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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Basic Drawing Tasks

This section describes how to create and edit an icon and how to use the Icon Editor drawing tools.

To Open an Existing Icon

  1. Choose Open from the File menu.

    If you have unsaved changes, Icon Editor warns you that your changes will be lost by loading another icon. Click Cancel to cancel the Open command. Click OK if you don't want to save your changes.

  2. Type the name of the file you want to load in the Enter file name field, or select the icon file you want to load from the Files section of the Open File dialog box.

  3. Click Save.

    Note -

    When you load a file, the Output Format (in the Options menu) is automatically set to the format of the file you load.

    You can also open an existing icon by double-clicking the icon file in File Manager.

To Start a New Icon

    Choose New from the File menu.

If you have unsaved changes, Icon Editor warns you that your changes will be lost by starting a new icon. Click Cancel to cancel the New command or click OK if you don't want to save your changes.

Icon Editor clears the work area and resizes it to the default size (32x32).

If you have an icon already loaded, you can choose Clear Icon from the Edit menu to start a new icon with the same size and name as the previously loaded icon.

To Clear an Icon

  1. Save your current icon, if necessary.

  2. Choose Clear Icon from the Edit menu.

    The entire icon drawing work area is cleared.

To Draw an Image

  1. Select one of the drawing tools (listed in Table 13-2).

  2. Select a color (static color, static gray, or a dynamic color).

  3. Begin drawing with the tool you've selected.

    More details on drawing with each tool are provided below.

Drawing Tools

The drawing tools area of Icon Editor is shown in Figure 13-2.

Figure 13-2 Icon Editor drawing tools

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Table 13-2 Using the Drawing Tools

Tool 

Purpose 

Action 

Pencil 

For drawing freehand lines and individual pixels. 

Press and hold to draw freehand lines. 

Line 

For drawing straight lines. 

Press and hold to stretch the line. Release to draw the line. 

Rectangle 

For drawing solid or outlined rectangles. 

Press and hold to stretch the outline of the rectangle. Release to draw the rectangle. 

Circle 

For drawing solid or outlined circles. 

Point to where you want the center of the circle, press and hold, drag to the desired size, and release.  

Eraser 

For erasing large areas of the image. 

Press and hold; then drag over the area to erase. 

To erase individual pixels, select the Pencil tool and the Transparent color. 

Flood 

For flooding a region of one color with the selected color.  

Click any pixel within the region to be flooded. The selected pixel and all adjacent pixels of the same color are recolored with the selected color. The filled region extends in all directions, bounded only by pixels of a different color.  

Open Polygon 

For drawing connected straight lines. 

Click the starting point; then click for each segment. 

Double-click to end the last segment.  

Closed Polygon 

For drawing connected straight lines, where the first line and last line are connected to form a closed polygon. 

Click the starting point; then click for each segment. 

Double-click to end the last segment. 

Ellipse 

For drawing solid or outlined ovals. 

Press and hold, drag to the desired size and shape, and release. 

Selection 

For selecting an area to work on. Several commands in the Edit menu require an area to be selected. 

Point to the corner pixel of the region to be selected, press and hold, drag to the desired region, and release.  

Fill Solids 

For changing the rectangle, circle, ellipse, and closed polygon tools to draw filled-in shapes instead of outlines.

Select the check box to automatically draw filled-in shapes. Deselect the check box to return the tools to drawing outlines. 

To Undo a Drawing Operation

    Choose Undo from the Edit menu.

Only the single, most recent change can be undone.