Symbols in Xtreme (leftover experimental feature)

[instinctive.de]

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"

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...