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Anonymous · #1 (**permalink**) 10-14-2003

Hi everybody, i'm working in a project with mappoint.
Now i must hide a lot of shapes, but... with the properties of shapes.line.visibility and shapes.fill.visibility i can't do that.
Anyone know ho I can do this?
Sorry for my poor english. I'm spanish.
Thanks a lot!!!

**John Meyer** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2003

are you saying that ".Line.Visible = False" does not work? Can you show what code you have tried?

Anonymous · #3 (**permalink**) 10-16-2003

I understand Aussoft's problem. There seems to be a nice little quirk wherein you can have either the line visibility set to false OR the fill visibility, but not both. So, if you put a shape other than a line on the map, you can't hide it. Basically you have to programatically add and remove the shapes instead of making them visible/invisible.

This one was also brought up with textboxes. Still waiting to see if there's a better solution.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/mappoint/disc...pic.asp?t=4605

Anonymous · #4 (**permalink**) 10-17-2003

2000 lines in MapPoint. Every line has a name: "R_" & idstart & "_" & idfinish.
I want show or hide one kind of lines but the solution is remove or add.
This process is too slow.
I've tested all the imaginary ways to hide a shape or a line. No way.
Thanks Jhon Meyer and the anonymous guest for your time.
I will go on in my project and if I know the solution I'll post here.

Thanks everybody!.

Mossoft · #5 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004

Just came across this problem as well. Got round it by using the Fill AND Line Visible properties like this:

shp.Fill.Visible = (chkShow(CHK_SHOW_DIRECTION).Value = vbUnchecked)
shp.Line.Visible = Not shp.Fill.Visible

The value of the check box determines the visibility of the line shape.

M.