Next version of Xara Extreme

[remi]

Remi- too bad about autohotkey not working out for you- you stuck to recording menu commands, not mouse, right?

Unfortunately, the Authotkey's macro recorder isn't able to record Mouse-Movements (only simple mouse clicks). And unfortunately Xara Xtreme isn't fully controllable via key shortcuts.

Try it by yourself: Record the drawing of a simple Spline together with the Pen Tool. It's a pain and it's not the right way to do this automation tasks with a extern Macro recorder.

The idea to automate Xara Xtreme isn't a new one and as far as I know, the developers also discussed some details about this, but surely one of the big problem with developing software is, that good developers want to create excellent solutions and don't like to develop a bad solution for this problem. Therefore, this feature seems to be one of the feature, that needs much time to design and to implement. And to be fair enough: Implement such a automation is surely a task, which concerns a lot of parts in a software. I'm in hope, that a clever developer starts to create such a solution in the OpenSource project "Xara Xtreme for Linux" - someday.

Can you choose and move layers with keys/menus?

Here you'll find a List of Keyboard Shortcuts:
Menu "Help" -> "Xara Xtreme Help" -> References -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Regards,
Remi

[MarkMyWords]

That looks interesting, thanks Remi.