Scrap usage?

[haakoo]

Hi all,

How many off you use the scrap-object feature ?

Hans

[wW]

What's a scrab?

[haakoo]

It's something like this;

Open Xxpro create some objects,select these objects and drag n drop(or copy/paste) them on a (windows) folder.
There is a scrab object created in this folder.

Now close xara

When you double+click the scrabobject it opens xxpro with the objects as objects thus editable.
When you change any object you can update the scrab object or save a copy as .xar,(look in file menu)

Hans

[handrawn]

would that be scrap rather than scrab?

[haakoo]

Nope

Steve, i will put in the file,try to open it
maybe this works(just a guess)

**works,downloaded it from here on my other pc**

Hans

[handrawn]

interesting looks very similar - are you running standard english windows?
EDIT - no I can see you are not - is it a language thing?
I'll look at your file...

[handrawn]

yes - thats what I'd call a scrap object

interesting that it updates automatically as you make changes - now that could be useful

EDIT - actually it dosn't - it just automatically updates when you exit - not so useful

[haakoo]

Yes that's it,are you able to open it?
don't know about auto-update but you can manually
**edit does auto update on exit.
But still interesting for inbetween editing and at the end save a copy as .xar **


Hans

[handrawn]

yes can open it fine and it acts just like a scrap file I create on my machine.

not sure what you mean by 'edit does auto update' - maybe thats what I had in the back of my mind - how does that work?

[The Alien]

To answer your initial question: I do know about scrap objects, but I don't use them. Scrap files is a somewhat forgotten Windows function