Pen Tool

[Rik]

OK. Whilst I don't use the Pen Tool, why is it that if I place it on the Menu bar, it disappears when I shut down Designer Pro X9?

Surely, the whole point of placing various buttons on menu bars is so that you can personalise to suit yourself.
Not for a button to disappear.

So, what's going on with the Pen Tool?

[gwpriester]

It's nature's way of saying you don't need this tool.

[Acorn]

Rik, I've never much felt the need to re-arrange things so I had an amateur go at creating a menu.

1. Window > Control bars... > New...
2. Named it Gertrude.
3. Scrolled Control bars to and selected Button Palette.
4. Shift+Alt Gr the singleton Pen Tool onto Gertrude.
5. Move Gertrude to the Toolbar.
6. Close and re-opened Xara.

Still there.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I have my own custom toolbar which I have recreated dozens of times over the years. I pretty much can put it together in a few minutes every time a new version comes out.

Align, Cut, Copy, Paste in Place, Zoom 1:1, Import, Zoom to Page, Export, Print, and Group

[Acorn]

Gary, it doesn't seem that hard but Rik was asking specifically about the Pen Tool.
I tried to replicate his bug but couldn't but mainly through ignorance.

Acorn

[Rik]

Rik, I've never much felt the need to re-arrange things so I had an amateur go at creating a menu.

1. Window > Control bars... > New...
2. Named it Gertrude.
3. Scrolled Control bars to and selected Button Palette.
4. Shift+Alt Gr the singleton Pen Tool onto Gertrude.
5. Move Gertrude to the Toolbar.
6. Close and re-opened Xara.

Still there.

Acorn

Did all you said.
As you can see below:

You can see that I've created a new bar, placed the Pen Tool on it.
When I restart Designer Pro X9, then, not just the Pen Tool disappears, but the bar disappears as well.

EDIT: OK, I realise that the bar disappears because there was only one tool on it. But, the Pen Tool definitely disappears after restart.

[steve.ledger]

Sounds like the changes are not being written to the registry, Rik.
Restart DPX9 => 'Run as Admin' then make your toolbar changes, see if that holds.

[Rik]

Sounds like the changes are not being written to the registry, Rik.
Restart DPX9 => 'Run as Admin' then make your toolbar changes, see if that holds.

Running the programme as Admin, made no difference.

[steve.ledger]

Well, that's certainly not normal or expected behaviour.
Do you have other registry protection software installed?
Have you rebooted your PC recently?

[cmpan1]

OK. Whilst I don't use the Pen Tool, why is it that if I place it on the Menu bar, it disappears when I shut down Designer Pro X9?

Surely, the whole point of placing various buttons on menu bars is so that you can personalise to suit yourself.
Not for a button to disappear.

So, what's going on with the Pen Tool?

Same here....... I was just to lazy to post about it... figured it was a bug that would disappear with the next update... but yes, that thing won't stay put.....