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Ok, I love smart arrow, but how do you use Smart Flow Line 1, 2, 3 and 4? When I import any of these four smart shapes I don't see the handles (the blue, green and yellow dots to control the shape) when I select it like they do in any of the other smart shapes. Am I missing something here? If it's me :confused: how do you use these shapes?
I'm using Xara Designer Pro X 16.2.0.56957 on Win 10, Dell XPS 15, I7, 16GB, 1T SSD
Anyone else had the same issue?
Greetings
Viiartz
Have you inadvertently deselected the Selection Bounds button?
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No, as default when you import a smart shape the Quickshape Tool is selected. When you import the Smart Flow line no control handles appear as in Image 1, if i then import a Smart arrow, you do see the control handles. The manual states that Flow lines behave just like Arrows. Obviously not!
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switch to the selector tool and make sure that the button chris mentioned is active, then switch back to the quickshape tool and see if the issue is fixed
I'm unclear as to what you're describing. Do you not see the coloured handles at all, or that the lines are different to the arrows?
To me the only difference I can see is a lack of a curvature handle on the lines.
I don't use these - but I checked - all seems working for both in my xdpx15.1 - the handles are there for both types, irrespective of the selector tool setting [as long as the objects are selected of course]
I have looked more closely at your screenshots - in the first one your object is not selected - you can tell that because the quickshape options on the infobar are not greyed out as they would be if one of these smart objects were selected....
Ok, on the Smart Flow Line, the Select tool brings up the normal control handles (black squares) as expected then when i switch back to the QuickShape tool handles disappear, no other handles appear. If i do the same thing with the arrow line, when I click the select tool the black handles appear then when I switch back to the QuickShape Tool the smart handles appear. This is the behavior I would expect from the Smart Flow line as well. Does it work on your version of XDP?
on my version the smart handles are there on both the arrow and the flow lines
maybe the issue is with selecting the flow object
how about closing the program opening a new document and seeing if it works then... glitches can happen
I can only agree with handdrawn, the handles are there as intended.