Lost my Shapes - D-Tools Forum

JordanC · 12-19-2006, 11:16 PM

New PC here and installed all my software and everything is operating normally. Until now. I opened my project up in Visio and was doing my Plan View page and was attampting to add shapes, but when I hit the "Shapes" tab the window does not come up. I did a repair installation, but still got the same results. Anyone have any ideas?

Bob Pothier · 12-20-2006, 12:50 PM

Can you see the stencil tree with all the categories? One other thing... did you install this on the C Drive? Very interesting.

JordanC · 12-20-2006, 04:09 PM

I do have the Stencil Tree. When I select the Shapes, The Stencil Tree goes away and the Shapes DONOT appear. This was installed on my local drive. Here is another funny one. I checked the other machines that I have DT's installed on and this error is on all of them. I think I have a bad installer?

Bob Pothier · 12-20-2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by JordanC

I think I have a bad installer?

I don't think you are a bad installer. You should take it easy on yourself. Besides don't admit it! Seriously though... I see what you mean because I just opened a project on mine and when I click on Shapes everything on that side goes away. Not sure what is up with that.

SenoS · 12-20-2006, 05:45 PM

I believe this has always behaved this way. The Shapes window only displays when you right-click and dock a Stencil or if you select View-->Shapes Window.

JordanC · 12-20-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by SenoS

I believe this has always behaved this way. The Shapes window only displays when you right-click and dock a Stencil or if you select View-->Shapes Window.

I somhow got the Shapes Window up, but no shapes to show for it. . .

SenoS · 12-20-2006, 05:59 PM

I see the same thing. The Shapes window will display all of the docked stencils for a particular Visio session if you display the Shapes window by right clicking and docking a Stencil. As soon as you choose View-->Shapes window, the "cache" seems to clear and no docked stencils display.

I am not sure why it does this but I am very certain code hasn't changed on our end to cause this. I think this has always behaved this way but I am not 100% sure.

SenoS · 12-20-2006, 06:03 PM

Additional findings:

The "cache" clearing behavior described in my last post is dependent on what interface you are using in SI 4. If you are using the Simple Interface, selecting View-->Shapes Window shows as blank. If you are using the Advanced Interface, the "cache" does not clear.

To change your interace setting: D-Tools-->Options-->Advanced/Simple Interface (toggles depending on your current setting).

JordanC · 12-20-2006, 08:52 PM

When I switch to the advanced interface, I get the layout including the shapes, but only the DT Annotations are showing, not the rest.