Comments on: Storyboard Frame Shape http://www.visguy.com/2009/11/22/storyboard-frame-visio-shape/ Smart graphics for visual people. Visio Guy offers Microsoft Visio shapes, stencils, templates, code, power user tips and programming advice and ShapeSheet examples for creating Visio SmartShapes. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:52:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Visio Guy http://www.visguy.com/2009/11/22/storyboard-frame-visio-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-23803 Visio Guy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:03 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/?p=4736#comment-23803 Hi Harry, It would be possible to create something like that, but would require a bunch of code to turn things on and off. I guess we could make a bunch of layers and hook their visibility to the control handle position...hey I just got an idea for an article. But I think this is starting to get into Flash/Silverlight territory. I think sometimes it is nice that Visio doesn't hide "too much" info from the user. That way you can print it all out and show people, write on it, etc. A lot of these online interactive data visualizations are cool, but you can't really print out an overview of all the data. You have to mouse-over something and see what pops up, and even printing out one element of data gets complicated. I'm still philosophizing in my own head about all this and what makes sense... Hi Harry,

It would be possible to create something like that, but would require a bunch of code to turn things on and off.

I guess we could make a bunch of layers and hook their visibility to the control handle position…hey I just got an idea for an article.

But I think this is starting to get into Flash/Silverlight territory. I think sometimes it is nice that Visio doesn’t hide “too much” info from the user. That way you can print it all out and show people, write on it, etc.

A lot of these online interactive data visualizations are cool, but you can’t really print out an overview of all the data. You have to mouse-over something and see what pops up, and even printing out one element of data gets complicated.

I’m still philosophizing in my own head about all this and what makes sense…

]]> By: Harry Miller http://www.visguy.com/2009/11/22/storyboard-frame-visio-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-23793 Harry Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:47 +0000 http://www.visguy.com/?p=4736#comment-23793 I don't suppose it would be possible to let the diagram user drag the callout handle, and refresh the picture at intervals showing changing effects over time? It could be cool to have an adjustable number of refreshes across the space of the frame, like 2 to 8, and then load images at the trigger points. Of course, I'm still stuck with the question why, but I've seen a couple of those sorts of animated timelines lately, using things like growing and shrinking dots on a map representing unemployment over time, and like that. Or instead of the user sliding, maybe right-click options or buttons on the side of the frame. And thanks for the mention! :-) I don’t suppose it would be possible to let the diagram user drag the callout handle, and refresh the picture at intervals showing changing effects over time? It could be cool to have an adjustable number of refreshes across the space of the frame, like 2 to 8, and then load images at the trigger points.

Of course, I’m still stuck with the question why, but I’ve seen a couple of those sorts of animated timelines lately, using things like growing and shrinking dots on a map representing unemployment over time, and like that.

Or instead of the user sliding, maybe right-click options or buttons on the side of the frame. And thanks for the mention! :-)

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