Lost Lost Lost!!!

[paintitforme]

I created a flag last night in inkscape as directed by the inkscape manual to get use to some of the features. All went fine. I am back in inkscape tonight and things look different. I am trying to do something as simple as drag a create a circle in the center of the mat and the cursor no longer drags -- it creates little boxes and circles every time I release my mouse as I am TRYING to drag. Did I change settings last night or something when I did the walk through tutorial. I am very very new (like this week) to inkscape and scal.

[firstcut]

Relax, paintit, we've all been there Be sure you have the selection tool (firsat arrow at top of tool bar) active when you want to drag. If you have a shape tool active it will draw new shapes instead.

[paintitforme]

Oooohhhhh!!!! I am just so excited about the possibilities of SCAL and Inkscape. I love to scrapbook and have always been restricted to the shapes on my limited number of cricut cartridges. I feel like I am learning so much by watching all the tutorials and then I get stumped on something soooooo simple. Thank you for your time -- I will keep exploring Inkscape and learn as much as I can!!!!

[judyjo]

I am having a similar problem tonight. My circle tool won't work either. I have been working with some tutorials on creating spirals and the circle tool worked earlier today but now it doesn't. Is there any hope for me?

[judyjo]

Yeaaaaaah........my circle tool is working again...I just changed some settings at the top just above the arrow.

[missiethegal]

I am having a similar problem tonight. My circle tool won't work either. I have been working with some tutorials on creating spirals and the circle tool worked earlier today but now it doesn't. Is there any hope for me?

Try going to "view">"Display mode">"outline" and see if you have any circles or can make any circles that way.

[judyjo]

Thank you missiethegal for your quick response. Somehow I was able to fix it very quickly by going to the tool bar just above the selection arrow and changed some settings. I am so thrilled to have all of you very helpful people there to help me as I am attempting to learn this program.