ELLIPSE is a drawing tool capable of drawing filled ellipses and/or ellipse outlines. The ellipse can be rotated.
If the Circle option is selected, the width and height of the drawn shape is kept the same.
Press the left mouse button over the canvas, move the mouse and release the button. A new ellipse is created and control handles appear. You can drag the handles to resize the ellipse or circle. The brown control handle can be used to rotate the ellipse.
In a vector layer, the ellipse can be converted to Shape and further refined by selecting Convert to Shape from the Object or the context menus.
ELLIPSE tool can be used from scripts. The command in script may have 4 to 6 parameters:
DrawTool.ELLIPSE(Document, 100, 100, 50, 30);
DrawTool.ELLIPSE(Document, 100, 100, 50, 30, 40/180*pi); // ellipse rotated by 40 degrees clockwise
DrawTool.ELLIPSE(Document, 100, 100, 30); // circle with radius of 30 pixelsSee also: DrawTool object, Document object, Rectangle tool
Striker_AC
registered user
on March 5th 2015
I created my new cursor (a teal circle around my normal white cursor) and it works great but I'd like to edit the circle--re-size and re-position. I have the pointer and circle on separate layers with the pointer layer on top. How do I select the circle so I can change its dimensions?
the cursor editor does not support vector layers, so your best bet is to delete the layer with the circle and create a new one with a new circle
Anonymous
on August 23rd 2015
how do I unshade the yellow its to bright
Anonymous
on November 26th 2015
i cannot find a layer.....please help me
never mind i've found it
Anonymous
on January 23rd
What I would like to do is use a big circle as my text select cursor. I have seen people using this in YouTube videos to kind of focus attention on the text they are referring to and things like that. Theirs are about as big around as the height of say 3 or 4 lines of text in a webpage or document or whatever. I tried making one and it is about as big around as one line width. How would I make this big circle cursor? Thanks
Anonymous
on January 23rd
I made the above post, sorry I meant one line height.
You cannot make that big cursors. Some screen recording programs can add that big circle to the video, but it is not the actual cursor, it is just a video enhancement.
Anonymous
on January 23rd
how do you make a color around the cursor and so when you save it you don't get a regular cursor :-(tell me that is wrong is it my laptop just please let me know
Anonymous
on March 16th
HOW DO U CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THE CIRCLE >:(
Anonymous
on April 9th
I do not know how to select the shape of round 
Anonymous
