097 The Color Icon Editor
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1. routine These can be any size and contain their own color tables masks and 1 bit versions all in one resource Prior to System 7 the Mac displayed black amp white Finder icons only which were kept in resources of type ICN These consist of 64 32 bit longwords of bitmap data with the first 32 being the icon and the second being its mask System 7 introduced the notion of icon families or icon suites made up of three sizes of icons each in 1 bit 4 bit and 8 bit depths Each icon family includes masks used to punch a hole in the background to draw the icons The toolbox routine Plot IconSuite draws the appropriate member of an icon family in a variety of states In order to save space the colors in these icons are always taken from the Mac s 4 and 8 bit standard color tables The Color Icon Editor edits these icon resources ICON Standard 32 by 32 black and white 1 bit icon cicn General color icons of any size and depth ICN Large 1 bit 32 by 32 icon and large family mask ics Small 1 bit 16 by 16 pixel icon and small family mask icm Mini 1 bit 12 high by 16 wide icon and mini family mask icl8 Large color 32 by 32 pixel 8 bit pixel icon ice Large color 32 by 32 pixel 4 bit pixel icon ics8 Small color 16 by 16 pixel 8 bit pixel icon ics4 Small color 16 by 16 pixel 4 bit pixel icon icm8 Mini color 12 high by 16 wide 8 bit pixel icon icm4 Mini colo2. Lar CE Eai Fla bml kmi igs ii k a Castel Note The mask parts of the ICN ics and icm resources are broken out as if they were separate ieee gil OA black and white icons That s why the icon editor displays 12 icons for 9 resources When editing cicn color icons the gallery area z displays the dimensions of the icon and shows its oo three parts the color image the 1 bit black and TER white version if any and the 1 bit mask ee Hanh This section describes the icon editing area the snapshot list and the icon family gallery The painting tools and the palettes are described in their own sections later in this chapter Tue Icon EDITING AREA The icon editing area displays a magnified view the bits of the icon image similar to the fatbits editor in most paint programs You can make the pixels in the editing area larger by clicking the Icon Editor s zoom box or by dragging the small grow icon in the lower right corner of 100 THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR the icon editing area The number next to the grow icon tells you the magnification factor The smallest magnification factor is 6 for Finder icons but can be as low as 2 for cicn resources By default the Icon Editor shows the grid lines between the pixels The Show Icon Gridlines option in the Editor s menu which will be titled IconFamily Icon ColorIcon or ScriptIcon depending on the type of icon yo
3. changes to all of the icons in the family To help you with this Resorcerer maintains the selection when you switch to another icon of the same size in the icon family Sorcery Because the Editor does not display the selection using the fatbits themselves you can use the selection to mark an area of the icon while you continue to paint with the Pencil tool To do this make a selection and hold the Shift key down to maintain it as you select the Pencil tool You can now draw pixels within the selected area THe Eve DROPPER TOOL The eye dropper tool is available when you edit color icons When you select the eye dropper it picks up the color under the cursor and sets the foreground to that color You can use the eye dropper to pick up any color in the icon editing area or in an of the palettes Resorcerer automatically changes the cursor to the eye dropper tool when you choose a color or dither pattern from one of the patterns THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR If you hold down the Option key when you are using one of the drawing tools pencil line bucket rectangle or oval the cursor changes temporarily to the eye dropper tool so that you can choose another foreground color without interrupting your use of the current tool To switch between any other tool and the eye dropper tool press the Tab key THE Pencil TooL Use the pencil tool to draw individual pixels The color that the pencil tool draws in depends on the original color
4. Original pixel color Pencil tool draws in background color foreground color foreground color background color other color foreground color or background color depending on the preferences you set with the Preferences command in the Editors menu Holding down the Shift key constrains the pencil tool to draw either horizontally or vertically Holding down the Shift key when you initially select the Pencil tool in the tool palette keeps the current selection from being discarded when you begin using the Pencil tool to draw pixels Tue Line TooL The line tool draws a 1 pixel wide line in the foreground color Click and drag the mouse to draw a line Sorcery To change the color or pattern of the last line you drew hold down the Shift key as you choose a color or pattern from one of the palettes For example to draw a gray line every other pixel on hold down the Shift key as you choose the gray pattern from the pattern pop up palette If you are editing an 8 bit color icon and the Smooth Lines Circles amp Text option in the Editor s menu is on Resorcerer uses anti aliasing to smooth the line Note that when this option is on your icon will probably contain colors that are not part of the Apple icon color set You can repaint a just drawn line by holding the Shift key down and clicking on any of the color palettes or the dither chooser 109 RESORCERER USER MANUAL THE ERASER TOOL The eraser tool sets any pixel
