How to bend the leg line between two controls
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Occasionally, you want the course leg line between two controls to bend, for example to avoid an out-of-bounds area.

    1. Select the course leg by clicking the mouse on the leg line.  The leg line now appears in red color, and the end points appear as small black rectangles (handles).
    2. Add a point to the line by first selecting the Insert Point tool on the Course Edit Tools Toolbar, then click on the course leg where you want to insert the point.
    3. A black rectangle appears on the course leg to indicate a corner point. 


You can now move the point along the course leg line by dragging it with the mouse, but you cannot drag it away from the straight line.  Condes blocks you from dragging the point away from the straight line to ensure that if you move the end points of a gap in a leg line, this will not bend the line.

So to be able to bend the line, you need to use the Ctrl key on the keyboard.

    1. Press and hold the Ctrl key while dragging the point to the location where you want the bend.


The appearance of a course leg can either be

    1. common for all courses, or
    2. specific to a given course

In the former case, Condes remembers that you want the leg to bend between the leg's two endpoint controls.  Condes draws that course leg the same way for all courses that use the leg.

If you want the leg to be specific to a given course (the latter case), you can double click on the leg line, and in the dialog box that pops up, you can choose that the leg should be specific to the selected course.   This can be useful, for example if a leg goes straight through a control later on this particular course and therefore needs to be cut or bent only on this course.