com/visio

 

[Michel LAPLANE]

Interesting links

Or just read the first post, and download my tool : )

The download gives you a UI for doing all of this!

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Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.wanderkind.com/visio