Rack diagram, "U sizes" text and empty text box.

[wendyp]

We're currently drawing our own shapes to use on the rack diagram and
have a few problems. (I'm afraid there's a bit of a shopping list
here... )

The Microsoft examples automatically put the "2U", "3U" etc to the left
side. Using Custom properties, we've got "2", "3" etc to appear in the
correct place on the left and at the correct size. How do we get the
units as well?

If you right-click on the Microsoft examples, "Hide U sizes" is at the
top of the menu. Clicking it makes the U size text to the left
disappear. We'd very much like to be able to do that, but don't have a
clue where to start.

And finally, if you click on the Microsoft examples, an empty text box
appears on the right. Could anyone tell us how to do this?

Thanks very much,

Wendy

 

[Al Edlund]

The rack 'diagram' uses a custom add-in supplied by microsoft, so at least
part of it has to be done with code. If you open the shape sheet of one of
the racks you will see user defined cells, and in the action section some
calls to RUNADDON. This is where the nuts and bolts of the user interface is
for the code.
Have fun,
Al