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[Puneet Kishor]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 09:24  AM, Bjoern Knafla wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>> i use omnigraffle 3.0 standard with a trial license but there is 
>> somthing weired.
>> just after creating an arrow, the tool "qrrow" deselects and the tool 
>> "cursor" (the mouse arrow) selects automatically.
>> this is not handy when creating several arrows.
>>
>> how can i do. Is this normal with the trial license ?
>>
>
> Double-click the tool you want to use more than once. Its button will 
> color blue instead of grey (for using it just once) and you can create 
> as many tool-entities (arrows) as you want until you click another 
> button.
>
> I find this technique/method very slick, elegant and usable (though 
> you have to read about it first, for example in the user handbook that 
> can be downloaded) :-) a testament of the thought and polish in detail 
> that go into OmniGoups applications.
>

just about every graphics-oriented application I have used, be it on 
Mac or on Win, uses the same technique.

Click once on a tool, use it, and it defaults to the "default tool," 
usually the selection arrow.

Double-click, and the tool remains selected after use, so you can 
continue using it.