5. however icons can be selected or unselected opened unavailable or off line To see what your icon looks like in these states use Try Out Desktop Samples from the IconFamily menu This command opens a window that shows your icon on a simulated desktop in all the possible states The Try Out window draws all icons using F PlotIconSuite It creates a temporary suite Veretected Selecta or partial suite of icons based on the depth of the current icon you are editing and excludes family icons from the suite if they have higher depths This lets you try out the 4 bit icons on an 8 bit screen without interference from the 8 bit icons in the suite since Plot IconSuite is paying attention to the screen depth at which the window is displayed For best results though you may want to use the Monitors Control Panel to change your screen into 4 bit mode The popup menu at the top of the window lets you see what your icon looks like when you assign different label colorings to it The patterns at the top of the simulated desktop let you see what your icon looks like on different desktops The two arrows on either side of the patterns let you scroll through the built in desktop patterns in the same way the General Control Panel does The small grow icon beneath the image of your icon in the upper left corner of the window lets you see the effect of drawing the icon in a smaller area THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR CHANGING A COLOR ICON S SI
6. out after a short amount of time While screen copying the Icon Editor replaces the mouse cursor with the standard selection marching ants marquee The size of the marquee is 1 pixel larger than the icon image rectangle or the bounding box of the selected region so that the movement of the marquee will not hide the borders of the candidate image As you move the selection rectangle around on your screen the Editor constantly copies its contents into the editing box so you can get a good idea of what the icon image will look like When you have properly placed the selection rectangle click the mouse button to make the final copy If you make a mistake you can choose Undo Before doing the screen copy you can choose Hide File Windows from the 113 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 114 File menu if you need to clear some screen space in order to see a background paint window Sorcery Initially the marquee is the same size as your icon You can enlarge the size of the marquee by clicking and dragging the mouse You can also tap the space bar to double the size of the marquee Sorcery If you hold down the Option key and the marquee is larger than the icon or the selected region in the icon the Icon Editor uses anti aliasing QuickDraw dithering to smooth the image TRYING Our Your FINDER ICONS The icon family gallery in the Icon Editor shows Family 120 mapin you what your icon looks like in its normal state In the Finder
7. that you click to the current background color Normally the eraser tool erases one pixel at a time but you can make the eraser a bit larger by Option clicking on the eraser tool To erase the entire icon double click on the eraser tool Note The eraser tool works best for erasing a small area To erase a large area use the rectangular selection tool or the lasso tool to select the region you want to erase then press the Delete key Tue Text Toou The text tool lets you place bit mapped text in the icon Since the icon area is very small you can only place a few characters into an icon To set the font font size and style use the Set Text Style command in the Resource menu or double click on the text tool Use the arrow keys to nudge the current text and insertion cursor Sorcery To change the color of the text just after you type it hold down the Shift key and choose one of the favorite colors palette or from the pop up palette If you are editing an 8 bit icon and the Smooth Lines Circles amp Text option in the Editor s menu is on Resorcerer Sy uses anti aliasing to smooth the text The advantage of anti aliasing is that it makes text at small size much more legible S y Smoothing nearly always introduces colors that are not part of the Apple icon color set These colors are to be avoided reir ual ba s TL ROTTS because the colors in a Finder icon are transformed in various ricco ways during select
