@marce I will try to find out what can cause this

@shomnipotence That looks awesome

@Boldline This is a great idea about collecting tips and tricks on this topic. And I really do hope that you are able to make some videos on these tools specifically. If I recall you have been central to bringing about things like the Bezigon tool. I remember really liking it in Freehand but so far it doesn't click for me in VS. Maybe it's that after creating the curves they are normal Bezier handles instead of staying the type of automatic curving that the Freehand version created.

@VectorStyler said in Expand Group Opacity question shows no difference: @William-Kansepa For some settings changes you may need to reopen the document (and for others, restart the app) I think that could be the reason why it was refusing to work. Maybe an indication to mark that a certain setting requires a restart after editing it? Other software have an asterisk to indicate restart.

@macos Will be added

@debraspicher The only problem is that it should change the selected node position, not the opposite one. Il will fix this.

@Harry Not sure if all can be included in this way There is also the issue of being tool specific. For example completing drawing makes sense only when in a drawing tool that uses multiple clicks. I see what can be added

I haven't restarted VS as yet and the panels keep on expanding... These are the results: [image: 1778071646134-stretched-panels-02.jpg]

@Li-Xiao I will add this to the features backlog. It is doable, but I have to think how to have this in the UI

@VectorStyler Can confirm the symbol expansion issue is fixed now. Yay!

@shomnipotence said in What framework does Visual Studio's UI use? Does it include default maximize, minimize, and close buttons?: Is it possible to embed the native three main items into the top right corner? Or use a Win32 title bar (which would mean a separate menu bar). Is is possible to use the Windows title bar, but it looks awful for this UI. There are a number of other apps that added custom icons for this (Affinity, Spotify, etc).

@VectorStyler There’s a feature in Inkscape that should work perfectly for this scenario. After clicking and holding a node, scroll the mouse wheel upward to select adjacent nodes and keep extending the selection along that direction. Scroll downward, and it will select nodes in the opposite direction. The selection stops right at the node where you leave the mouse wheel, which should greatly streamline this operation

@VectorStyler Good. Yet I couldn't replicate your solution without selecting Separate Path also ... [image: 1778231945240-5eea44f3-a761-469d-a376-1f5f6da41e9e-image.png]

@VectorStyler Ah, great. Got it. Update with a note: One have to check for conflicting shortkeys already set for other operations. Else it won't work. [image: 1778230120509-ee388d5e-42b9-4386-bcc5-a7e4371723f9-image.png]

@VectorStyler On the hill, but it is just a random font, no matter which one I'm using.

@VectorStyler Please see the image.![image: 1778159080437-001-resized.png]

@vectorstyler FWIW, this plugin is open source so would be easy enough to check out what exactly it looks for: https://github.com/yanone/speedpunk/

@Boldline There is an "Ignore While" option in the trace panel menu. If enabled it turns these white regions into transparent. In this case it should be disabled. Also: the backdrop in the image is not a clear white tone, it has a noise with a small intensity

@William-Kansepa said in update 1.3.015: Am getting same result whether the option is checked or unchecked. I will test this more. The option name should be "Allow Ungrouping of Clipping Groups"

@William-Kansepa yes, wrong text resource. will be fixed.