Professional Development with Visio® 2000

Connecting SmartShapes Symbols

Presume that you have a Connector SmartShape symbol; we will call this symbol A. Presume also that you have an Organizational Chart Position SmartShape symbol; we will call this symbol B. Under Automation, we want to glue the endpoint of A to a location on B. This process involves the following steps:

1.	We need to get references to each of the A and B symbols. You already understand how to do this.
2.	We need to get a reference to the glueable part of A, that is, its endpoint, by getting a reference to A's EndX or EndY cell.
3.	We need to get a reference to either a location on B or to a connection point on B by getting a reference to the Connections.X1 cell, for example.
4.	We need to use the GlueTo or GlueToPos ...