Just checking thru all the stuff that I never got around to using and stumbled across the Interactive Connector Tool (ICT). However, when I try to use it, I can only get one end of the connection to actually latch onto an object. To fix the other end to another object, I apparently would have to make it the active object so that I could connect to - or even see - the nodes. But when I tried selecting both objects, the 2nd (connect to) object lost focus on my selecting the node of the connect from object with the ICT. Each time I end up with a line that is fixed to a point on the background as the connect to point and the connect from object on the other end. What am I doing wrong?
Here is a tutorial.
Hello Phil; The way I connect nodes is combine the objects and drag the nodes together. I have set them in the setup to auto join. That works the fastest for me and it works well.
George
Hmm... Tried to combine two bitmaps... DRAW X3 doesn't allow that to happen, I gather. However the ICT does work with bitmaps, I just discovered, IF you can find the node for the 2nd bitmap. So far, the only way that I have succeded in that is to grab the free end of the connector and wave it around until it tells me that I've found the node. Then everything is fine. Ought to be a better way, tho.
Another issue is that the IC goes behind the bitmaps. I.e., the bitmap obscures the IC. This would be a problem if what I wanted to do was point across the top of the bitmaps.
One might think as well that the IC would be subject to further manipulations, such as adding curves and other nodes along it's length, or attaching a spring from such a node to a node of some other object, such that the IC would stretch in the direction indicated by the spring's torque. Dream on... Someone apparently had the idea of doing something like that at COREL, as you can move or compress the IC - H or V, but it always springs back to the original config, so what is the point?