Symbols in Xtreme (leftover experimental feature)
I just made a pretty exciting discovery, out of pure curiosity hacking in the Xara registry:
http://pub.instinctive.de/symbol.png
Note the "1 symbol on layer" in the status line, and "Double click to open symbol" ![Big Grin](images/smilies/smiley-grin.png)
While the implementation of this seems unfinished, as editing the original in any way doesn't update the symbols, it is a revelation because it seems like symbols (aka true "clones") have already been in development before Xtreme 4, and we can expect them for 5 (?).
To enable:
- Find the registry key "CloneMakesSymbol" in the Xara registry folder, and set its value to 1
- Use the usual "Clone object" function in Xara on an object - tadaa, you got a symbol (which unfortunately doesn't update as I said, and is otherwise totally uneditable (which would indeed be correct))
Just wanted to share this...
Last edited by instinctive.de; 12 March 2009 at 12:52 PM.
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