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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait"
orientation. That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd http://www.electronics-packages.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
On Jul 10, 5:22*am, Paul Herber
wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. *That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote: On Jul 10, 5:22*am, Paul Herber wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. *That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? Where do you get the connector from? Which stencil, which template? Yellow control handles are defined in the Controls section in the shape's shapesheet. A control handle can be connected to almost anything to allow it to be moved around with the mouse. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd http://www.electronics-packages.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
On Jul 10, 5:48*pm, Paul Herber
wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: On Jul 10, 5:22*am, Paul Herber wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. *That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? *The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. *This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. *Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? Where do you get the connector from? Which stencil, which template? Yellow control handles are defined in the Controls section in the shape's shapesheet. A control handle can be connected to almost anything to allow it to be moved around with the mouse. It's quite a basic interconnection of ovals using straight lines, center-to-center (at any angle, depending on the relative positions of the ovals connected). I create a new *blank* drawing, go to File- PageSetup-LayoutAndRouting-Routing-Style-CenterToCenter. Then open the stencil BlockDiagram-Blocks. Drag 2 ovals onto the drawing. Click on the connector tool and draw a line between the ovals in a Dynamic Glue manner. The connecting line ignores the Connection Points on the ovals, and contacts the ovals at the nearest points on their perimeters. |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
Hi Paul --
The yellow control handle that Paul H. is referring too ought to be right in the center of your text, small diamond. If you grab it, the text will follow. Also, on the menu bar, the text tool ought to have an option to do text block (or you can go to customize menu bar). The text block tool will give the the rotation handle and allow you to freely rotate the text. Note, once you grab the rotation handle, if you scroll the mouse away from the text, you can get finer angular rotations. Hope this helps. Wapperdude "Paul" wrote: On Jul 10, 5:48 pm, Paul Herber wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: On Jul 10, 5:22 am, Paul Herber wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? Where do you get the connector from? Which stencil, which template? Yellow control handles are defined in the Controls section in the shape's shapesheet. A control handle can be connected to almost anything to allow it to be moved around with the mouse. It's quite a basic interconnection of ovals using straight lines, center-to-center (at any angle, depending on the relative positions of the ovals connected). I create a new *blank* drawing, go to File- PageSetup-LayoutAndRouting-Routing-Style-CenterToCenter. Then open the stencil BlockDiagram-Blocks. Drag 2 ovals onto the drawing. Click on the connector tool and draw a line between the ovals in a Dynamic Glue manner. The connecting line ignores the Connection Points on the ovals, and contacts the ovals at the nearest points on their perimeters. |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
Paul --
You can make the text angle track the the dynamic connector by changing the shape sheet entry that Paul H refers to: instead of a numerical value, enter this formula: ATAN2((Geometry1.Y2-Geometry1.Y1),(Geometry1.X2-Geometry1.X1)). Of course, you need to do this to each dynamic connector. Hope you're not labelling too many of them. Hope this helps even more. Wapperdude. "WapperDude" wrote: Hi Paul -- The yellow control handle that Paul H. is referring too ought to be right in the center of your text, small diamond. If you grab it, the text will follow. Also, on the menu bar, the text tool ought to have an option to do text block (or you can go to customize menu bar). The text block tool will give the the rotation handle and allow you to freely rotate the text. Note, once you grab the rotation handle, if you scroll the mouse away from the text, you can get finer angular rotations. Hope this helps. Wapperdude "Paul" wrote: On Jul 10, 5:48 pm, Paul Herber wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: On Jul 10, 5:22 am, Paul Herber wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? Where do you get the connector from? Which stencil, which template? Yellow control handles are defined in the Controls section in the shape's shapesheet. A control handle can be connected to almost anything to allow it to be moved around with the mouse. It's quite a basic interconnection of ovals using straight lines, center-to-center (at any angle, depending on the relative positions of the ovals connected). I create a new *blank* drawing, go to File- PageSetup-LayoutAndRouting-Routing-Style-CenterToCenter. Then open the stencil BlockDiagram-Blocks. Drag 2 ovals onto the drawing. Click on the connector tool and draw a line between the ovals in a Dynamic Glue manner. The connecting line ignores the Connection Points on the ovals, and contacts the ovals at the nearest points on their perimeters. |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
WrapperDude,
I think that did it. Mine’s is a bit different in that I have to use the text tool, have the connector label selected (which selects the text for overwriting or formatting), then press Escape so that the text block is selected instead. Thanks! On Jul 13, 11:49 pm, WapperDude wrote: Hi Paul -- The yellow control handle that Paul H. is referring too ought to be right in the center of your text, small diamond. If you grab it, the text will follow. Also, on the menu bar, the text tool ought to have an option to do text block (or you can go to customize menu bar). The text block tool will give the the rotation handle and allow you to freely rotate the text. Note, once you grab the rotation handle, if you scroll the mouse away from the text, you can get finer angular rotations. Hope this helps. Wapperdude |
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Position/orientate connection labels along connector line
On Jul 14, 12:07*am, WapperDude
wrote: Paul -- You can make the text angle track the the dynamic connector by changing the shape sheet entry that Paul H refers to: *instead of a numerical value, enter this formula: * ATAN2((Geometry1.Y2-Geometry1.Y1),(Geometry1.X2-Geometry1.X1)). *Of course, you need to do this to each dynamic connector. *Hope you're not labelling too many of them. Hope this helps even more. Wapperdude. "WapperDude" wrote: Hi Paul -- The yellow control handle that Paul H. is referring too ought to be right in the center of your text, small diamond. *If you grab it, the text will follow. *Also, on the menu bar, the text tool ought to have an option to do text block (or you can go to customize menu bar). *The text block tool will give the the rotation handle and allow you to freely rotate the text. *Note, once you grab the rotation handle, if you scroll the mouse away from the text, you can get finer angular rotations. Hope this helps. Wapperdude "Paul" wrote: On Jul 10, 5:48 pm, Paul Herber wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: On Jul 10, 5:22 am, Paul Herber wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:22:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: The connector lines have text that always have a "portrait" orientation. *That is, letters upright, reading from left to right. This is regardless of the orientation of the line (I have center-to- center connectors, straight lines rather than rectilinear). Can I have the text labels oriented so that the text reads along the connector line rather than horizontally (left to right)? menu Window - Show Shapesheet (Visio 2007 Show Shapedata) I guess there is no GUI way to do this? *The diagram change alot, and quickly... scroll down to near the botton to the Text Transform section and change the TxtAngle cell, try 90deg, 180 deg, 270 deg etc Furthermore, can I position the label at an arbitrary position along the connection line? There is a yellow control handle, drag this and the text will follow. I don't have yellow handles on my text labels for my connectors. *This is for striaght-line center-to-center connectors. *Is there a switch in Visio 2000 to activate visibility of the handle? Where do you get the connector from? Which stencil, which template? Yellow control handles are defined in the Controls section in the shape's shapesheet. A control handle can be connected to almost anything to allow it to be moved around with the mouse. It's quite a basic interconnection of ovals using straight lines, center-to-center (at any angle, depending on the relative positions of the ovals connected). *I create a new *blank* drawing, go to File- PageSetup-LayoutAndRouting-Routing-Style-CenterToCenter. *Then open the stencil BlockDiagram-Blocks. *Drag 2 ovals onto the drawing. *Click on the connector tool and draw a line between the ovals in a Dynamic Glue manner. *The connecting line ignores the Connection Points on the ovals, and contacts the ovals at the nearest points on their perimeters.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hmmm....that might not be so practical. When I have some time, I'll have to figure out scripting and try to do it automagically. Thanks again! |
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