Arrowheads vanish in Decorations after stroke change

[Joachim_L]

You can use arrowheads in Decorations, but if you change the width of the stroke afterwards the arrowheads vanish (revert to none), so you have to select the arrowheads again.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Joachim_L said:

You can use arrowheads in Decorations, but if you change the width of the stroke afterwards the arrowheads vanish (revert to none), so you have to select the arrowheads again.

Interesting. I hadn't realized that was possible. And good catch about the arrowheads disappearing.

Here's another--First, the Stroke information associated with a paragraph decoration (note the direction of the arrowhead for the start of the line:

And now note the arrowhead on the actual decoration, which is reversed from what's shown in the stroke settings:

[Joachim_L]

48 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Interesting. I hadn't realized that was possible.

GarryP is to blame. Without his idea using Decorations as bullets, I would not spent time testing. I wonder if even the developers completely know what is possible.

 

[Gabe]

Hi both,

Thanks for spotting this. It is technically the same issue as this, caused by that "pop-up stroke" panel, but in a different location. 

 

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Gabe said:

It is technically the same issue as this,

Does that apply both to the loss of the arrowhead (Joachim_L's finding) as well as the directionality of the arrowheads being wrong (my finding)?

[Gabe]

I believe so. Any chance you can attach your document? I can't seem to get that at all. 

[walt.farrell]

20 minutes ago, Gabe said:

I believe so. Any chance you can attach your document? I can't seem to get that at all. 

Sure.

Decoration-arrowhead-direction.afpub

Here's what I see, with the start of the decoration having the arrowhead set:

[Gabe]

Thanks. I was looking in the wrong place. Issue logged

[AdamW]

On 1/28/2020 at 1:40 PM, walt.farrell said:

And now note the arrowhead on the actual decoration, which is reversed from what's shown in the stroke settings:

Hi Walt, 

As things stand this is to be expected. You have to imagine the stroke decoration as sides of a box drawn around the text frame.

[Joachim_L]

21 hours ago, AdamW said:

You have to imagine the stroke decoration as sides of a box drawn around the text frame.

Can't follow this logic. LOL Around means completely around. Means Start is the End and vice versa. Adam was drawing only 3/4 of the box. <- Rubbish. Sorry.

Hmm, looks strange anyway. If we use the order from this toolbar: Left line, top line, right line and bottom line. Circle as start and square as end.

We start now with the left line = Circle in the bottom left corner, square in the top left corner. Next is top line, as expected circle in the bottom left corner, square in the top right corner. Next is right line, as expected circle in the bottom left corner, square in the bottom right corner. Next is bottom line. Erm, both arrowheads are now top left corner? Why are not start and end at the bottom left corner? What is the logic behind that?