XDPX18 picture resizing frame invisible, drag and drop no go

[Chris M]

You also have a toggle mode.
If you simply click inside the image, you get eight click-drag controls that do snap.
The controls disappear but so did the old-style ones.

Well, that's unbelievable. After all this time, you'd think I would have done that by accident and gone 'hang on a minute' and worked it out.
These handles have been discussed many times, I'll bet this very thing has been discussed and my brain said 'I'll not absorb that. Nothing to see here'.

The amount of times I've eye-balled it, turned off Aspect Ratio, checked the height/width of the adjacent object, manually typed in the same size, then turned Aspect ratio back on again...and all I had to do was click the stupid thing???? I'm going to be petulant for at least a day or two.

[jaydear]

Thanks everyone. I'll try all of these, see what works for me and report back. At this point though I still can't imagine how not being able to see the bounds and results of what you're doing, as the default, was even considered - may as well be working with the monitor turned off . I will work through this though - I have to - but it'll take some time to get re-familiarised.

[handrawn]

Chris - if it makes you feel better I once moaned at xara about new layers always being placed at the top of the stack only to be told by Gerry that all I had to do was right click a layer in the gallery and click new layer there... doh

[Chris M]

Chris - if it makes you feel better I once moaned at xara about new layers always being placed at the top of the stack only to be told by Gerry that all I had to do was right click a layer in the gallery and click new layer there... doh

I'm still sulking, so no, no it doesn't make me feel better. Might do in a day or two though. I'll pop back and let you know.

[Acorn]

Thanks everyone. I'll try all of these, see what works for me and report back. At this point though I still can't imagine how not being able to see the bounds and results of what you're doing, as the default, was even considered - may as well be working with the monitor turned off . I will work through this though - I have to - but it'll take some time to get re-familiarised.

I have checked back to XX5 and the bounding box has always disappeared with click drags on shapes and images.
The difference is old-school only showed the eight black square controls, now you have a dashed (or dash it!) fence as well as a stupid picture hook (rotate0 that all disappear.

The resize on click of a control is random is is probably a Bug.

Your other concern about dragging and dropping images from Windows Explorer happens to me sometimes if I am accessing my phone. I think Xara does not recognise some drives. Does it work if you stage onto the Desktop and then into your XDA?

Acorn

[Boy]

Your other concern about dragging and dropping images from Windows Explorer happens to me sometimes if I am accessing my phone. I think Xara does not recognise some drives.

I noticed that too but other apps (such as Affinity Photo) show the same behavior. I suspect it's a Windows issue.

[jaydear]

Does it work if you stage onto the Desktop and then into your XDA? Acorn

Yes it does. The drive I was dragging from is a QNAP NAS. Looks like XDPX18 has more bugs than a picnic

[handrawn]

Thanks everyone. I'll try all of these, see what works for me and report back. At this point though I still can't imagine how not being able to see the bounds and results of what you're doing, as the default, was even considered - may as well be working with the monitor turned off . I will work through this though - I have to - but it'll take some time to get re-familiarised.

since the blue/white dashes deliniate an object's actual boundary they could be useful if the object is transparent at the edges; other than that they just get in the way

these important changes should be toggled in the UI...

[wizard509]

I have the same version and have no problem dragging, dropping, and resizing an image I wonder what the difference is, everything seems normal to me.

[Acorn]

I have the same version and have no problem dragging, dropping, and resizing an image I wonder what the difference is, everything seems normal to me.

It revolves around dragging to a Snap (Object, Grid, Ruler, Guide (shape)).

Acorn