How to Set The Default Style for Use With Paint Bucket?

[GregSmith]

The paint bucket seems like it might be a real time-saver. To save steps, I want to be able to immediately fill a shape with the default style. The trouble is, I never have been able to discover how to create, at any point in a Moho session, a new default style.

How does a person reset the default style so that every time the paint bucket is used to fill a shape, the latest default style is used?

Thanks,

Greg Smith

[Lost Marble]

First, make sure that there are no shape is currently selected. (You can use Edit->Select None to be sure.) Then, change the fill color, line color, line width, etc. in the Style palette - the new colors/etc. you set up will be applied to any new shapes you create. This includes circles with auto fill, the paint bucket, the fill tool, the insert text command, etc.

[GregSmith]

Mr. Marble:

Thanks for this most excellent tip. I have to tell you, that though I never used the very early versions of Moho, I liked the "Style" palette when it was simpler. It has been the hardest part, for me, of learning Moho.

I actually created a default, visual "Style" template by creating a bunch of frequently used styles, rendering the image of these styles applied to ovals, then placed them, as an imported Image layer, beneath the actual objects which contain each style, (so that I can have a visual preview of each one).

Then, by "pushing" the style I pick using, I think, the create shape tool, I was able to have a set of custom icons that I could pick and choose for style assignment purposes. Now, whenever I start Moho, I use this setup as a default template, and I have the functionality that I wished were present, automatically in the "Style" window.

P.S.: Will Moho ever be "real time" like Mirage, for instantly viewing what you create without rendering?

Thanks again,

Greg Smith

[Lost Marble]

Although I can't say what will happen in the future, for now the "render" step won't be going away.