8. the foreground color USING THE DITHER CHOOSER The dither chooser at the top of the Editor window lets you choose from among 65 evenly spaced dither patterns The two popups let you select the foreground and background colors that the dither pattern will interpolate for you To choose a dither pattern click and drag the mouse anywhere on the dither chooser or in the arrow area just below The dither pattern appears in the pattern popup box just above the editing tools The two colors that the dither chooser combines are independent of the standard foreground and background colors of the color palette To copy the color palette s foreground and background colors to the dither chooser click on the small up arrow on the left between the two sets of pop up boxes If the Link Dither Colors to Fore Back option in the Editor s menu is checked the color palette foreground and background colors are always copied to the dither chooser s foreground and background Sorcery Double clicking on the small up arrow between the color palette and the dither chooser is toggles this option Sorcery To apply a dither pattern to a selection or to a shape or line that you ve just drawn hold down the Shift key while you use the dither chooser or its color popups THE COLOR Icon EDITOR USING THE PAINTING TOOLS The tool palette to the left of the icon editing area contains tools that you probably recognize from most painting programs T
9. ASK An icon mask is used to erase the screen background in order to draw the icon image Sometimes just making the mask bits the same as the icon image is enough however it is usually better to avoid internal holes in the mask This makes the icon easier to see against gray or black backgrounds as well as easier for the user to select them when clicking with the mouse Under System 7 which uses the PlotIconSuite routine all large icons use the icon mask from the ICN resource all small icons use the icon mask from the ics resource and all mini icons use the icon mask from the icm resource To create an icon mask drag one of the icons into the icon mask box in the Icon Editor Although you can drag a large icon into the smaller icon you should create the mask from a finished version of the corresponding icon SCREEN COPYING You can easily copy an image directly from a background window into an icon editing box or into any selected region in an icon To do so you must be running under System 7 or under MultiFinder under System 6 if you are using another application if you have a desk accessory though you don t need MultiFinder Or you can copy from another Resorcerer window showing for instance a TEXT or PICT resource To being screen copying choose Copy from Screen from the Editor s menu To exit screen copying mode without making a screen copy press period Screen copying also times
10. Manager uses it otherwise if an ICON resource is found it is used this is for compatibility with earlier non color systems The Find Dialog Item References command which is available only in the ColorIcon menu searches through all DITL resources in the same file as the color icon you re editing and opens every dialog in which it finds an icon item with a matching resource ID The icon item is then highlighted automatically for you DECOMPILING YOUR ICONS When you ve finished designing your icon resource s the icon editor can decompile it into Rez source text placing the text directly in the clipboard so that you can switch to your development system s text editor and paste the resource declaration in your Rez source file To do this make sure that no pixels are selected in any editing box and choose Copy from the Edit menu CLOSING THE ICON When you have finished editing your icon click in the editing window s close box to close the icon This saves any changes you have made back to Resorcerer s in memory copy of your file If you don t want to save the changes you ve made since opening the icon click in the Cancel button in the lower right of the window Depending on how your preferences are set Resorcerer may confirm with you whether to save or discard your changes for more on this see the Preferences chapter later in the manual 117 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 118
11. THE COLOR ICON EDITOR INTRODUCTION This chapter explains how to use Resorcerer s Color Icon Editor to design icon images The Editor is a full color pixel level editor that lets you edit virtually any kind of Macintosh icon in 1 bit 4 bit and 8 bit color The Icon Editor edits the standard Finder icon families or suites as well as Script Keyboard icon families It also supports both black and white an color standalone icon resources as well as color patterns of up to 8 bits depth You should be familiar with general aspects of resource editing as explained in the Editing Resources chapter earlier in the manual Topics COVERED Icon resources Creating a new icon Opening an icon Using the Icon Editor Choosing colors and patterns Using the painting tools Creating an icon mask Screen copying Trying out your Finder icons Changing a color icon s size Using the Colors menu Finding Dialog Item References Decompiling your icons Closing the icon 97 RESORCERER USER MANUAL Icon RESOURCES Simple black and white icons are kept in resources of type ICON each of which consists of 32 32 bit long words of bitmap data Given the resource ID of an ICON resource the toolbox routine PlotIcon will draw the icon in a given rectangle The Dialog Manager automatically draws ICON resources for you as well General purpose color icons are kept in resources of type cicn to be drawn with the PlotCIcon
