FTV Studio ME Line Style

[AMarks95]

When I create a line in FTV Studio ME (v13 CPR9 SR13 - Patch 17 Build 413) and try to change the line style to anything but "Solid" it just changes itself back.

Why? How do I get a dashed line then (other than drawing a bunch of individual lines)?

 

[Operaghost]

The line width must be "1" for anything other than solid. I did see something that was weird, but it won't do it again.

It seemed as though I had the width at "1" and set it to dash, and then I would hit Apply and it would revert to Solid. I changed it to Dot and it worked. And now it doesn't repeat that same behavior. It just works as expected. So now I am questioning if it was really acting that way.

OG

 

[MikeyN]

I was able to replicate it OG. If you change the line width to anything other than 1, it will force it back to solid. If you change the line width back to 1 and attempt to change the line style before applying the changes, it still forces the solid line style. Once you apply the line width of 1, you can change to dashes and dots again.

 

[AMarks95]

Another amazing feature! You can only change the style of lines that are so thin that changing the style is not even noticeable!

 

[Operaghost]

I was able to replicate it OG. If you change the line width to anything other than 1, it will force it back to solid. If you change the line width back to 1 and attempt to change the line style before applying the changes, it still forces the solid line style. Once you apply the line width of 1, you can change to dashes and dots again.

The odd behavior I was seeing was that I did have the line width at 1 (applied) and changed the style to dash and then hit Apply and it went back to solid. Once I changed to Dot it worked. I could then select Dash as well and apply it. It won't do it. Once you change the width to greater than 1, it reverts back to solid immediately. No Apply needed. I'm debating reverting my VMware snapshot to see if it does it again.

And to be fair, it is documented in the Help that the width can only be 1.

OG

 

[AMarks95]

And to be fair, it is documented in the Help that the width can only be 1.

OG

That's just ridiculous

 

[Operaghost]

That's just ridiculous

Not that big of a deal to me. If I need it, I can draw my own dashed line in about 20 seconds. I've used the software since it was first released and this just never came up.

OG