Getting a shape's connectors

[jarlen]

I have a macro that creates a range of shapes from an excel sheet, and
inter-connects them using the autoconnect command.
After all the connections have been made I need a way to access all of the
connectors related to a shape, is there anyway to do this? The shape.connect
and shape.connects doesn't seem to give me anything, or maybe I'm just using
them the wrong way. Any hints?

 

[John Goldsmith \(Visio MVP\)]

Hello Jarlen,

Have you come across this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa201774(office.10).aspx

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[jarlen]

That makes it a bit clearer, I thought the connects collection were just a
bigger collection containing fromConnects and some more.
Also I expected a connection to be the actual shape (line) connection two
larger shapes, but it's actually the connection between the shape itself, and
the line pointing to a new shape. Thanks

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Yes there is a bit of gymnastics to do. Though it looks line Shape A is
conected to Shape B. Shape A is connected to connector shape C, which is the
connected to Shape B. You can get Shape C from A's FromConnects collection
and then use Shape C's Connects collection to get Shape B. Remember Shape A
will also be in C's Connect collection.

John... Visio MVP