Drawing a straight line

[Martin Baxter]

It sounds like the objects could be snapping to the grid setting. There is
a Grid Spacing (Pixels) preference (under appearance preferences in my
version of RR) which affects this IIRC. Mine is set to 1, and I vaguely
remember setting it to that myself in order to ocercome the annoyance you
describe.

Martin Baxter

>I can't use the line tool (or rectangle tool for that matter) because they
>both seem to almost skip pixels. I'll try to drag a rectangle or draw a line
>over an area, and I can end the drawing either one pixel from the edge or
>one pixel over the edge.
>
>Scott Slaugh
>
>On 5/4/05, Frank D. Engel, Jr. <fde101 at fjrhome.net> wrote:
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>> Why don't you just use the line tool?
>>
>> For bitmap line drawing, it's hidden in a submenu with the curve tool
>> (just left of the pencil).
>>
>>
>> On May 4, 2005, at 2:19 AM, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
>>
>> > Yes, well, seems the good folks at RunRev haven't put all the HyperCard
>> > goodies
>> > in yet. Or there is another bugzilla pilling up dust ;)
>> >
>> > There's the resizeN2O plugin i wrote that could do this easily with a
>> > few
>> > tweaks.
>> > http://monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=78
>> >
>> > But it's unfinished, under-funded and no-one seemed interested. So i
>> > put i
>> > into the bottom of the pile...
>> > I'll put it in the coming week's todos and i might include it in GIM -
>> > my
>> > new Graphical Interface Manager
>> >
>> > cheers
>> > Xavier
>> >
>> >
>> > On 04.05.2005 06:09:33 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>> >> I have recently been converting some stacks from HyperCard into
>> > Revolution.
>> >> In the process of putting the color back into the stacks, I have found
>> > that
>> >> I need to be drawing straight lines with the pencil tool. However, as
>> >> for
>> > as
>> >> I know, there is no key that I can hold down such as shift to keep the
>> > line
>> >> going straight, as I can in other drawing apps. Does anyone know of a
>> >> way
>> > to
>> >> quickly add this functionality to Revolution?
>> >>
>> >> Scott Slaugh
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