Dash patterns: for railway lines

**Noel Williams** · 22 August 2007, 01:59 AM

Many thanks Raynerj1 and Egg for your suggestions. This was exactly what I was looking for.

Egg's method is a little bit more fiddly, but unlike the three line method it does work successfully with coloured sleepers/ties. See attached file.

Anyone else agree there is a problem with selecting the second standard dash pattern from the line gallery in the new version of Xtreme Pro?

**raynerj1** · 22 August 2007, 02:05 AM

I tried all the dash patterns... dey all werks fur me... sorry can not duplicate.

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 August 2007, 04:41 AM

Works fine for me too. Try Un-install / Re-install.

**brianlj** · 22 August 2007, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by Noel Williams

Anyone else agree there is a problem with selecting the second standard dash pattern from the line gallery in the new version of Xtreme Pro?

Confirmed.

Basically, if you have a line drawn and selected on the page, you can't swap between applying the 2nd pattern and applying the last pattern. You always have to apply an intermediate pattern.

(Oh, and it doesn't matter whether you apply the pattern by dbl-clicking the pattern or selecting it and clicking the 'Apply' button.)

**handrawn** · 22 August 2007, 09:43 AM

agreed

selecting second 'locks' the last
selecting last 'locks' the second

to 'unlock' need to select an intermediate pattern

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 August 2007, 01:05 PM

Ah, I can duplicate that now. I was using what you would call the 3rd pattern (I didn't count the solid line as a pattern).

**GerryI** · 22 August 2007, 01:40 PM

Yes, this is definitely a bug. The last dash pattern is actually a special one used for drawing the guidelines. The size of the dashes does not scale with the line width like it does for all the other styles and the actual dash definition is the same as the first one in the list. This confuses the gallery causing both of them to appear selected.

This problem is present back to Xtreme 2.0 (and probably earlier). It should be a pretty trivial fix.

Gerry

**Noel Williams** · 29 March 2008, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by GerryI

Yes, this is definitely a bug. The last dash pattern is actually a special one used for drawing the guidelines. The size of the dashes does not scale with the line width like it does for all the other styles and the actual dash definition is the same as the first one in the list. This confuses the gallery causing both of them to appear selected.

This problem is present back to Xtreme 2.0 (and probably earlier). It should be a pretty trivial fix.

Gerry

This bug is still present in the trial version of Xara Xtreme Pro 4.

Noel

**Hwy101** · 22 August 2007, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Noel Williams

Many thanks Raynerj1 and Egg for your suggestions. This was exactly what I was looking for.

Egg's method is a little bit more fiddly, but unlike the three line method it does work successfully with coloured sleepers/ties. See attached file.

Anyone else agree there is a problem with selecting the second standard dash pattern from the line gallery in the new version of Xtreme Pro?

Nice Tracks Noel - Tom