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3. Onscreen Fundamentals

In this section will be briefly described the Icon Editor user interface.

The Icon Editor window is separated in four areas: main toolbar, tools toolbar grid and statusbar.

3.1 Main toolbar

New File

Create a new ikon. If the current file has been modified you will be asked if you want to save the changes. After that a dialog will open where you can choose to create the ikon from scratch or from a template (templates requires kdelibs > 1.0).

Open

Open an existing icon file.

Save

Save the currently open icon.

Print

Print the icon

Cut

Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

Copy

Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

Paste

Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Resize

Resize icon to width X height (req. kdelibs > 1.0)

Gray scale

Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the KDE icon palette.

Zoom in

Zoom out

Zoom factor

Zoom to predefined zoom factor.

Toggle grid

Toggle grid on/off.

New Icon Editor

Open a new Icon Editor window.

3.2 Tools toolbar

This toolbar contains the tools you can use to manipulate the icon.

Find color

Doesn't change the icon but changes the current drawcolor to the color clicked on.

Freehand

Draw free hand.

Select

Select (mark) a part of the icon.

Line

Draw a line.

Rectangle

Draw a rectangle.

Filled rectangle

Draw a filled rectangle.

Circle

Draw a circle.

Filled circle

Draw a filled circle.

Ellipse

Filled ellipse

Almost the same as drawing a circle.

Spray

Draws a randow dotted pattern like a spraycan.

Flood fill

Fill an area with the current color..

Eraser

Draw transparent (invisible).

3.3 Grid

The grid is where you manipulate the icon contents.

3.4 Statusbar

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