Shortening a line.

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Oct 19 16:19:56 EDT 2004


Ryno Swart wrote:
> Shortening a line: Drawing a nice vertical line with the line tool is 
> straightforward. But to adjust the line to the right length is 
> impossible. The moment the mouse clicks on the handle, the line goes off 
> vertical, and it cannot be brought back to vertical. This seems 
> counterintuitive and counterproductive. The only way I can adjust this 
> line length while keeping it vertical, is to go into the object 
> inspector, and to use the height and width adjustors.

Ah, the dreaded Bug #624:
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=624>

While the need to address that bug is still being debated, perhaps 
someone from RunRev can chime in here with a line or two about the 
workaround they recommend.....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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