Controls.Textposition moved uncontrollable

[Anders]

Hi!

We experiencing a serious problem in our project. In a flowsheet we are
generating we are using dynamic connectors with a field displayed at the
Controls.Textposition.

When the connectors are automatically placed in the drawing the textposition
can be moved uncontrollable by Visio.

We have found the root of our problem (we think), but we don't know how to
solve it. The problem is when the width och the connector is less than 5 mm.
Visio calculates the width as GUARD(EndX - BeginX), but when this num,ber is
less than 5 mm it becomes GUARD(5 mm). And it is this restriction that makes
the Controls.Textposition jump around uncontrollably.

Example (- is line, x is textposition):

We have drawn a dynamic connector with a width less than 5 mm:


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When the width of the dynamic connector is changed to 6 mm the textposition
is placed above the dynamic connector:

x


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Any suggestion on how to disable this "feature"?

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi!

We experiencing a serious problem in our project. In a flowsheet we are
generating we are using dynamic connectors with a field displayed at the
Controls.Textposition.

What is this Controls.Textposition? It isn't an item in a standard
shape.

We have found the root of our problem (we think), but we don't know how to
solve it. The problem is when the width och the connector is less than 5 mm.
Visio calculates the width as GUARD(EndX - BeginX), but when this num,ber is
less than 5 mm it becomes GUARD(5 mm). And it is this restriction that makes
the Controls.Textposition jump around uncontrollably.

Is this really the standard dynamic connector or someone else's shape?
Sounds like something else is controlling the dynamics of the
connector.

 

[Anders]

This is the standard dynamic connector

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2006/09/26/771488.aspx