A Simple Question: How do I draw a vertical line?

[Mark Smith]

Len, hold the shift key down when drawing - it constrains the angle  
to 22.5 degerees.

Best,

Mark

On 19 Aug 2008, at 21:03, len-morgan at crcom.net wrote:

> This would seem to be an easy thing to do with a GUI IDE but I  
> can't seem
> to get it right.  I want to draw some vertical lines on a form that  
> are
> thicker than one pixel (this is where I'm having problems).
>
> I can't do it (accurately) with the mouse so I'm drawing a pretty  
> close
> approximation of vertical and then I want to use the property  
> inspector to
> "correct" the line and make it vertical.  The problem is if I move the
> bottom of the line, the top moves.  If I move the top, the bottom  
> moves.
> It seems to be trying to create a line inside the corners of a  
> rectangle
> and therefore, I can never get a truly vertical line.
>
> Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong here?  For what it's worth, I'm
> trying to put on lines that are somewhere around 6 to 8 pixels  
> "thick."
>
> Thanks!
>
> Len Morgan
>
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