Can't control height and width

[Round Rectangle H & Width webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

When I draw a rounded rectangle, i can no longer get a Height and Width measurement readout from the properties window. It gives me 64000 for the height and width. Resizing does not work becuase the angle of the corners are dependant upon the original dimensions of the rectangle....

Meaning....

If i eyeball a rectangle which is 65 by 100 and scale it to 70 and 150 it looks one way.

If I eyeball a rectanlge which is 80 by 120 and scale it to 70 by 150 it looks different.


In addition, the edges control doesn't appear to do anything.

Ideas? I teach hands-on classes and it is important exercises can be replicated exactly. This change seems to prevent that.

I noticed 64000 thing too. I guess it's one of the many new "features" in
2004. The graphical anomalies are really bugging me right now. Whenever I
use the Poly-Lasso tool, the blue lines from that follow the mouse sometimes
leave a trail and it is really annoying. I also noticed that certain shapes
leave trails when moved and then it exports out the anomalies which is quite
ridiculous and makes the program unusable at times.


"Round Rectangle H & Width" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> When I draw a rounded rectangle, i can no longer get a Height and Width

measurement readout from the properties window. It gives me 64000 for the
height and width. Resizing does not work becuase the angle of the corners
are dependant upon the original dimensions of the rectangle....

>
> Meaning....
>
> If i eyeball a rectangle which is 65 by 100 and scale it to 70 and 150

it looks one way.

>
> If I eyeball a rectanlge which is 80 by 120 and scale it to 70 by 150 it

looks different.

>
>
> In addition, the edges control doesn't appear to do anything.
>
> Ideas? I teach hands-on classes and it is important exercises can be

replicated exactly. This change seems to prevent that.

>
>

[Linda Rathgeber]

"Round Rectangle H & Width" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> When I draw a rounded rectangle, i can no longer get a Height and
> Width measurement readout from the properties window. It gives me
> 64000 for the height and width.

It's a shape primitive. As soon as you release the mouse button you'll
get a true reading and will be able to adjust its size with the resize
control point.

> the
> angle of the corners are dependant upon the original dimensions of
> the rectangle....

Adjust the angle of the corners via the corner control points.

> In addition, the edges control doesn't appear to do anything.

I'm not sure what you mean by edges control. Are you referring to
aliasing or feathering?


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[Round Rectangle H & Width webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks, but if you read further, I noted that using these tools do no work in the desired manner. It doesn't matter if the size is displayed AFTER I release the mouse. When I resize the rounded rectangle tool, I get different shapes based on what size the rectangle was originally. When teaching a class and trying to replicate the same imagine, I can't have people having completely different looking rectangles.

It is pretty essential that I can have the height and width display dyamically so people can eyeball how close they are to the size rectangle they desire. And currently, none of the editing tools seem to do that -- unless I am missing something.

Thanks.

timmo

See a pictue of what I am talking about.

[url]http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/ltde/squares.gif[/url]