eraser in Activinspire

[lappelbaum]

I am on a Mac with version of inspire 1.1.11426 (March, 2009).

I used the pen to write some text, which is placed on the top layer.
I moved the text to the middle layer.
I used the eraser ... I was able to erase the text.

I thought, based on my reading of the documentation, that the eraser only works for top-level annotations.

Thanks.

Lee

[ande095]

In the "ActivInspire in the ActivClassroom" pdf, I read the following information.

"Eraser Tool
The Eraser Tool has been significantly changed in ActivInspire. The tool now deletes annotations. The Eraser Tool applies only to Annotation Objects. Annotations are deleted by the Eraser regardless of the layer properties of the object.

Magic Ink
Magic Ink is the way ActivInspire has incorprated the ActivStudio eraser. The information in Activclassroom Module 1 applicable to the Eraser is now transferred to mean Magic Ink."

In flipcharts created in Studio that had an action button that called the Eraser tool now call the magic Ink tool instead.

It seems to me that the magic ink can only see through objects on the top layer - like the eraser used to. I like the separation of the functions!

The document is an update for the 5 modules in the Instructor's guide.

Bonnie

[lappelbaum]

Thanks. I did not see this document.

Lee

[dbolyard]

I am very happy about the changes in this area as well. However, now that the eraser actually deletes annotations (love it!), I have encountered something strange:

If you color something in with the highlighter tool, without lifting the pen (or mouse) from the flipchart, you get one object, able to be manipulated as such. If you then choose to use the eraser tool on that object, it is broken up into several objects--as if each stroke, even though you never lifted the pen, is an individual object. You no longer have just one object. If you want to erase just a small section of what you've colored (rare situation, I realize), you cannot do so without ruining the coloring.

This came about because I was attending a training last week and was instructed to create a cloud on a flipchart. I chose the highlighter tool to color a cloud onto my flipchart. I never lifted the mouse button as I happily shaded my cloud:rolleyes:. Then, as I was playing with the flipchart page, I decided to erase part of my cloud for some reason:confused:. What happened next (described above) led me to undo and keep my cloud just as it was:D.

[Nigel Pearce]

...it is broken up into several objects

Correct. The Eraser has been designed to effectively cut pieces out of annotations. What is left behind are the individual, unconnected pieces, ie new ,separate annotations.

[alydon]

I must admit when this happens and I try to erase in this manner in inspire- I crash the machine.:mad: