Re: Dynamic Stencil drawing based on Custom Properties?

you make an old guy feel warm and fuzzy (a long time since I've worked with
escon). Yeah, you can do it. If you would like an example of an object that
does similar functions take a look at the ethernet object in the network
templates. It allows you to have a variable number of connections.

al

"Bigwave" <Bigwave.20coec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Let me explain my scene a bit better.
>
> The stencil objects are very simplistic objects made up of simple
> shapes grouped together. The idea is to allow a user to graphically
> define the physical and logical connections between device objects in a
> Data Center (i.e. Mainframe, Ficon Director, a Ficon-to-Escon switch and
> the logical devices connected to a Control unit). Once the configuration
> is defined then an Visio add-in component will produce a configuration
> file to program the Ficon-to-Escon switch. The add-in will also be able
> to read an existing configuration file and draw the corresponding
> drawing with all the connections defined.
>
> Since each customer configuration can be quite different I need
> flexibility in how many ports, lpars, logical devices,... each device
> object has. Right now I handle this by defining different types of
> master stensil objects with say 8, 16, ... ports and if the ports
> aren't needed then they just remain on the device objects.
>
> Want I'm wondering is if it is possible to customize how many ports,
> sub-shape objects, are drawn on a master stencil object based on a
> custom property. I can then set the property to say 3 and have only 3
> ports drawn on the device. Maybe the only way to do this would be to
> dynamically hide/show the correct number of sub-shape port objects
> based on the value in the custom properties.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> - David
>
>
> --
> BigwavePosted from - http://www.officehelp.in
>


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