Pro+v21 - Smart Duplication

[Acorn]

Dear Xara...

Take three spaced squares and colour them RGB and Group.
Clone two copies.
Enable Smart Duplication (SD) for these and grow one left and one right.

Bug - Only the end two squares are duplicated, giving: <RGRGRGRGRG...RGB & RGB...GBGBGBGBGB>

A feature that can only count to two is dumb!

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Ungroup RGB and Soft-Group.

Bug - The Smart Duplication button is shaded out.

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Ungroup and move the middle box to a different layer.
Select RGB and Smart Duplicate.

Bug - The duplicated boxes remain in one layer, regardless of the original layer a box is on.

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Place R, G & B randomly on the page.
With the Smart Duplication button enabled, select any two.
The SD spacing handles top-right & bottom right appear so you can drag right or down or even align top or left.

Bug - Selecting more than two and the CD button is again shaded.
Bug - Aligning top and the spacing handle disappears.
Bug - Aligning left and the spacing handle disappears.
Bug - Not offering a spacing handle on each edge is a pain.

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Set R, G & B horizontally spaced.
Set R, G & B vertically spaced.
Offset one square in each RGB block.

Bug - The (+) is missing in the orthogonal direction.

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Again, you have added a feature that is next to useless down to poor specification and implementation.
Where is your beta-testing?

Acorn

[handrawn]

not only that, they have taken out the show boundary handles button and the registry change that Eva said we could use to revert to the old handles no longer appears to work

[Acorn]

not only that, they have taken out the show boundary handles button and the registry change that Eva said we could use to revert to the old handles no longer appears to work

handrawn, I believe Shift+ctrl+1 is still toggling this.

Acorn

[handrawn]

as far as I can see Mr G that rotates the blue/white boundary, not the same thing ?

what worries me is that without the show boundary handles button, we are back in the land of squishy/squashy, no way to stretch a bitmap, only 'resize it's frame'

[handrawn]

ok my bad I got it phew!

thanks for that I can sleep tonight

[handrawn]

... but although that makes stretching ok we are still unable to get rid of the silly blue/white static ants if the registry key switch is broken...