G'day,
(Please have a look at the attached SVG, and/or screenshot and then this email might make more sense).
I was trying to draw a glassy-look button. I took two spherical buttons, and tried to replicate a rectangle in the middle with the same shading and top/bottom border.
Like this: o=o Except the rectangle (=) occluded half of each spehere (o).
One feature I really needed during this process was a "make same width" button. I zoomed in, stretching the objects to exact-as-possible with mouse movements. However this was not an *exact* sizing. One side was easy, since I could align everything left, but the opposite side was just judged best fit.
After all this, I zoomed back out to see my button rendered with two distinct lines at the edge of the rectangle (at each end). As I zoomed back in to try and work out the problem, sometimes they'd disappear at different zoom intervals.
Eventually I worked out that it's some kind of rendering error. I even hand-edited the XML to ensure the rectangular layers were in exactly the same positions and widths... I still got the problem.
Any suggestions on how to work around this? It's apparent on exported bitmaps too.
Any comments on "Make same width" / "Make same height" buttons? I think this would be cool.
thanks, -kt
PS> My apologies to the people on the list who don't like attachments. I tried to make them as small as possible.
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