Can I expand a shape to get info on demand, similar to screen tip.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:39:05 -0800, Lelon
wrote:

By Comment Text Box, I mean the Comment box you get from the Insert Menu.

Ah-ha! Problem found. They are not comment boxes. They might be called
comment boxes but they are used for users to write Post-It type notes
on a drawing - sort of "Make this box yellow and 3cm larger", the
document can be passed around the company for everyone to add there 2
escudos.
But, yes, those boxes cannot be moved. It's late here, unless anyone
else comes back to you in the meantime I'll have a look tomorrow.



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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:39:05 -0800, Lelon
wrote:

By Comment Text Box, I mean the Comment box you get from the Insert Menu.
The problem with all of the callout text shapes (or other text shapes) for
my purpose is that they don't collapse the way a Comment box does (or at
least I haven't been able to find one that does). I was hoping to find a
shape that would expand and collapse on a mouse click so you can view the
information then hide it, the way you can with a Comment. The Comment does
what I want in this case EXCEPT that you can't select it as part of a group
of shapes so that it moves with them.

Following on from my previous about Comments, they belong to the page
rather than any shape. However, you can set the Comment's X and Y
coordinates to be linked to a particular shape.
So, if you have a Process shape then you can enter the shape's name
and reference to its PinX and PinY coordinates.
hence, yes you can achieve exactly what you want with these Comment,
not what they were designed for, but....
Nice.


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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/