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Smart Labelled Line 01 - FAIL
Dear Xara...
I had a Shape with a Labelled Line 01 dimensioning one of its sides.
I happened to double it and the dimensioned line failed me.
I have created an example file. Each of the squares doubles properly.
I know I am using pixels and not millipoints but I actually trust your old style Xara algorithms.
Well almost. You cannot mark out 1024px; it insists it is 1023.9px every time.
I doubled down all the way to 1px successfully.
Bug - I then doubled up with fails at 16px (16.7px), 128px (133.8px) & 1024px (1070.1px).
All seemingly random.
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What is the point of adding a capability if it fails to integrate?
Acorn
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I couldn't deuplicate your result Acorn but I did find a bug of my own, at least I think it is a big.
I drew a line and converted it to shape and applied a 2pt line around it and it did not outline the entire line as expected. this was aq 2pt converted line with a 2pt line around it
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Here is what I was trying to do originally:
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The blue box is a Xara naff idea of pretending an image that says it is 960px wide can stay that way if it is at all scaled.
I added labelled lines H&V to a 960 x 540px box, thinking any scaling would be reflected in the numbers shown.
Bug - the red box dimensions do not stay accurate when scaling with any of the 8 control points. The red box is grouped as:
Bug - the blue box is soft-grouped with the same Bug but now you can only ratio scale as the middle controls have vanished.
Bug - any SmartShape rotated by a degree loses the middle controls.
Seriously?
Acorn
Re: Smart Labelled Line 01 - FAIL
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Originally Posted by
wizard509
I couldn't deuplicate your result Acorn but I did find a bug of my own, at least I think it is a big.
I drew a line and converted it to shape and applied a 2pt line around it and it did not outline the entire line as expected. this was aq 2pt converted line with a 2pt line around it
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Larry, I have tried and cannot replicate your described problem.
I got something worse.
I drew a 300px x 2pt (2.67px) green horizontal line and converted Line to Shape: 302.7 x 3.3px shape.
I gave the shape a red 2pt Line width so it looked as it it was a thick red line: 305.3 x 6px shape. The Colour Bar showed a green fill with a red lining.
Selecting the middle top control point and drawing up created a skewed shape as three of the shapes controls, not two were selected. Ditto with the middle bottom control.
Previously, I tried this and got the correct shape growing but with another green line as it is was an artefact.
All very weird.
Acorn
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Still @Xara.
While this SmartShape is being reviewed, could you also fix the discrepancy (Bug) around the timeline not being centred?
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My failure to understand perhaps. Just how is it used for a timeline?
I can not add Text Inside sensibly.
I can not remove a blob but keep its gap. Well, I can but tweaking the colours is not really the way ahead for a SmartShape?
I have also worked out how to alter the blob but would much prefer the blob to have been a QuickShape from the outset.
One Theme Colour for both bar and blobs?
No bar width control?
No blob Line width control?
You can see what I had to do to mangle Timeline 04 to get that to work sensibly the my design file in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...Update-Service.
Acorn