Visio 2003: Drag Bitmap feature is not working

[Pat Molloy]

My copy of Visio 2003 used to display a "phantom" version of the shape while
I was moving that shape from one location on a drawing to another. Now, for
some reason, it does not; all I see is the bounding box until I finish moving
the shape to its new location, and then the complete shape re-appears. This
feature is known as "drag bitmap" in Visio-speak.

This condition occurs with any object, even simple ones that are not
"groups" of multiple objects.

This is not the "Live Dynamics" feature, which is working properly. When I
rotate or re-size an object, I see that object all the way through that
process.

I have searched the Windows registry, and have noted that the setting for
"DragBitmap" was 0. I changed it to "1", but this did not change anything.

Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Thanks in advance.

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

Tools/Options/View tab/Display options/check 'Smooth Drawing'.


Help file from 2007:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP012315501033.aspx



Best Regards,

Aaron Rykhus, Visio Support
Microsoft Corporation

 

[Pat Molloy]

Thanks Aaron, but that didn't solve it. That feature was already checked. I
un-checked it to see what the difference would be, and the only thing I
noticed was that the bounding box is dashed when the "Smooth Drawing"
checkbox is checked, and solid when it is not. And, while we're in that
section of the View tab, checking/un-checking "Higher quality shape display"
doesn't have an effect on it, either.

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

Interesting, at first I didn't catch 2003 in the subject of your posting so
I was testing this in Visio 2007 SP1 on Vista SP1 and didn't have the
problem. Now I tried in Visio 2003 SP3 fully patched on Windows XP SP2 and
see that the problem happens on a New Drawing even when 'Smooth Drawing'
checked. Even ran a Detect and Repair. Same problem.

Visio 2002 does the same thing as 2003 so I'm surprised this worked in
2003. I've personally never noticed.

What build of Visio 2003 are you on (in Visio under Help menu/About
Microsoft Office Visio -- it's the 11.xxxx.yyyy number).




Best Regards,

Aaron Rykhus, Visio Support
Microsoft Corporation

 

[Paul Herber]

Thanks Aaron, but that didn't solve it. That feature was already checked. I
un-checked it to see what the difference would be, and the only thing I
noticed was that the bounding box is dashed when the "Smooth Drawing"
checkbox is checked, and solid when it is not. And, while we're in that
section of the View tab, checking/un-checking "Higher quality shape display"
doesn't have an effect on it, either.

It could be an artifact of your video card.
Go to the Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced ->
Troubleshoot
and set the hardware accelleration to 0.

 

[Pat Molloy]

Thanks Paul, but it didn't help.

 

[Pat Molloy]

The build number is 11.8207.8202. SP3.