TJ Hanson wrote: > I need to design icons for several programs. There appears to be a > substantial amount of icon editors out there. Is there any consensus > among RB developers for the best way to develop icons? Will icons > developed for the Mac environment work with Windows when a program is > compiled to run on Windows?
To answer your first question, icons will work for both the Mac and Windows environment. There are two parts to creating an icon. The first is to create the actual image and the second part is to create a mask for the icon. There are a lot of icon editors and other programs such as Photoshop for creating the actual image. There are also image libraries available that allow you instantly get an image for icons. The tedious part of creating an icon is creating a proper mask. Without a proper mask, even the very best icon images will look jagged on the edges. I wrote a program called "Mask-R-Aid" which is designed to create proper masks. In general, it is the only program I use for icon creation. If you have a 128x128 pixel image of your icon, you can use Mask-R-Aid to create all the smaller size icons and masks instantly by simply drag and dropping the image on the 128x128 image slot. With Mask-R-Aid icon creation went from a pain in the butt to a simple one step operation. Mask-R-Aid will save you a whole lot of time and effort. URL: http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Mask_R_Aid/maskraid.html _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
