Hello -

What I want is two horizontal parallel lines of the same length, one vertically above the other, connected at the
ends with two vertical parallel lines of the same length, thus tracing a rectangle. I would have thought the route
to this appearance would be via the rectangle object.

I managed to make the palette appear, but the manoeuvres you recommend have no effect. Thank you for trying to help me, though.

Regards

John S.

On 07/03/2016 18:05, Arlo Barnes wrote:

Can you describe a little more what you want in the end? Right now it sounds like you want the outline of a rectangle with nothing in the inside. That can be achieved by setting the stroke to a colour and the fill to nothing, which can be accomplished in the bottom left corner of the screen (there are a row of squares of different colours plus a white one with a red X through it signaling no colour, which can be clicked on to set the fill of a selected object or shift-clicked to set the stroke, the results of which will be shown on the object and also on two other rectangles in the bottom left) or by using the window brought up by pressing the key combo Control-Shift-F.
-Arlo James Barnes
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