Perimiter length calculation in Visio

[Pat]

In Visio 2002 the shape method shpobj.lengthiu gave the permiter length of
open or closed geometry. In Visio 2003 it simply returns a "0" for any open
geometry. Does anyone know of any workarounds to this or has any knowledge of
patches to fix this ?

Path length calculations using this function are very important in add-on
software that we develop. Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thank You,

Pat

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

This is a known bug in Visio 2003 that has not been fixed at the present
time. The workaround is to close the geometric path. It is possible to
make a geometry segment "hidden" by changing the Row Type for the geometry
row to Move To from Line To.

 

[Pat]

Thank You, Mark.

Pat

This is a known bug in Visio 2003 that has not been fixed at the present
time. The workaround is to close the geometric path. It is possible to
make a geometry segment "hidden" by changing the Row Type for the geometry
row to Move To from Line To.

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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