Visio Guy

Hi, again!

You really use Dynamic grid or/and Drawing aids?
I am usually disable these options...

Hi Again,

> which version of Visio?
  - Microsoft® Visio® Plan 2 MSO (Version 2308 Build 16.0.16731.20542) 64-bit
> do you have gluing enabled for geometry shapes?
  - Not sure how to do this for "geometry shapes"? Also google it. could not find specific topic.
> do the shapes have glue points?
  - Yes, If i use the "Line" it is working without problem.
> both inny and outy? ...
  - This i did not understand.

Snap function is working perfectly and shapes snaps exactly where they should snap. but not gluing.

P.S. I have fixed the access to the screenshot. (i think)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vsIkSFsphdXqe-sTXKcAqs_6PIs4XSUK/view?usp=drive_link

Quote from: wapperdude on April 15, 2024, 03:10:01 PM@Yacine:  shop owner thinks my crystal ball may not be repairable.  How about you?

Maybe it's time for a new approach! Forget the crystal ball, I'm channeling the future from now on. Ask me anything!

Quote from: Visio Guy on April 14, 2024, 04:38:04 PMI have a "jammer" tool that I have long thought might be used for distributing smart techniques via text. This fits in with this discussion, to some extent.

That definitely sounds interesting to quick and easy modify existing shapes.
Here I would like to create an quick & easy way to search & insert shapes from the community without the need to download and open a stencil before.
Maybe such a community shape server could be hosted here next to the forum.
Every Visguy user would be able to contribute, either by uploading stencils, or by drag & drop from the page into the addin.
The usability is important. If it's not quick & easy nobody will use it.

@Nikolay:
Thanks for your input.
It was a simple rectangle on the same diagram.
I will check that again later this week and create a minimal example.

Funny thing.  On way to repair shop I bumped into Yacine as he was leaving.  We chatted for awhile...

> which version of Visio?
> do you have gluing enabled for geometry shapes?
> do the shapes have glue points? 
> both inny and outy?  An inny point likes to glue to an outy.  Inny = type 0, outy = 1. For example, place inny pts on left side, outy pts on right side (or visa versa).  When you grab shape to drag it, place mouse near conn pt of interest as Visio will focus on pt nearest to where mouse grabs the shape.  Drag shape such that an inny aligns to an outy.

@Yacine:  shop owner thinks my crystal ball may not be repairable.  How about you?

You are absolutely right
I have selected everything - and i cannot glue 2 rectangles together.
I am trying all glue options one by one, and then all together. still nothing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vsIkSFsphdXqe-sTXKcAqs_6PIs4XSUK/view?usp=drive_link

Crystal ball @ repair service, sorry. 

I got in a strange situation.
I cannot glue nothing.... I have a simple rectangle and i cannot glue it to anything. What did i do wrong?

Thanks Both,
I will try provided direction.

One quesiton:
"Since the widths represent time, why not use timeline shapes.  As I recall, these can be ganged together."
Since i am representing seconds, by some reason i cannot adjust it to so small steps.

@Surrogate IMHO that does not matter. If you support an application, you support it; otherwise you don't.
It's been 10 years already since the App store has been added to the other office applications.

@Thomas - my assumption is that the issue with the color may be related to themes somehow. Maybe you should save not "Shapes" but "Shapes Xml" (or whatever there is) somehow (there are multiple variations of the data stream you can get from a shape). I.e. does the problem with the color happen if you copy/paste on the same diagram? If not, then it's diagram settings probably. Like, in the shape serialized you have a refernece to theme like "THEMECOLOR()" and then ween deserizalized, that resolves to the color of the current theme and not to the one that was serialized.