Locking 2-d shapes together

[Charles Wentworth]

I have a number of shapes that I want to lock to one end of other shapes on
the page. For multiple reasons, I can't use connectors or have these shapes
be 1-D shapes. It's not so tough to lock the left end of shape B to the
right end of shape A in a general sense by manipulating pinx. But often
these shapes are subshapes of subshapes that I want to lock to subshapes of
subshapes in another group. Finding the magic to let shape B know where
shape A's pinx really is in this case seems to be beyond me.

I feel there is some answer hiding in Loctoloc or loctopar, but I can't
quite get it to work out. The explanation of what these are and how they
work just isn't clicking with me and none of my experiments have worked
consistently. I'm more than happy to include an "Absolute position" for each
shape in a scratch or user cell that maintains its absolute position on the
page, but I can't quite get that to translate into something usable for the
second shape, either.

This probably isn't clear, but if someone could offer suggestions or even
more straightforward explanations of loctoloc, etc., it would be greatly
appreciated.

Charles

 

[JuneTheSecond]

If a shape has outword connection points, it glues as if it were 1-D shape.
You might check help documents or
http://office.microsoft.com/tr-tr/assistance/HP850522791033.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...L/DVS_11_Arranging_Shapes_in_Drawings_457.asp

 

[Charles Wentworth]

Sorry for the delayed response.

Connectors come loose too easily to be useful for what I'm doing, but your
comment sent me back to look at them again. The automatic changes they make
to the Pinx gave me the clue to what I was doing wrong. So you pointed me in
the right direction. Many thanks.

Charles