How to draw a (half) circle line + arrow?

[pstein]

I want to draw a circle line with an arrow at one end.

The "circle arrow" should not be a full circle but only 180 deg

It should not be drawn freehand or via bezier curve method.
It should not be an ellipse but a "normal" circle.

I want to activate somehow a circle line mode, then click on a starting point and drag the mouse to the end point.
After mouse release the line should be drawn by PSP.

How can I achieve this?

[LeviFiction]

I don't know of a direct method but here is how I would do it.

I am not at my computer so I cannot verify these steps but they should work.

1) Grab Ellipse Tool
2) set Line style to a line with an arrow end point.
3) Set mode to circle.
4) drag out the circle (adjust size to how wide you want to circle to be
5) in the top menu select Objects -> Convert to Path
6) Grab the Pen Tool
7) select one node on the circle
8) Delete Node

The end result should be a half circle with an arrow at the end.

[Jean-Luc]

The end result should be a half circle with an arrow at the end.

... and you could save it as a predefined shape.

[pstein]

I don't know of a direct method but here is how I would do it.

I am not at my computer so I cannot verify these steps but they should work.

1) Grab Ellipse Tool
2) set Line style to a line with an arrow end point.
3) Set mode to circle.
4) drag out the circle (adjust size to how wide you want to circle to be
5) in the top menu select Objects -> Convert to Path
6) Grab the Pen Tool
7) select one node on the circle
Delete Node

The end result should be a half circle with an arrow at the end.

Great! it works.

An additional question:

The circle I draw consists of 4 nodes.
How can I insert a new node on the circle line at lets say 210 deg (and merge it into the circle node chain)?

[LeviFiction]

With the pen tool, after you've converted the circle to a path, hold the CTRL key and hover over the path line. The cursor will become a "+" symbol on a squiggle line to indicate adding a node (if the cursor doesn't change try just clicking on the line while holding CTRL anyway). PSP will attempt to add the node in seamlessly with the path.