Comments on: Making Bends in Visio’s Dynamic Connector

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:57:30 +0000

Thanks for chiming in Romie, always glad to provide helpful information to you folks out in Internet Land!

Chris

By: Romie

Romie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:08:26 +0000

Thank you for this info! Its been very helpful. Great straight-forward and well diagrammed explanation.

By: prasad

prasad — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:10:52 +0000

Can any one help me.

I need VBA code to get a connection point on the middle of dynamic connector.

Thanks
Prasad

By: Mayur Nayak

Mayur Nayak — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:14:36 +0000

Thanks a ton Visio Guy – I knew there had to be a way to make that elusive U-shaped bend! After spending an hour trying all sorts of Shift, Ctrl and Alt combinations with the mouse on the connectors (just not on the handles… d’oh) and poring over search results, I found this page just in time to save my sanity and some of my hair! And very well presented to boot!!

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:30:22 +0000

When you look at 2D shapes, analyze the FromConnects collection. These are usually the connectors glued to each shape.

If you have Visio 2010, it’s even easier: you can use shp.GluedShapes or even shp.ConnectedShapes.

ConnectedShapes bypasses the connectors and gets you the next 2D shapes that are connected (via connectors), so you don’t have to deal with the “middle man”.

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:16:34 +0000

Thx, again. But it won’t help. Any download is blocked from my company’s firewall. I checked from visio active help and could not find the real help for selecting the connectors based on the selected shapes using VB.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:31:48 +0000

Pretty easy to just Google/Bing for “Visio SDK”, but here you go anyway

Download the New Visio 2010 SDK!

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:09:09 +0000

Thx, Visio Guy. I am a beginner. Could u pls send me the link of the SDK documentation. Jing

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:59:25 +0000

Hi Jing,

Look for the Page.CreateSelection method in the SDK documentation. You can select shapes by master, and the connector is an instance of the “Dynamic connector” master.

By: Jing

Jing — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:59:55 +0000

I can select the 2D shapes based on their layer properties using VB comment. Now I want to collect the connectors which connected to these shapes. But don’t know how.
Could you help please.

By: Box293

Box293 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:45:51 +0000

Thank you, I wish this type of help was built into Visio.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:45:22 +0000

Julie, tell them all the cool connectors are doing it and possibly give them some alcohol.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:56:10 +0000

The handles are grayed out when I use the dynamic connector and won’t let me manipulate them. How do I get them green so I can manipulate them to bend where I want them to bend?
THanks,
Julie

By: Shane Owens

Shane Owens — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:14:34 +0000

Thank you so much for this tip. I use Visio regularly, but not enough to get real good at it. I’ve always been frustrated with trying to get connectors to do what I want and your tips have saved me all kinds of time now. Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make a task pleasant or painful.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:00 +0000

Good job, Paul!

Wasting time with Visio is time well-wasted!