[thelist] Problem creating a style in Fireworks

[John Dowdell]

At 10:05 AM 12/22/1, Bob Boisvert wrote:
> This particular style I'm trying to create now is more complex using
> strokes and effects to give the appearance of the colored portion of
> the eye.  For some reason I won't save as a style.  Does anybody
> have an idea why?

I'm not sure what's precisely different from expectation there, but your
mention of "stroke" makes me wonder if you're trying to put an actual curve
in a style, which won't work... Fireworks can use any combination of fill
type & color, stroke type & color, Live Effect and text attributes, but it
doesn't really hold a curve so much as apply attributes to a curve. To hold
an actual shape we'd use a symbol, a library element.

Hmm, you might have one of those categories disabled from the "New Style"
dialog box, but I'm really grasping at straws here trying to guess the
problem, sorry.

How do you do on the one-or-all-styles test? If you can never create *any*
style now then that points to a different type of cause than if it's this
one particular thingy which isn't acting as expected. This may be the
fastest way to move forward again...?

jd






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