Got to agree with czehz and Signpig....tinkering at best and trivialities. I have to also agree strongly that most of the stuff theyare releasing involves bits and pieces that can be easily knocked up.
Got to agree with czehz and Signpig....tinkering at best and trivialities. I have to also agree strongly that most of the stuff theyare releasing involves bits and pieces that can be easily knocked up.
I thought they all did; you have to scale up the line before the green control "Drag to select style" appears.
There are 16 ends in all and you can apply these to either End.
All the controls are Resize, Rotate, End (A), End (B), Head/Tail (A), Head/Tail (B), Drag to select style (A), Drag to select style (B), Middle segment position.
They accept any Brush.
The Fill and Line colours have different effects.
The Head/Tail size is minimally constrained by the line width and maximally by the segment position.
One single 3-segment line of 8pt width and 180 px size for the Head and Tail will almost stop interactive changes for 3 seconds on a fast machine.
The functionality of the lines themselves is accomplished but all four are the same other than their starting state.
Unless I have missed Xara documentation, all the above has been discovered through experiment.
The Drag to select style control is poor as it vanishes at small scale, changes position and the cycle round the options is not intuitive; revolving round its own centre is the one with least effort.
The Head or Tail, when changed do not remain in a locked position so the line pattern can alter and the end points all need to be re-aligned.
Mostly a toy.
Acorn
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Boy, I agree. The Smart Arrows are toys as they do not conform to the behaviour other Xara objects exhibit.
While they Snap to Grid, they do not Snap to Objects or Snap to Guides.
Changing a Head or a Tail should not alter the line's positioning.
Simple thing's like adding functionality to the meta-keys; Ctrl+"Drag to select style" to reverse the choice rather than cycling through 16 options.
Acorn
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Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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