Strange connector behavior

[Thomas Winkel]

Hi,

please have a look at the attached demo.
When I drag and drop the connector to a connection point of the square shape everything is OK.
But when I do the same with pressed Ctrl button (i.e. copy the connector) the other end of the connector automatically connects to the frame.

Can anybody explain this behavior?
What can I do to fix this?

Regards,
Thomas

[Yacine]

Would it be a problem if you put the frame on a background page?

[Thomas Winkel]

Good idea, should be possible.
The issue with the frame comes from a colleague who is using my shapes (the frame comes from him).
I would like to understand where this behavior comes from.
Maybe other colleagues have other problems related to this issue...

Any idea?

[9rey]

Open ShapeSheet of your frame. You need to set a property "GlueType" of "Glue Info" section to "8" - visGlueTypeNoWalkingTo

[Thomas Winkel]

That's it.
Many thanks, 9rey!

I should really activate email notification next time...

[novski]

Hi
i wold like to reactivate this Topic to go deeper.
Can somebody describe what the differencies between the GlueType=1,2,4,8 are?
Thanks a lot
Novski

@Thomas, Thanks for the relink.

[Surrogate]

Value	Description	Automation constant
&H0	Default. Allow dynamic glue for the dynamic connector only; otherwise, use static glue.	visGlueTypeDefault
&H1	Allow dynamic glue.	Obsolete in Visio 2002
&H2	Allow dynamic glue.	visGlueTypeWalking
&H4	Do not allow dynamic glue.	visGlueTypeNoWalking
&H8	Do not allow this 2-D shape to be connected to with dynamic glue.	visGlueTypeNoWalkingTo

[novski]

Hi surrogate, Thanks for the fast reply!
I also found that, but i don't understand the difference between NoWalking and NoWalkingTo and also the term "dynamic glue" i don't understand...

does somebody have a sample of what it means?

Thanks
Novski