Is there a way to click on a Visio Shape and have a window pop up with text or notes in it?

Question

Hi there

I thought I had seen this before somewhere? If you have say a flow chart and you double click on a shape then a window or notepad type doc pops up with notes or text in it? So how do you do this ? I tried to install an Addin that did this but it did not work? I am using Visio 2007

Thanks

Answer 1

The double click function is often called from the shapesheet (the events section, eventdblclick cell), you can customize it to call a macro to display whatever you want (in most cases).

al

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Answer 2

I have a couple of free addons that can help you with this (unless of course you have already tried them but can't get them to work, in which case I'll try to help).

http://www.sandrila.co.uk/articles/visio-articles/output-dialog/

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-- Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Engineering and software shapes for Visio - http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

Answer 3

Hi there

I installed both of the addon s

I tried both of these (1 at a time)
=RUNADDONWARGS("outputdialog","This shape's width= "&Width)
=RUNADDONWARGS("outputdialog2","This shape's width= " & Width)

I did Right mouse click format -> behavior -> double click tab -> open shape's shapesheet -> found what looked like excel spreadsheet and entered formula in double click event.

and it did not work nor will it allow me to get back to it ??

Thanks,

Answer 4

Do the test documents work? Both addons contain a file called test.vsd

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-- Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Engineering and software shapes for Visio - http://www.sandrila.co.uk/