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- <h2>Shape Tools</h2>
- <p>The following tools are similar, and will be discussed in this topic:</p>
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- <li class="nobullet"><img border="0" src="Images/ShapeTools.png"><br>
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- <li>Rectangle</li>
- <li>Rounded Rectangle</li>
- <li>Ellipse</li>
- <li>Freeform Shape</li>
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- <p>Each of these tools may be configured using the
- <a href="Toolbar.html#DrawingControls">controls in the Toolbar</a>. To draw
- a shape, click and drag with the left mouse button. The primary color will
- be used for the outline (if applicable), and the secondary color will be
- used to fill the interior of the shape (if applicable). If you draw with the
- right mouse button, the roles of the primary and secondary colors will be
- reversed.</p>
- <p>For the first three tools, you may hold down the Shift key to constrain
- the shape to be a square, rounded square, or a circle, respectively.</p>
- <p>The following images show how shapes look when the appropriate
- shape-drawing option in the toolbar is selected:</p>
- <h3>Outline only:</h3>
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- <img border="0" src="../images/Shapes_Outline.png" width="536" height="142"></h3>
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- <img border="0" src="../images/InteriorOnly.png"></h3>
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- <img border="0" src="../images/Shapes_Interior.png" width="536" height="142"></h3>
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- <img border="0" src="../images/InteriorAndOutline.png"></h3>
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