Anonymous
on November 14th 2014
I have no clue where the color is someone help me 
Ellipse drawing tool
Ellipse drawing tool
ELLIPSE is a drawing tool capable of drawing filled ellipses and/or ellipse outlines. The ellipse can be rotated.
Ellipse configuration panel
If the Circle option is selected, the width and height of the drawn shape is kept the same.
How to use the Ellipse tool
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.
Scripting parameters
ELLIPSE tool can be used from scripts. The command in script may have 4 to 6 parameters:
- centerX, centerY - center of the drawn ellipse.
- sizeX - width of the ellipse.
- sizeY (optional) - height of the ellipse; if this argument is missing, sizeY defaults to sizeX resulting in a circle.
- angle (optional) - clockwise rotation of the ellipse in radians (default is 0 radians).
Example
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
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Anonymous
on November 14th 2014
If you are using the ellipse tool, look in the right column. There should actually be 2 color pickers, one for outline and one for interior fill. The fill can be switched to gradient or patterns, so make sure to switch it back to solid fill if that is what you want.
Anonymous
on November 26th 2014
I want the yellow circle around my mouse. I am already at the eclipse stage, however have selected colour yellow and it isn't showing around the mouse on left hand side of the editing column,
Anonymous
on December 15th 2014
Vlasta please answer so that people can understand! I want to know how to get the circle around my cursor too!
Well, select the ellipse tool, select the color, probably pick something semi-transparent, and draw the ellipse by dragging from left upper corner of the canvas to right lower one. You may also want to switch to the Paint under mode to have the ellipse under the existing cursor.
Anonymous
on December 16th 2014
Well where's the color?! (*_*)
Right side of the window. You must have Ellipse or another tool that actually needs a color active to see the panel.
Anonymous
on December 16th 2014
What window?
I guess I know what is your problem. You have probably opened one of the aero cursors from Windows 7 or have created a Windows 7 cursor. These actually have 2 images in them, one used for normal resolution, another one used for high resolution displays. You should modify both of them. If you only modify for example the larger one and you are using standard resolution mode in your Windows, you will not see the change. If there are multiple images in your cursor, you can switch between them in the upper left part of the windows. When I am talking about a window, I mean the window of the editor. It has only one.
Anonymous
on February 1st
how do you create the eclipse around the mouse
Anonymous