Wheel tip

[JF Slater]

Apologies if you all know this one, but it didn't come up with a search.

I've been trying out Egg's trace and bevel techniques in previous threads, and I got frustated trying to get the exact settings used in the dialogs, especially bitmap tracer... until I noticed that once you click on a slider, the mouse wheel can be used to cycle up and down through the values. Further bonus- still works if the mouse pointer moves away from the slider.

Another less useful discovery- In the selector tool toolbar, where you can adjust the size and position of a selected object one unit at a time by clicking on triangle/ arrow icons, clicking with the mouse wheel will change the values by two units (instead of one).

Jess

[JF Slater]

Apologies if you all know this one, but it didn't come up with a search.

I've been trying out Egg's trace and bevel techniques in previous threads, and I got frustated trying to get the exact settings used in the dialogs, especially bitmap tracer... until I noticed that once you click on a slider, the mouse wheel can be used to cycle up and down through the values. Further bonus- still works if the mouse pointer moves away from the slider.

Another less useful discovery- In the selector tool toolbar, where you can adjust the size and position of a selected object one unit at a time by clicking on triangle/ arrow icons, clicking with the mouse wheel will change the values by two units (instead of one).

Jess

[Egg Bramhill]

I never knew that either, but it's a good tip. Something else I discovered whilst trying out your tip is that if you depress the wheel within the XaraX window it alters to the Push Tool, and reverts back when undepressed.
Egg

[gwpriester]

This shall make it's way (with attribution of course) into the Tip of the Week :-)

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[JF Slater]

I only discovered Tip of the Week this morning while I was searching for the mouse wheel references. There's enough in those tips to keep me going for ages!

Thank you to everyone who posts tips and tutorials here!

Jess