Changing elements colors

[zyx]

Hello all,

    Again I apologize for my bad english.

    How can I change the color of the elements? I can select one or more elements in a diagram, click with the right bottom and select appearance -> default appearance, but I don't want to do it to each diagram. I can't discover how to do it in the tools -> options. Someone can help me?

    Another question? How can I take off the "tab" in the images generated? I mean the tab containing the diagram type and its titlle.

[qwerty]

Use the painter. The toolbar on top of the diagram frame has coloring/style elements you can apply to selected elements. It's also in the top right brush icon that appears when selecting single or multiple elements.

Check Tools/Options/Diagram/Diagram Frame (middle right)

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[zyx]

OK, but it will serve only for one diagram, right? I want to configure for all diagrams once for all. How can I do it?

[qwerty]

You can save a painter set where you read Default Style by using a different name and Save it. Then you can apply that with the painter. It's a bit tricky to use (like some features in EA).

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[zyx]

Thank you for the help, but I remenber that in previous versions I could configure the colors in the Tools -> Options but now I can not... It is not possible to configure the colors there anymore? I think I am making something wrong or I am not making something...

And there is some way to take off the tab of the diagram?

[qwerty]

Colors can be customized somewhere in the options (good luck with searching them). The toolbar can be hidden by the dbl-arrow top right of the diagram (near then tiny X and the little triangle). We love EA for its UI, don't we?

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[RoyC]

You can change the color of all elements or elements of a type, using Tools | Options > Diagram > Standard Colors (for all elements) or Tools | Options > Diagram > Appearance: select Use Element Group Style (to apply a system-set color to all elements of each type, each element type having its own color.)

As for the frame, try Tools | Options > Diagram, and in the Diagram Frames panel click on one or more of the checkboxes to remove the tick, and hide the frame on the saved image, clipboard image and/or printed image (which is what qwerty was telling you.)

There are other options for changing element color/appearance, so if the Tools | Options dialog does not do what you want, post again and we will try those other things.