Looping through 'stacked' shapes

[Mac]

Hello all,
assume e.g. 20 shapes which are visually placed one on top of the other, so
that on your drawing page only the topmost shape is visible. Now, I want my
code to loop through all the shapes that are stacked there... I believe I
should be able to achieve this using their respective coordinates; is that
correct or is there a better way? Thank you.

 

[JuneTheSecond]

Hi,

Do you mean z-order?
Z-oreder is represented by Shape.Index.

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[Mac]

What I mean is this - after one clicks on the topmost shape, the code goes
like this: obtain the current Selection object, store its x-y coords and then
iterate through all shapes on the drawing page which are located within the
same x-y cords but have different Index value ( visually this means - they
can't be seen as they are hidden "under" the topmost shape)...

 

[Dieter Sternberg]

Have a look at SpatialSearch with the flag visSpatialFrontToBack

Regards
Dieter

 

[AlEdlund]

SpatialNeighbors returns a selection (a list) of shapes that meet your x,y
requirments. Then you can search the list (a lot faster) based on the shape
index.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa197210(office.11).aspx

al

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Hello all,
assume e.g. 20 shapes which are visually placed one on top of the other,
so
that on your drawing page only the topmost shape is visible. Now, I want
my
code to loop through all the shapes that are stacked there... I believe I
should be able to achieve this using their respective coordinates; is that
correct or is there a better way? Thank you.

Can you give us more details of what you are trying to achieve?

SpatialNeighbors will let you know who is nearby. Z-order will tell you who
is in front, but is rhat what you really need? It is possible to create a
single shape, that depending on a custom property can alter its' appearance.
No code is required, it is all done within the shapesheet.

John... Visio MVP