Custom brush - how to make it flow smooth?

[scriptster]

Hello everyone,

Love Xara X but some of the features I cannot wrap my mind around

I'm trying to create a (very simple?) custom brush: just a colored line with a narrow white strip across it every 25-30 widths (2 pix wide white strip every 50 pixels of the line's length).

This is how I'm trying to do it:

• create a 50px by 2px rectangle for the colored line
• group a 2px by 2px rectangle for white strip
• create a custom brush from the group

Attached is a sample of what I'm getting. The lines are all straight, and the ends are all separated. However, I want to be able to draw smooth lines with considerable curvature. I also need the line to be scalable if possible.

On the other hand, in the custom brushes shipped with Xara X there is the phone cord looking like line that does exactly what I need - it curves well and it is scalable.

Can someone please give any hints about making a custom brush like that?

Thanks a lot!

D~