No Matching Drawing Tool Error in Annual 115

Breschau of Livonia

Hey all -

For whatever reason when I use Annual 115 I get a "No Matching Drawing Tool" error whenever I try to bring up any drawing tool - or ask for a list of all of them.

I don't believe it is a problem with my setup as I tried a Herwin Wielink overland map and the drawing tools worked as expected. I experienced this when I opened the sample Southern Marapia map from Annual 115 as well - the map displays just fine but drawing tools do not work.

CC3+ version 3.72, Microsoft Surface Book running Windows 10.

jgvaughan

I am experiencing the same issue with Annual 115 but when using any other style I don't get the error.

Dogtag

I can also reproduce this, with a new map. The symbols and coast drawing tools appear to display in the symbol catalog but clicking anything produces the error. Even right-clicking the Drawing Tools button to bring up the menu produces the error instead.

Barliman

FWIW, I'm getting the same error. I've attached a screen grab of one such message.

shadowblade

I, too, am having the same problem.

Ralf

Oh yes, an error slipped into the installation, leaving out the drawing tools folder. It's fixed now, please re-download the July issue from your registration page and install it again. Sorry for that!

Dogtag

That did the trick. Thanks for taking care of this issue over the weekend, Ralf. ("Issue," get it? *rimshot*)



Cheers,
~Dogtag

Shessar

@Dogtag, ROFL. Great map of the weekend. Heheh.

Thanks for the fix Ralf!

Barliman

That seems to have fixed things. Thanks, Ralf!

Barliman

@Dogtag - Good work on the map, made me laugh out loud.

JimP

I was kinda expecting Ralf to take advantage of the US holiday and take a well deserved break from us.

But thanks for working on this.

Ralf

Psst... I'm on holiday this week, so I really had to take care of it before I'm away.

Loopysue

Have an excellent time... and leave all your troubles behind!

Dogtag

Posted By: RalfPsst... I'm on holiday this week, so I really had to take care of it before I'm away.

Well, then, double-thanks! Have a good time.

Lorelei

Ok, i have a stupid question.....how do you get all the multiple coast outline????

Dogtag

You should be able to get it simply by drawing your landmass. The default land tools place it on the Land sheet, which already has the Edge Striping effect set. The style is configured to include land tools in the symbols catalog, so you should be able to pick the tool directly from the catalog, without even having to open the tools dialog. If you don't use the drawing tools, manually drawing an entity on — or moving one to — the land sheet should also activate the effect.

Cheers,
~Dogtag

Lorelei

Hmmm.....that doesn't seem to be working for me. I've got the effects on and my landmass is on my land sheet. weird.

Loopysue

Sorry to butt in like this... but could it be that the thing you need to edge stripe is the coastline, rather than the land itself?

Just asking.

Lorelei

That was EXACTLY the problem, Sue! Hmmm....i wonder why the Edge Striping is on the Landmass sheet rather than the Coastline sheet in the default drawing tools?? Weird little glitch? I tried again, with a new map, used the default land and again no "woodcut". The Coastline sheet comes default with a Blur.

Loopysue

Strange.

The only reason I asked was because I had a devil of a job once trying to remove the line around the landmass in one of the Mike Schley templates, and it turned out to be on the coastline sheet all the time, and nothing to do with the land at all. (I was trying to separate the land from the line around it by moving a single node and it still stuck to the land. A very strange entity indeed, this coastline thing)

Glad it worked for you

Dogtag

I presume the Edge Striping is on the Land sheet because someone might choose to remove the coastline border yet still want the effect.

How big is your map? You may want to try editing the effect so the Effect Units uses something other than Map Units.

Posted By: LoreleiThat was EXACTLY the problem, Sue!

How did you discover that? Did you add Edge Striping to your Coastline sheet? Did it work there?

I'm curious because the default settings work just fine on my map, but I did play with the settings because my map scale is so small (only 100 mi across).

Loopysue

Posted By: DogtagHow did you discover that? Did you add Edge Striping to yourCoastlinesheet? Did it work there?

If you're asking me how I discovered the coastline thing it was a guess. If you're asking Lorelei how she did it, then I'll butt out again (cheesy grin)

Lorelei

Posted By: DogtagI presume the Edge Striping is on theLandsheet because someone might choose to remove the coastline border yet still want the effect.

How big is your map? You may want to try editing the effect so theEffect Unitsuses something other thanMap Units.

Posted By: LoreleiThat was EXACTLY the problem, Sue!

How did you discover that? Did you add Edge Striping to yourCoastlinesheet? Did it work there?

I'm curious because it works just fine on my map, but I did play with the settings because my map scale is so small (only 100 mi across).

Well....that sort of worked....now this is what i am getting, the Woodcut is on the inside AND outside but only set for inside and there is no other Edge Stripping on any other Sheet (i unchecked it on the Sea sheet)....And the Edge Stripping does NOT work on the land sheet period. Grrrr.....My map was 500x400. I tried a new map with different settings and its the same. And.....if you hide the Coastline, the Edge Stripping doesn't seem to work on the Land itself (see attached) Also, Dogtag, does your Coastline have a Blur effect as default? Also, my map border does too????

Dogtag

Yes. Coastline and Map Border have a Blur effect.

Can you post the FCW? I'm curious to see if it renders correctly on my system. Maybe there's something wonky with one of our installations. It's also strange to me that you get the edge striping on both sides of your coast border even though the properties are set to Outside. I presume the border is a fractal poly, unless you split it somewhere?

~Dogtag

Loopysue

Just for information - I can't get edge striping on either side when I have both checked. I'm not using the same template... in fact mine is totally different to yours right at this moment because of the Beta test things going on with my machine, but I still have a problem that's very similar to yours with the edge striping. One side or the other works fine on any sheet, though.

Lorelei

I created *another* map...same :/

Loopysue

Ok.

I can't see anything but red X marks because I don't have the annual, but I did notice you had edge striping on the SEA sheet as well a the LAND SHEET. Is that meant to be there? Perhaps if you switch off the SEA striping it might work?

Loopysue

Or... conversely, if you switched off the LAND striping and had the SEA striping on inside of the sea (ie away from the land), maybe that would work better.

Shessar

Something to remember when working with sheets and effects.

The checkmark denotes the current active sheet for adding objects.
The grey highlight denotes the current active effect.

Make sure that when you are checking and changing effects that the grey selection is on the sheet you want to apply effects to.

I'm not sure if this is what is happening but I do see one image above that may hint at this being a problem.

Loopysue

Good point, Shessar, It certainly confuses the hell out of me sometimes. Another thing I've noticed is that if you make a new sheet and try to add effects before you have anything on it, the effect defaults to the entire map. I've had a few frightening moments when that's happened and it took me a while to work out where it had gone to.

Shessar

Posted By: LoopysueGood point, Shessar, It certainly confuses the hell out of me sometimes. Another thing I've noticed is that if you make a new sheet and try to add effects before you have anything on it, the effect defaults to the entire map. I've had a few frightening moments when that's happened and it took me a while to work out where it had gone to.

Yep, that is one of the reasons that ProFantasy puts a single point at 0,0 on all sheets. To do this use the top menu Draw>>Point. Then 0,0 on the command line.