How do you use the drawing tool?

box · Post by **box** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:48 am

This seems to be a quite stupid question, but...
I can't find a "set point" drawing tool!? When I get the tutorial right, it is meant to create shapes by using the "add point" tool. So click - drag - release - click - drag...etc. Afterwards select edge points and create edges.

Is this REALLY the way I am expected to draw? I do not want to join the "I-want-to-behave-moho-like-flash/illustrator/else", but EVERY drawing app I know of has a simple drawing tool where you just click-click-click-(alt-)click (create an edge point)-ready. (I left out the "bezier" way here for obvious reasons)

Sorry, newbie question, but I hope I overlooked something...
I could not find this point in the discussions.

Oh, and I just saw I posted in feature requests. Mmmh, I thought I was in the general forum. Might any Admin shift this to the right place?

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:58 pm

In the tool bar select pencil and draw whatever and then delete and add points as you would like. I guess you would have to live with that... And if you really can't stand the drawing tools, draw in another program and import the drawing into MoHo.

box · Post by **box** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:25 pm

Uh, I see. In this case it IS a feature request! Please, please include a "pen" tool.
Simple clicking creates a curve point on a new path segment, alt-click creates an edge point. (Bonus: command-drag lets you finetune the position while drawing.)
This is what I would call the most basic drawing tool in any vector app.
OK, Flash did not have one... in Version 4.