Re: Class Inherits

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I'll be there in less than four weeks and the conference is only a few days
later.

John... Visio MVP

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"Mark Nelson [MS]" <marknel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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More like six I believe.

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"John Marshall, MVP" <lancucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If we come over there in a few weeks, will you give us a presentation on
Visio as a development platform?

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"Mark Nelson [MS]" <marknel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perhaps you guys can stop by and tell me how you envision shape
inheritance while you are here.

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"Al Edlund" <aledlund@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sounds like a plan. Maybe play a little pool on monday evening.
al

"John Marshall, MVP" <lancucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Al. We should get together for coffee. How about we get out of
this cold weather and head over to the west coast for the Visio
Conference? ;-)

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"Al Edlund" <aledlund@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John,
Another scenario might include the use of property sets. For the work
I do I had to start with the construct of types/subtypes with
property sets as appropriate. When I drop the shape I add the
properties appropriate for what is being added to the drawing. Types
can include network active, network passive, media/connectivity,
wintel, unix, other.
Al
"John Marshall, MVP" <lancucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Inheritance would be a nice feature, but it is not available. When
thinking of Visio shapes you have to thing old school rather than
OO.

You will have to think in terms of generic shapes that have optional
features that can be displayed or hidden based on the information
provided. If you generate the diagrams from scratch, you can
determine the shape to be dropped as you read the information. If
you want to refresh the information and that may change the type of
shape, then you will have t consider using a multi shape as Mark
mentioned. (The multi shape is basically the same generic shape with
optional parts that I mentioned earlier.)

You do mention "different properties... as text beside it". This can
be done and if you want to expand to graphical indicators, the
feature you should be looking at is Data Graphics. Take a look at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468596.aspx

Hey Mark, how about considering changing the shape model to allow
shapes to inherit from other shapes?

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<johan.svallbring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your response.

The data I wanna draw is a number of probes that are connected to
the
a set of routers that are connected to a set of servers. The
information regarding what I wanna draw is stored in a database,
among
with other properties(i.e, IP, interface, etc)

To explain what I wanna do a bit further. I want make a sort of a
list
with objects from a class, for the diffrent types of nodes. That is
one list with all the probes, one for the routers and one for the
servers. But since some of the properties of all theese nodes are
common for everyone I would like to make a base class that other
classes can Inherit. The usual OOP thinking.

So no, I don't want to drop the same shape, I want to drop the same
shape for every Probe, same for every router etc. But ofcourse add
the
diffrent properties(IP, Interface etc) to each shape as text beside
it

Hope this clears my thaughts a bit

Thanks



Mark Nelson [MS] skrev:
It's not clear what your intent is here. Do you want to drop the
same shape
every time and have it dynamically take on the right look based on
your
data? That is a multi-shape, which you can learn more about here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2006/07/21/673305.aspx

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<johan.svallbring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Im new to VBA programming and I have a question.

My plan is to read information from a database(ADODB
Connection). This
has been sorted allready.

I want to take this information and draw diffrent Symbols and
populate
them with diffrent properties.

My question is then if I can make heritage with my classes, and
if so
how do I define them

I want one base class that is a general figure, then 3 other
that
inherits from this.
















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