We have the circle, square and star shapes that have "special" things happening when we drag the nodes; couldn't the basic shapes do special things too? As they stand, they are just 'symbols' that may as well be added in through fonts, clipart, clipboard, 'symbols' or a one click off-set: there is nothing special about them that warrants the space used in the toolbar (in my opinion of course ;)
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Hi Gadget,
Gadget said:couldn't the basic shapes do special things too?
The basic shapes, or perfect shapes, in Draw have 1 to 3 "glyphs" which are editable when the perfect shape tool or node edit tool are selected. They show up as a small coloured diamond. The glyphs can also be modified from the object properties docker. CorelDRAW currently has your "Perspective", "Cross" and "Arrow" shape, all editable as you describe.
Gadget said:Why is there both a 'polygon' and 'basic star' tool?
As I understand, the star is a commonly needed shape. Less technical users may not know that you can grab the midpoint of a polygon side, hold ctrl, and drag it inwards to make a star shape.
Gadget said:Why are there two individual types of "star"? Shouldn't there just be an option to make it 'basic' or 'full'? (and an option to expand the basic into full or reduce the full to basic)
The complex star has overlaping sides. You can't acheive this with the polygon tool or the standard star tool.
A moon shape is a good idea, and it would be handy if the glyph controls also showed in the toolbar.
Regards,Hendrik