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you really think so?
I'm sorry Phil, but the guys who get confused are the ones that don't bother to learn the difference between a line and a shape, who don't read the help or the manual - and please do not start talking about 'wasted click's when changes over the years have added to my click count when using the program a lot
just one example: following on from what I said above I would like to go back to left and right clicks on the colour line contoning a bitmap, that would save me a few clicks with the popup menu or colour editor... I use contoning a lot
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I totally agree hd, some features are becoming over-enginered like the group squeeze. This example is another one.
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OK, I have investigated this and, technically, there is no bug with the way current line and fill colours are handled when no objects are selected.
Here's why: The program maintains different sets of current colours for open lines and closed shapes. (In fact whole attribute sets are maintained for lines, shapes, text and for various other object types).
The drawing tools choose which set to use when creating a new object according to what they create. So, when you draw a shape with, say, the rectangle tool it uses one set of colours, when you draw a line with the freehand tool it uses another.
And the corollary of that is that the drawing tools update different sets of current colours when the user changes a colour. When there's nothing selected the freehand tool always updates both the line and fill colour in it's set of current colours, which are applied to open lines only, to be consistent with its behaviour when a line is selected.
You can see the different current colour sets by switching between shape-creating and line-creating tools while you have no objects selected.
OK, so that was a bit technical but what it means in practice is this:
1. It doesn't really matter that line and fill colour are both set when clicking on a colour in the freehand tool because those values are only used when new open lines are created, and so you normally only see the line colour. As soon as you close the line to create a shape a different set of current colours will be used.
2. If you want to preset different line and fill colours for creating closed shapes you can do so. You just need to switch out of the freehand tool (or the straight line tool) before you set the colours. The simplest way to think about that is to remember to switch to the tool that you're going to use to draw the shape before you set the current line and fill colours.
Phil
Last edited by PhilM; 22 August 2014 at 03:14 PM.
Phil, thanks very much for the explanation, now at least I understand what's going on. I'll be posting a request in Dear Xara about this.
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yes it's a useful explanation, but it doesn't get me back to the way it worked in ver 2 <sigh> thanks Phill
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