Rounded corners on rectangle

[DukeofThomas]

Take a look at this example.
I want to be able to easily resize it, as I re-use it to say different things.
How do you easily resize it, including the bevel and shadow?

[DukeofThomas]

I got this far and then gave up. Where am I going wrong?

[Soquili]

DukeofThomas, I see you used some bitmap fills for your bevels.

Try the attached .xar file to see if that reduces some work to resize your rounded rectangles.


I made two styles similar to your original. The second I also resized to contain more text.

[remi]

Use a simple rectangle, add a bevel and a shadow and a little bit text.
And if you want to change the size of the rectangle, select the rectangle and choose the Shape Editor (F4). Within the Shape Editor you're able to drag around the handles on the right side of your rectangle to select them and move them to left or right with your cursor keys (see also Menu "Help" -> "Xara Xtreme Help" -> Index -> "nudging objects and handles").

Regards,
Remi

[Egg Bramhill]

Askings always better than knocking.

Create a rectangle. Apply rounded corners to suit.

Arrange / Convert to editable Shapes

Apply Bevel.

Apply Shadow

To legthen select the Shape editor tool

Marqee/Select all the right hand nodes

Holding down the Ctrl key drag right to suit.

Bevel & Shadow adjusts live on screen (No need for any cluttered additional windows) ;-)

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's a far more complicated shape than a rectangle with rounded corners, a bevel and a shadow. Open it up and Drag Select the righthand side nodes to widen / narrow and the bottom nodes to highten / shorten.

The bevel stays put all the time as does the shadow. The Bevel and shadow also remain editable at all times.

[DukeofThomas]

Use a simple rectangle, add a bevel and a shadow and a little bit text.
And if you want to change the size of the rectangle, select the rectangle and choose the Shape Editor (F4). Within the Shape Editor you're able to drag around the handles on the right side of your rectangle to select them and move them to left or right with your cursor keys (see also Menu "Help" -> "Xara Xtreme Help" -> Index -> "nudging objects and handles").

Regards,
Remi

Thanks very much, that works fine. The part I was missing was:
Arrange / Convert to editable Shapes

What I can't understand is why Xara can't just give you an option that allows you to do what I wanted to do in the first place, so you could drag a tag and resize the rectangle, and just use the code that you use in the Shape Editor - i.e. if I grab the right hand tag because I want to make the rectangle wider, if the program can do it using the Shape Editor and selecting the right hand corners, why can't they take it a step further and add a 'maintain round corners' button for rectangles, which would do just that? Think of the number of people this would help!!!

[remi]

Did you read my post #16 of this thread?

[remi]

I'm not sure, if I'm right. I've tested a rectangle with rounded corners within Xara Xtreme for Linux and it seems, there is no further function, as I thought. It seems, my memory is wrong.

[remi]

I've found this statement from Charles. But it seems, it's not implemented, yet.

Regards,
Remi