Phil, Nope! but I'll write one for ya! 1. In your drawing, highlight the icon. 2. Go to "save as" and save as an emf (Enhanced Metafile). Save this file into your wug directory for ease of use. 3. Go to "configure" in WUG and choose "Device Types" 4. Choose "new" 5. Give it a description. If you are really fancy, fill in the sys oid, etc.. 6. Now, in your custom devices, you will have this wonderful new icon to use. 7. Have a beer. If I happen to be there, buy me one.
Hope this helps! If you do a lot of these, please post them on wugportal.com so we can all enjoy! Oh yeah...if the icons a square they work better. Rectangular ones end up looking ugly! Regards, Mike Krygeris Somix Technologies, INC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Iovino Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons Is there a guide on how to make/convert/import Visio icons to WUG? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anthony Valuikas > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons > > > For those of you who don't know the old versions it would > have a green device then yellow then red... Just the device > icon not a background shape. > > To each his/her own I guess.. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Anthony Valuikas > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons > > > Second that.. ! > > I played with the vector editor... Something better and I > would crank them out... You know I even suggested that they > push it out to the folks that took the Visio Stencils over... > They could really make it happen.... > > Time for a format change I think... > > Also they need to go back to the colored icons like it was in > version 5 and not the background color/shape for the icons > like it is now. When you have a lot of device on a map the > way it is now cuts down on the usable space not to mention > version 5 looked more professional. > > > Tv > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Burks, Jon > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons > > > Although device icons are more cosmetic in nature than > functional, you would think after several versions IPSwitch > could get someone to create a new set of icons for standard > things as firewalls, routers, switches, SQL cluster, Exchange > cluster, web server, vpn appliance, Unix server, Linux Server, etc. > > These device types have not changed much since version 3.x > and the Vector Device editor tool used to modify or create > them leave a lot to be desired, that is why we have to resort > to using Visio or other 3rd party tools (picture 2 > icon/bitmap converters). Others have gone as far as posting > new custom icons on the WUG portal to share with us. This is > great, but ... > > Come on IPSwitch, I know you have developers that probably > have in their spare time or are willing to knock down some of > the low hanging fruit. > > Perhaps this is not a high priority for them like Instant > Messaging, but I for one would be willing to pay a little bit > more for this in the next version (9). > > Are you listening to your customers? > > Add this to the wish list pile. > > Thanks. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons > > > Visio works good. I used it to convert over a bunch of Cisco > icons. You can do whatever you want and then "save as" in > .emf format. The only catch is that if the artwork is not > square then WhatsUp will distort the aspect ratio to make it > square, which won't look too good in most cases. But it's > real easy to get around this by just enclosing everything > inside an invisible square box before you save it. I'm > attaching the Cisco icons for whoever might like them. And > Cisco has the full original set on their web site too. > > If you don't have Visio, there is a free program called EVE > <http://www.goosee.com/index.shtml> that might work, and if > you're looking for just a plain viewer, try here: > <http://www.siliconwold.com/emfview/index.htm?sl> Anything > that can work with .emf files should be good. > > Hope that helps, > > Robert Kent > Network Technician > University of Connecticut > > > > > > > > > > > > "Debella, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 07/30/2003 10:12 AM > Please respond to WhatsUp_Forum > > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons > > > Anyone written or know about a good tool for creating icons > for WUG? I have found the vector editing tool severely > lacking. Anyone had any luck maybe using Fireworks or PS? > > Thanks! > > Chris DeBella > Sr. Network Engineer > CCLD, Inc. > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. 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