Strange behaviour when cloning a small graphic

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Tue Mar 10 09:58:09 EDT 2009


Hi Ian,

I believe this is a known bug. Rumors have it that it will be fixed  
soon. In the mean time, I can only advice to use a slightly larger  
picture with transparent areas, which after resizing is still larger  
than 6x6 px.

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Mark Schonewille

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On 8 mrt 2009, at 01:49, Ian McKnight wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a stack where I want to produce a number of straight 'tick'
> marks on a line (as on the axis of a graph). I have produced my axes
> in a group and produced a series of spaced ticks in a subgroup -
> everything works fine.
>
> The problem occurs when I change the size of the tick. Each tick is a
> line graphic 7 pixels long (horizontal or vertical). Cloning lines of
> length 7, 8 or more works, however if I change the length of the line
> to 6 or less I end up with a diagonal line many times larger. I have
> even changed the size of the graphic using the inspector and cloned it
> using the message box - 7 seems to be a threshold.
> For example the points of a length 7 graphic might be 497, 525 and
> 504, 525 while the same graphic of length 6 would give 442,466 and
> 560, 584.
>
> All I do within a loop is
> clone a master graphic
> change the name of the clone
> set the clones location
>
> Has anyone else come across this?
>
> I use Windows XP and have tested in Rev Enterprise 3.0 gm3 and Rev 3.5
>
> -- 
> Regards
>
>
> Ian McKnight




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