pencil

Designates the paint tool used to draw freehand lines in an image.

# Metadata

Platforms: desktop, server OS: mac, windows, linux Introduced: 1.0 Security:

# Syntax

pencil

# Examples

choose pencil tool

# Description

Use the pencil keyword to draw lines with the penColor.

When using the Pencil tool, the cursor is a pencil shape (over stack windows) or an arrow (anywhere else). This tool is used to draw the penColor onto an image.

If you try to paint with the pencil on a card that has no images, an image the size of the card is temporarily created to hold the painting that will disppear after changing card; an image must first be created in order to keep a painting. If the current card already has one or more images, painting outside the image has no effect.

# Tags

# See

- **keyword:** image - **property:** penColor - **command:** choose - **glossary:** keyword, paint tool