12. ZE Finder icons all have fixed sizes The large ones are 32 by 32 pixels the small ones are 16 by 16 and the minis are 12 high by 16 wide The mini icons are intended to be used in certain types of list views General color icon cicn resources can be any size Typically they should be 32 pixels by 32 pixels which is the Editor s default size for new cicn s The Menu Manager for instance does not deal well with cicn resources larger than 32 pixels on a side The size of the current color icon is always displayed above the gallery area To set the size of the color icon choose Set Size from the ColorIcon menu The Set Size dialog lets you enter any size you need cicn dimensions Width Height 43 To change the size of the sien directly in the editing dialog hold the Command key down and drag the pixel s Grow Box 3 m To drag very large editor windows click anywhere in the background EJ Scale the image Sorcery You can double click on the editing area s Grow Box to bring up the Set Size dialog Hold the key down while dragging the Editor s Grow Box to change the icon s size directly While dragging the size label above the gallery area gives you numeric feedback To select from a number of standard sizes whose dimensions are powers of 2 click on the appropriate sample in the left part of the di
13. alog These dimensions range from 8 by 8 pixels in the upper left corner of the sample array to 256 by 256 pixels in the lower right part of the sample array only partial samples are shown if one or the other dimension equals 256 When you change the icon s size you have to decide what to do with the icon s current image The Scale the image checkbox lets you choose whether to maintain the current image and possibly clip it if you are 115 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 116 decreasing the size or to scale it to the new size The sample array gives a preview of what will happen for the standard sizes Sorcery You can double click on any sample in the array to both choose it and dismiss the dialog USING THE COLORS MENU Unlike Finder icons which are always displayed using a fixed set of colors kept in standard system color tables general color icon cicn resources contain their own color tables These are usually small subsets of the standard tables When the Editor opens a cicn it analyzes the internal color table to see which standard color table the colors Standard 16 Colors appear to have come from It then edits the resource Stangard 16 Grays using the full standard table An additional Colors Pictou tolere menu makes it easy to see which table the Editor is using Remove unused colors If the colors in the icon s color table are a subset of a standard table the Editor automatically sets the Re
14. ction the part of the new selection that overlaps is subtracted from the existing selection Command If held down before clicking the mouse the selection shrinks to the smallest bounding box that contains all the selected foreground colored pixels 105 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 106 Double clicking on the rectangular selection tool selects the entire icon If you hold down the Command key as you double click on the tool Resorcerer shrinks the selection to the bounding box of the icon with respect to the background color If you ve previously made a selection with the lasso selection tool hold down the Shift key as you click on the rectangular selection tool to preserve the existing selection The All command in the Edit menu s Select submenu has the same effect as double clicking the rectangular selection tool However if only one pixel is selected the All command selects all the pixels that match the selected pixel s color and the tool changes to the lasso This special version of the All command is particularly useful when you want to change every instance of a specific color to another color Tue Lasso SELECTION TOOL The lasso selection tool lets you select an arbitrary region of pixels To use the lasso tool click and drag to enclose the pixels you want to select As with the rectangular selection tool the lasso tool draws its selection in the gridlines between pixels so that you can control precisely which pixels wi
15. ditor displays a popup palette that contains all possible colors to choose from Note In the standard 256 color pop up palette the 34 Apple colors are marked with a gray dot The small double headed arrow next to the foreground and background popup boxes lets you swap the foreground and background colors This makes it easy to use the favorite colors palette without having to use the popup palette Sorcery To apply a color to the selection or to a shape line character or bucket fill that you ve just drawn hold down the Shift key and click on any color in any palette USING THE PATTERN PALETTE The rectangle just below the foreground and background popup boxes and above the editing tools displays the current color pattern using the current foreground and background colors that the drawing and painting tools will use when 103 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 104 pouring paint or drawing the filled shapes rectangle rounded rectangle and oval When you click on the dither palette or its color popups the pattern box displays the dithered combination of the two colors and the painting tools treat the combination as a single foreground color To choose a new pattern in the standard foreground and background colors or to ia return to using the current foreground background colors after using dithered colors click on the pattern popup box The popup palette displays the standard patterns in
