While Lace 8 is being talked about, can I just say that one of my students bought it during the summer and asked me to show her a few tricks. Â Being now quite au fait with RXP I thought I can cope with that. Â
I was able to show her all the basics she needed to get her confidence but I tried my hardest to find out how to open the tool bars around the screen that I am used to, as they are so convenient, but couldn't.  Speaking to Ian (Mr Ilsoft) at Solihull he confirmed that this can't be done with Lace 8.  Personally I found it very irritating to keep having to go up to the top tool bar when I am used to being able to drag the appropriate bars close-handy to where I am working.  The other thing I don't like/need is that the roseground now comes complete with holes in the way that only spiders did (those of you who use RXP will understand what I mean).  As I more often than not put roseground in as an afterthought to fill odd spaces in ground, these extra holes are superfluous (and yes, I do know how to remove duplicate holes). The only other thing I know of is that I understand Ian has reinstated the redo button, which I had asked him to do in an RXP update as it was in Lace 2000, but he never got around to it.  This is useful if you have inked in a whole length of trail then make a mistake.  If you click 'undo' it deletes the whole trail!  But over the years I have been using it I have learnt to resist the temptation and go for 'item select' 'delete' instead so this is no longer an issue with me.  Can any of you who have tried both tell me why I should be using the newer version, please.  I think I might be missing something important but can't see what.  Jacquie in Lincolnshire Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- >From Janice Blair <[email protected]> Date: 31/12/2013 16:04 (GMT+00:00) To lace <[email protected]> Subject [lace] Lace8 videos I want to send a public thank you to Jenny Brandis for working on her Lace8 tutorial videos over the holidays. �She makes it simple to understand, even for someone so computer handicapped like me. �If you have Lace8, check out her list of videos at�http://www.brandis.com.au/Video/index.html I am using Lace8 on my MacBook Pro through an application called VirtualBox, set up for me by my SIL years ago. �Sometimes I have trouble doing things, maybe because Lace8 is written as a Microsoft program. �Jenny's videos helped me find the shortcuts. �I just tried two things, resizing the background and zooming in and out, which used to take me ages to figure out as I do not use the program on a regular basis, and I could do them quickly. It is wonderful to have such lace friends all around the world who can help with lace problems and she does so much for our Arachne exchanges. �Thank you Jenny, and I wish you and everyone on Arachne a Happy New Year. Janice � Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA where it is going to snow again later so our NY celebrations will be done at home after dinner at a local restaurant. www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
