Button to hide all Shapes with a special Property set?

[VisDom]

Hi all.

I have a process+systems chart with two swimlanes: 1-process and 2-systems. I want to create a button to hide the systems lane and the system shapes. Every shape has a Data-field "isLayer" with values {process, system} - so rather process or a system. I want my Button to hide all shapes with the proerty "isLayer" = System.

I  have basically two problems:
1) How to iterrate through all shapes of my Page
2) How to set them invisible according to the Property-Value

VisDom

[Surrogate]

1) How to iterrate through all shapes of my Page
2) How to set them invisible according to the Property-Value

i think you dont need do iterrate all shapes (if all you shapes have property 'isLayer').
You can add special cell in shapesheet which change shape's layer depends its  'isLayer" property's value.
In this thread i describe solution for case with many layers on page

[VisDom]

Hi Surrogate,

I am not sure I understand your answer correctly. I want to use a Button to hide all shapes in the "system" swimlane. Does your solution work with a button?

Every shape has an attribute with a value "process" (stands for process shape) or "system" (stands for system shape)


VisDom

[Surrogate]

I am not sure I understand your answer correctly. I want to use a Button to hide all shapes in the "system" swimlane. Does your solution work with a button?

No, my solution haven't button !

[wapperdude]

See this...uses a "button":  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=5740.msg22885#msg22885

Wapperdude