combine 2 lines together

[gpholman]

Sorry but I've not used Xara in ages and can't remember how (or even if it's possible) to join two lines together. I was using the freehand tool with trace mode enabled to roughlty trace around an object in a jpeg image so I zoomed in on the object in the image I wanted to trace to get better precision. This meant the image was larger than my monitor and I had to trace a bit, press space bar, pan a bit, press space bar to get back to freehand tool, move over end of line to get little '+' sign to continue drawing existing line etc. But on one of the times I must have not got the '+' so was actually drawing a new line and not a continuation of the existing - hence need to get these 2 to join together. Ramble over, time for bed. night night.

[Big Frank]

select both lines
change to shape editor
click drag to select the two end points/nodes
click on and drag one end point to the other until you see the plus come up
let go

[gwpriester]

To clarify, the two end points that are connected. A small plus will appear to let you know the two segments are about to become one.

[wizard509]

An easy way to tell that you have actually joined them aside from the + sigh is to change the color of one (or more if you have multiple unjoined lines) then when the two are joined they both become the same color.

[gpholman]

Cheers - just what I needed, mant thanks. Larry - nice tip on changing the line colour before-hand!