Connection Point Options

There are several options that let you control the use of connection points in your diagram. In addition to the ability to add, move, and delete connection points from figures, there are options to control how they are used for connections, how they appear on the screen, and how they are indicated on output. Each of these is covered in detail elsewhere:

• By selecting different attach methods (from the Connector menu), you can choose to attach to connection points, or ignore them while creating connectors.
• You can control how the connection points appear (on the screen) by turning them on or off from the View tab of the Options dialog box, and set their color in the Colors tab of the Options dialog box.
• You can control whether the point where a connector attaches to a connection point is marked with a dot (on screen and output), by setting Dots where connectors attach to connection points in the Diagram Properties dialog box.
• By choosing different options within the Connections tab of the Figure Properties (and Styles) dialog boxes, you can control whether only the connection points are attached to (i.e., not the centers of the figure) and whether connections to connect points extend all the way to the connect point or terminate at the edge of the figure.