Drawing Tools

Line Tool

We will start from the simplest thing you may draw on the stage – the line. Remember that you may undo anything you’ve done not correctly by using Menu-Edit – Undo or pressing Ctrl-Z shortcut. Depress the button with the thin diagonal line from the Tools panel. When you move now the mouse cursor to the stage you will see that it changes an appearance from the arrow to the cross.

Click a left mouse button at one point of the screen and holding it drag the mouse. When you drop the mouse (release left button) line will be completed.

You may notice that Properties Inspector shows now the properties of the line. Change the color of the line and it’s thickness. Experiment with the Stroke Style (there is a combobox with predefined dash, dot, spray and other lines). You also may even create your own pattern of the line using Custom button.

When you highlight the line the pixel coordinates of the shape are displayed (actually coordinates of the rectangle that embrace the line or any other objects. In our example it’s a rectangle for which the drawn line serves as a diagonal). You can see W for Width, H for Height and X and Y for the position of the left corner of the rectangle.

You may save and publish your file and observe how it will look like on the web page.

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