Dragging to Scale and Maintain Uniform Line Weight?

Is there any way to scale an object by dragging it and maintain a uniform line weight?
Thanks.

A Scale Strokes and Effects command is provided, but hidden away in two locations: Preferences and the flyout menu of the Transform Palette.
JET

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Thanks in advance for the support.
Charles

Wow, I knew I was mostly new to this, but I didn't think it was this bad. I say this because there's not a word in two I know the meaning of in your answer ^^
I do however have ideas about this :
1) So the line tool essentially creates a fully painted layer, but then masks it with a vector mask, and that mask has a hard time updating itself ?
2) Stroke feature ? I'll look around for this one and see what this yields.
3) Now, open or closed paths, what does that mean ? As in, the path loops on itself and surrounds a finite portion of the canvas' plane ? And at any rate, what's a subPathItem ?
Thanks again for your concern.

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First let me apologize for posting a reply that was only suitable for advanced users. Photoshop is broad and powerful therefore has a huge learning curve. In fact I would state no one knows and uses all of Photoshop. When we first get Photoshop it intimidate us and we're very uncomfortable using it. Many thing are not intuitive there in much learning involved. After some time we begin to know something and we are able to do some thing. Learning become rapid and we start playing in Photoshop. It is very important to play with Photoshop. Playing with Photoshop and asking for help with in forums like this IMO is the best way to learn.
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I do not type or do English well so let me do some screen captures. I can not stress enough how important Black, White, Grays and Blending is when it come to image processing. Become friends with Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Luminosity blending.....
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Dear all:
I draw a continuous line segments by mouse, which starts by a left
mouse click. Then if user click on another location on the screen, it
will continuously add a line segment to the screen. This process ends
with a right mouse click. In this case, all the points are shown
in a JPanel and stored in a Vector.
My question is:
after the line is shown on the screen, how can I use mouse to drag
any points on these line segments (it does not necessary need to be
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added to the line, and original line segments' shape changed
accordingly during the mouse drag.
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Step 1: A line (containing line segments], which is drawn by mouse on the Panel:
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      * [left click]
      |
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      * [left click]
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Step 2: Drag any points in the line, this does not necessary to be
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following.
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      + [here left click a point on the line]
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Step 3: If I drag the + in above figure to left, it will become:
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regards
Stas
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
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Thanks..

Hi Bidhu,
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... I noticed that the line increases from 0.5pt to 1pt mainly (although not always) on straight lines, anything with a bezier curve seems to remain as 0.5pt.
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...I only referred to Photoshop to illustrate the behaviour - vector tools aside, everything you do in Photoshop has to be whole pixels
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