XX5 rapid sketching?

[Squeaky]

Yeah. I know. I'm just a bit dissapointed. It was supposed to be 'Rapid sketching' and it very much isn't even if you do fiddle with the registry.

[handrawn]

Bill - gotcha - autodeselectfreehand registry key - thanks

[a4hire]

another disappointing upgrade

[handrawn]

Ah. Thats a bit sad. I'd hoped for more control and to be able to turn off the control points while drawing.
I guess its back to Expression for line work

right I reset the AutoDeselectFreehand key to 1 - and yes when using the freehand tool the control points are turned off

excellent - just what I had asked for - thank you xara

[Squeaky]

Good tip. But shame we have to mess with the registry.....(I can never remember what to tweak)

[handrawn]

does not the xreg work - as Bill mentioned earlier

[Squeaky]

I'll admit that I haven't tried it yet - downloading now.

.....but why oh why Xara couldn't have built this into V5 I'll never know. Did they even try sketching with the default tool?

Oh well. They will get my money anyway. (twice for the same software if Xtreme is now the same as web designer)

[handrawn]

Also its a pity it only works with constant line + stroke shapes and not with custom brushes, but they are a different tool so I can accept that

Hopefully custom brushes will get an overhaul next update, meanwhile it may be my imagination but it seems the custom brush interface is a bit 'better behaved' that it was....

As for not putting the changes to freehand in the UI - maybe that is to be part of a future development?
For the moment at least xreg is a very good utility

[Giovanni]

Hopefully custom brushes will get an overhaul next update

Yes, sure...