16. e current pixel to the average The smudger tools works on all color icons but it s really only useful for 8 bit icons Double clicking on the smudger tool toggles the Smooth Lines Circles amp Text option Note When you smudge colors in an 8 bit icon the resulting colors may not be in the Apple icon color set To see which colors are not in the Apple icon color set choose Select Non Apple Icon Colors from the Editor s menu You can then recolor the selected pixels by hand or you can use the Conform to Apple Icon Colors command to map the offending colors to the nearest Apple colors THE RECTANGLE ROUNDED RECTANGLE AND OvAL SHAPE TOOLS The shape tools let you draw filled and unfilled rectangles rounded rectangles and ovals The filled shapes draw in the current foreground color and in the current pattern The unfilled shapes are framed in the foreground color Hold down the Shift key to constrain the shapes to squares and circles Sorcery To change the color or pattern of the last shape you drew hold down the Shift key as you choose a color or pattern from one of the palettes For example to change a solid rectangle to a dithered rectangle hold down the Shift key as you select a dither pattern If you are editing an 8 bit icon and the Smooth Lines Circles amp Text option in the IconFamily menu is on Resorcerer uses anti aliasing to smooth any curves in the shape THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR CREATING AN ICON M
17. hat are not selected and unselects the pixels that are selected 107 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 108 The Rotate Clockwise Rotate Counterclockwise Mirror Right lt gt Left and Flip Top lt gt Bottom commands in the Editor s menu let you rotate and flip the selection If there is no selection these commands operate on the entire icon The Copy From Screen command lets you copy from the screen into the selection only If there is no selection this command copies from the screen into the entire icon To learn more about the Copy From Screen command see Screen Copying later in this chapter To set the color of all the pixels in the selection to a given color pattern or dithered combination hold down the Shift key and choose one of the colors in the favorite colors palette the dither chooser or the pop up palettes The color of the pixels changes as you drag the mouse over different colors To change every pixel of a particular color to another color use the rectangular selection tool or the lasso tool to select one pixel of the color that you want to change Next choose the All command from the Select submenu in the Edit menu or press A to select all the pixels of that color Then hold down the Shift key as you click and drag the mouse over one of the color palettes The color of the pixels changes as you drag the mouse over different colors As you edit an icon family you usually want to make the similar
18. he selected tool is highlighted in the tool palette Resorcerer associates a key with each tool so that you can switch from tool to tool quickly You can see which key goes with which tool by choosing the Preferences command from the Editor s menu Ifyou don t like the preset key equivalents you can change them to conform to your favorite paint program Note Be sure that each tool has a unique key assigned to it THE RECTANGULAR SELECTION TOOL The rectangular selection tool lets you select rectangular regions in the icon you are editing Resorcerer uses the standard selection marquee marching ants to show you the current selection But unlike most fatbits editors the Editor draws the selection marquee in the grid lines between pixels instead of using the pixels to show the selection which can be ambigous The rectangular selection tool works like similar tools in paint programs Each time you click and drag the mouse Resorcerer discards the previous selection if any and starts selecting a new region The Shift and Command modifier keys augment the effect of the rectangular selection tool as follows Modifier Key Effect Shift If held down after clicking the mouse the modifier constrains the selection to stay square If held down before clicking the mouse the new selection is added to the existing selection enabling you to create discontiguous selections If the new selection overlaps with the existing sele
19. he editor However before opening the entire icon family you i a can view it only when Ce j kemeran How Bate teen displaying icl8 and _teemgea None into Mew ICN resources in the Resources List Clipboard operations apply to the whole family as well only when you have selected icl8 or ICN in the Types List After selecting the icon resource you want to open in the Resources List of your File Window you can click on the Open button or double click directly on the resource entry When opening families the Editor automatically creates and adds to your file any of the nine icons that were missing If you do not click on any of them they are initially white with a gray frame in the gallery area the Editor will discard these temporarily created icons when you close the editing window If you Save the file while the Editor is open however all nine icons will be saved You may want to close the editing window prior to saving the file 99 RESORCERER USER MANUAL USING THE ICON EDITOR In the center of the Icon Editor display is the icon editing area On the left side of the window is the snapshot list To the left of the icon editing area are the painting tools Along the right side of the window is the icon family gallery that shows the actual size icons for each icon in the family Just above the icon editing area are the dither and Apple icon color palettes fom Family 128 fram lowed rare
