#IconEd gobbles R.E.
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Is there any way to get the Icon Editor to save icons smaller than the
maximum icon size? Or do I need a 3d party icon-editor, and are there
any?
Thanks in advance
Paul
Paul,
What is the problem?
Try changing the Highlight menu option from Image to Backfill or
Complement. I have found you can save as small as a single pixel sized
icon. The border shrinks to fit around it.
Chris
Hmmm… I'm not sure what's going on. It still saves brushes I load in
as maximum size icons. Anything else is fine.
Paul
I use IconLab in conjunction with DPaint. I create the icons images
(selected and non-selected) in DPaint, then cut them out as brushes
and save 'em. Then I use IconLab (it's old but it runs on a 1200) to
combine oops, convert the two brushes to icons then combine the two
icons into a single dual-image icon. The process could be a bit
simpler but what I've described works well for me.
That sounds workable, but how can I get hold of IconLab? Is it pd or
shareware, or commercial (sounds like pd). My main problem with the
DPaint/IconEdit solution is not the real estate gobbling – that's
mysteriously vanished – but the fact that DPaint seems to handle
colors/registers differently than IconEdit/WorkBench. IconEdit will
sometimes even lose the black from a brush that multiview shows perfectly
well. And 4 or 8 color brushes saved from DPaint sometimes have other,
higher register colors in place of them on the WorkBench. Do you have any
idea what's going on? I don't.
Thanks
Paul