FUCK ADOBE!

Out of context: Reply #431

  • Started
  • Last post
  • 720 Responses
  • shapesalad0

    Serious question here. How do you use Illustrator and not go completely insane?

    I've just drawn a box, with a fill... but having previously adjusted a stroke colour, and thusly had the focus of the 'Fill / Stroke' colour thingy set to stroke, even though my rectangle has a fill colour and NO STROKE... I go to colour palette to quickly adjust the fill colour of the said rectangle...

    but no...

    no...

    Adobe with their 'Illustrator' want to add another grey hair to my head, and possible induce a stroke... as it's kept the focus of the 'Fill / Stroke' thing to 'Stroke' even those there is no stroke on the rectangle, I now have a stroke on my rectangle in the colour I want the fill..

    Yes.. yes I know, press X and quickly switch focus. But why add a UI/|UX step?
    If I want a stroke I'd add one, probably via the stroke panel where I can set the thickness.

    The colour palette... no... that's not where I'd add a stroke, I'd prefer to adjust the fill colour.

    It'd take, what? Two lines of simple code at the most to get illustrator to switch automatically focus, without requiring the user to press 'X' a million times.

    Of course this all manifests itself the opposite way around when working with a stroke only object and not realising the focus of the 'Fill/Stroke' colour thing is on Fill.

    This drives me all insane. I can't stand it. I want to learn c++, hack the source code and add in the line myself.

    shapesalad 0Permalink
    UpvoteDownvote
    Flag
    • Basically I want it do this: Object selected has stoke only, switch focus to stroke. Object has fill only, switch focus to fill. No X pressing needed.shapesalad
    • This winds me up too.Chimp
    • I read this a couple of times and still don't follow. You can use Shift-X to swap the state of your fill and stroke on a selected shape if you want.CyBrainX
    • ^ but I'm not sure that's what you want.CyBrainX
    • I'm with you, CBX. If I do get it - any behaviour that 'sorted' this would likely infuriate me with its presumption.Nairn
    • My hand ever-hovers over the bottom left of my keyboard. Any [alt] + [x] thing there is mete unconsciously.Nairn
    • You code would make it impossible to add a stroke. Haha.monospaced
    Show [[ numHiddenNotes ]] more notesAdd Note
    SaveCancel

View thread