Resizing Shape

[Gregory Jackson]

I have created several of my own shapes in Visio and I wanted to know just a couple of things. When I grab a corner connection point and start to decrease the size of my newly created object the line thickness  and text/font size  does not decrease in size as well. Thus I have to manually go and select each line or group and change the lines and text. It the a shapesheet formula I can create to do this automatic?  Secondly how do I give my newly created object a properties value (i.e. when I right click on an item that is in a default stencil it has a properties selection at the very bottom of the menu appears and when I select it the shape date window appears.

I have given my item property values using the shapesheet  data.

Thanks,

Greg

[wapperdude]

Well, for starters, most of this can be done in the shapesheet.  Check out this link. 
I believe everything still applies:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa245244(v=office.10).aspx, Developing Microsoft Visio Solutions. 

Alternatively, download the SDK, it is full of information, examples, etc. 

Also, there is this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2006/08/11/694681.aspx, Sizing Text with Shapes

To see this in action, check out this entry:  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=962.0, Drawing Scale Symbol: a smartshape

For line widths that scale, I believe the 1st link has info.  Basically, in the Line Format section, for LineWeight, you would make an equation that uses some scale factor * width, e.g., (0.72 pt)*2*Width

HTH
Wapperdude

[Gregory Jackson]

Thanks greatly appreciate it.. Text is working great, still working on line but this help a great deal.

[Gregory Jackson]

Got it all working now lines and text both resizing and scaling.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions..

This Site Rocks!!!!

~r