When I resize a page in XDP 15 using File/Page Options/Page Size, I get the following warning:
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Does anyone know what this entails? I've had this message pop up at other occasions as well but cannot recall the exact steps.
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When I resize a page in XDP 15 using File/Page Options/Page Size, I get the following warning:
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Does anyone know what this entails? I've had this message pop up at other occasions as well but cannot recall the exact steps.
The only way i could achieve this would be to click the Mouse Tab instead of the Page Size Tab and input a negative number for the Point value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
It might be that you are using the light Ui as Xara does not fully support it.
Acorn
This happens if I enter the incorrect units, for example 300p instead of 300px
I do use the light UI but how could that have something to do with it? The UI is originally light and I only bypass the .xml file xaradark_theme that was later added by Xara.
I did not enter a negative value, I selected a preset (A5, changing from A4). Also when I upscale the page size, I get this message. The page actually changes in size, despite the warning.
I occasionally get a similar warning too and it never makes ant sense to me.
if for example some part of the program coding has the dark theme as a dependency...Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
bearing in mind removing it is not advocated by xara, and it has been there a long time, so more recent code may assume it is there [maybe not in an ideal world, but in the real world these things can happen]
but it could be something completely different
Sorry, but that's indeed sheer speculation, handrawn.
In addition, it's something that started fairly recently. I've been using the light UI from not much later after Xara launched the dark interface.
I gave a senario that would explain the circumstances that you queried- and like i said afterwards it could be something else
everything is sepeculation without hands on of the computer is it not ?
besides, if acorn thinks that might be the cause, we should all take it seriously ;)
I appreciate you are using ver 15 and have not had this before, but windows updates , graphic drivers update.... things change
but unless we have had it ourselves it is still educated guesswork - what more do you expect ?
handrawn and I are "speculating" as we do not have access to your machine, your configuration or your actions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
Changing the OS through an update can affect Windows DLLs that Xara relies on.
Programs are quite delicate and if Xara states the unsupported Light Skinned UI places the application is an untested state, you may get such an error.
How is possibly that the Options dialog window has been incorrectly coded for the inputs of the Page Size > Paper inputs and the Mouse inputs, resulting in the error.
In my XDA's Dark Skinned UI set-up, both reflect the same detail:
AcornQuote:
Unique ID: ahk_id 0x90c46
Title: Options
Class: ahk_class#32770
Control: Edit1
Active Control: Edit1
You're the Xara authority here, Acorn, so I have to accept that the light UI might be causing the warning.
I find it almost impossible to work with Xara's dark interface and am happy that other apps, such as the Affinity suite, offer the two options. As I look at it now, I would, albeit regretfully, stop using Xara's apps altogether if I can't work with them anymore using the light interface setup. Over the years, I've raised the issue a number of times in 'Dear Xara' but there's been no response by Xara.
I also have XWDP 17 installed and use its light interface. Fortunately no issues.
Boy, in the end it is just a niggle for you as it breaks nothing.
Maybe Xara will float past and sort it out.
Acorn
You know what I find funny, Acorn? That after the introduction of the the dark interface, Xara included the dark-light-UI toggle switch and continued to add light-interface buttons for new features. I forget now which buttons because it's a while back when I discovered this but to me it fits Xara's MO as a confused, meandering outfit.
if you mean ctrl +alt+shft+s then that was never intended to be for the benefit of users, it was/is a programmers switch - the use of it, along with the removal of the XML theme are things that useers here have suggested [aka hacks] they are not supported by xara for users
the 'new' light face buttons will be defaults I would imagine that take the place of the equivalent dark face ones
You can sometimes be such a know-all and sound even sanctimonious, handrawn!
Well, I've said it.
know all - yes guilty, I grew up that way
sanctimonious - no... I am not superior to anyone else, I just like disseminating information... if that is a flaw it is not a moral one... ;)
Damn, I thought I'd cornered that market already.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
It's like having to share the Lotto top prize!
Acorn
@All - if you raise a TG question and get a sanctimonious response from handrawn or me, be grateful as I rarely get any help back from Xara...
...I believe we are driven by the same imperative, "Just Make It Work!"
ah but you know far more about xara programs, and the like, than I do :D