icon format

Forum: Apps
Topic: icon format
started by: b1ackmai1er

Posted by b1ackmai1er on Sep. 05 2007,15:58

Hi,

I want to create an icon for my extension but cannot find the icon format.

Anyone help me out?

Thanks Phil

Posted by lucky13 on Sep. 05 2007,16:08

I think Robert wants to standardize things with 32x32 xpm for dfm compatibility.

Posted by b1ackmai1er on Sep. 05 2007,16:45

TA,

Yes I did a search on v4rc3 and they area all 32x32.

Now to test my artistic abilities.

cheers Phil

Posted by roberts on Sep. 05 2007,20:42

Yes, indeed, xpm 32x32. And prefer low color so that way the older less capable machines can display icons and with the huge increase of icon usage we keep size down too.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 06 2007,03:50

so is there a change to the contents of user.tar.gz as a result?
I'm still using DSL 3.4, so the extensions I'm working on now have the same old structure for the moment.

XPM rocks. Not only is it small (as long as the image dimensions and color count are small), but it's also a plain text file, which means you can create/edit them in any text editor or even in a script =o)

Posted by roberts on Sep. 06 2007,04:21

I have been hand editing many of the icons I currently have in 4.0 with good ole vi !

Also editing the background to be transparent as I find one that are not.

So, yes, xpm tiny byte size just right for DSL.