Wierd bug

Hiddicop · Post by **Hiddicop** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:31 pm

This i a curved line with a thingy on one end. All of it is a shape.

Now I add a line between two of the points, and WHOA! what happens?

I must say that I can't see the reason for this, so it's probably a bug. I'm using moho 5.0.8 in Windows 98, if that helps.

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:10 am

Sorry, I can't see your pictures. It tells me "The image cannot be displayed because it contains errors."

Hiddicop · Post by **Hiddicop** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:35 am

Sorry, I can't see your pictures. It tells me "The image cannot be displayed because it contains errors."

That's odd... It works for me. But now I re-uploaded the pictures. Hope it works now.

Agent · Post by **Agent** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:40 am

same prob

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:57 am

Interesting. What you've done is found a roundabout way to create an "illegal" shape. Try this: select the final weird shape and delete it. Now, select all the points and try to create a shape - Moho will only allow you to create an outline, not a fill.

This is because the filled shape is "illegal" - it has undefined boundaries. It seems clear to us what parts should be filled, but to Moho it's not at all clear. So, when you try to fill the shape, Moho just won't let you.

However, by first creating a legal, filled shape, and then modifying it to make it illegal, you found a sort of "loophole" that lets you create invalid shapes.

During beta testing for Moho 5, we tried out a feature where illegal shapes like these would be automatically deleted. However, this seemed really confusing to users. I'm not sure what the best solution is - I gues just "don't do that".