Visio blinking / flashing shapes?

[Michael Pollard]

We want to use Visio 2003 as a help desk tool. We want to have shapes blink
under certain circumstances, such when a computer has been reported as having
a problem.

I have found how to change shape properties using VBA, but I have found
nothing about effects as are available in Word and HTML. In fact, even color
changes made on the ShapeSheet do not take effect on the drawing; other
changes do (size, orientation), but not color. I can change the color
manually and see the effect on the ShapeSheet (FillForegnd), but changing
FillForegnd does not alter the drawing.

Any ideas?

 

[JuneTheSecond]

An alternative idea might be changing colours cyclicly using timer functions
in windows API.

 

[Gilgil0886]

The reason I can think about is that the shape whose color you are
trying to change, is actually a group. This is where manual visio and
visio Automation act differently. If you want the color change to
affect all sub-shapes, you need to iterate all sub and sub-sub (and
sub-sub-sub etc.) shapes.

 

[OneSHOT]

Try setting the fill pattern first (it is more than likely set to 1 which is
no fill)