Fill behaviour change from 2.0 - 3.2

[JimmyJ123]

Hi everyone,

I've recently upgraded to extreme 3.2 but have noticed straight away that the behaviour when performing fills is different.

For example when performing a three point fill, in 2.0 I was able to drag the individual points simply by using left mouse and drag.

However in 3.0 this only causes the entire fill to rotate and scale.

Does anyone know of a setting to get the behaviour back to how 2.0 works?

[handrawn]

try holding the shift key down whist you drag - this may help?

welcome to TG

[JimmyJ123]

Hi Steve,

Thanks, yes I discovered the shift key method earlier, but is there anyway to change the default behaviour? So that I don't have to keep pressing the shift key? Its just I've been using 2.0 for so long know that old habbits die hard.

[handrawn]

Well I'll tell you what I do - I keep both xtreme 2.0 and xtreme pro 3.2 on my machine so when I want the old fill behavior - which is often, I have the choice.

There has been much discussion about the changes and quite a bit of discontent - have a look at this thread also
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=28520
this is not on the specific point you raised but it is related

fill changes are covered [briefly] in xara 3.2 release notes

[gwpriester]

Welcome to the Xtreme Conference Jim

The change is because you can now drag the fill around by the fill path arrows. So if you like the fill but not the position of the fill, you can drag on the fill path arrow and move the entire fill path without altering the length of the fill path arrows.

Gary

[handrawn]

thanks for that Gary

both ways have their pros and cons...