Arrow Temp Tab

Related Information

Arrow Palette

Custom Arrows

Start and End

Along

Transform

Custom Named

Custom Shape Scratch Pad

When a Bezier path, from an EazyDaw (or other drawing application) drawing is dropped on the Arrow palette’s custom shape view. It is automatically placed in the Temp position, and is not immediately applied as an arrow to a target graphic. From this position the shape may be applied to a target graphic or saved as a named arrow for future use.

This Temp tab view is accessed from the Arrow Palette by clicking the Custom tab (at the top of the palette) and clicking the Temp tab of the Custom shape editing view. This tab is automatically selected when a graphic is dropped on the custom shape view.

The 3 small blue buttons, "S", "A", and "E" are used to apply the current displayed Temp custom shape to the Start, Along, or End position of a target graphic. Select the graphic on the main EazyDraw drawing, then click one of these buttons to apply the shape to the desired position on the target graphic.

Use the stepper button (top right of the custom editing area) to step through a history of the recent custom shapes that have occupied the Temp editing view. This is a circular stepper that will sequence through all the remembered shapes.

Use the contextual menu, control - click on the custom shape editing area, to copy or paste shapes to or from an EazyDraw drawing. Or drag-and-drop Bezier path graphics between the in-place editing view and a main drawing.

Select a shape using the Name popup menu. The menu provides a selection of provided shapes and shapes added by the user.

Note that the Transform buttons are not enabled for a Temp arrow shape. Also there are no reference markers as you have for the defined custom arrow positions. These attributes (a transform and reference point) only apply relative to a host Bezier path and hence have no meaning for the Temp shape view.