20. include pixels that touch at the corner of a given pixel Sorcery You can switch between standard fill and diagonal H fill by double clicking on the paint bucket tool When diagonal fill is on the paint bucket tool has J an 8 pointed star in it In some cases you may want to use the standard fill algorithm for background pixels and the diagonal fill algorithm for foreground pixels If you choose the On Foreground Pixels Only option in the menu the Editor uses the diagonal fill algorithm only on pixels painted in the foreground color When this option is on the paint bucket tool changes to show you which fill it will use as it passes over different pixels Note Keep in mind that the Use Diagonal Fills and On Foreground Pixels Only options also affect the way the lasso tool works Sorcery Resorcerer remembers the last set of discontigous areas that you ve painted with the same paint colors or pattern If you want to try a different color pattern or dither from the one you started with hold down the Shift key as you choose a new one The Undo command will restore the pixels to what they were prior to the first of any set of consecutive paint pourings of the same color or pattern 111 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 112 THE SMUDGER TooL The smudger tool lets you smudge colors in icons so that you can do smoothing touchups by hand It averages the RGB value of the current pixel and the last pixel you touch and changes th
21. ion for example For cicn s this doesn t Weyl matter nor does it matter for Finder style icons that you plan to draw explicitly without modification with PlotIconSuite To see which colors are not part of the Apple icon color set choose Select Non Apple Icon Colors from the Editor s menu You can then recolor the selected pixels by hand or you can use the Conform to Apple Icon Colors command to map the offending colors to the nearest Apple colors 110 THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR Tue Paint Bucker TooL The paint bucket lets you paint large connected areas with the current fill pattern which uses the current foreground and background colors or the current dither combination The color that the paint bucket paints adjacent pixels depends on the color of the pixel you clicked on Original pixel color Bucket tool paints adjacent pixels in background color foreground color foreground color background color other color foreground color or background color depending on the preferences you set with the Preferences command in the Editors menu Resorcerer s definition of adjacent pixels depends on the settings of the Use Diagonal Fills and On Foreground Pixels Only options in the Editor s menu When the Use Diagonal Fills option is off an adjacent pixel is a pixel of the same color that shares an edge with a given pixel If the Use Diagonal Fills option is on the definition of adjacent is expanded to
22. itor and save the changes you ve made to the icons the Editor can optionally save your snapshots as well so you can use them later This lets you use the snapshot list as a library of images and means that you can quit Resorcerer without losing a lot of intermediate work from an icon brainstorming session Finder family snapshots are saved in resources of type iSNP keyboard icon 101 RESORCERER USER MANUAL snapshots are saved in kKSNP s and general color icon snapshots are saved in cSNP resources You turn snapshot saving on or off or change the snapshot resource type with the Preferences command in the Editor s menu THE Icon FAMILY GALLERY lee paw The icon family gallery shows all the icons in the family Fd Bwal priri individually framed The icon currently installed for b i cae editing has a bold frame To edit a different icon in the Semel gt ils family click on it to install it in the icon editing area Fl If there was no icon resource for a particular family EIGI member its frame is drawn in gray Clicking on the frame S in ca marks the icon as one you want to save with the rest p aah F diais To copy one icon in the icon family to another icon click and drag it to the destination For instance suppose that you ve designed a black and white icon and now you want to use it as the basis for an 8 bit icon Click on the ICN box in the gallery and drag it to the icl8 box When yo
23. lette shrinks the selection from the outermost editing bounds to select the largest non background colored region The All command in the Edit menv s Select submenu has the same effect as double clicking the lasso tool However if only one pixel is selected the All command selects all the pixels that match the selected pixel s color This special version of the All command is particularly useful when you want to change every instance of a specific color to another color WORKING WITH SELECTIONS Once you have used the rectangular selection tool or the lasso tool select a region in the icon you can manipulate it with the mouse or with commands in the IconFamily and Edit menus To move the selected pixels click the mouse anywhere inside the selection and drag it Since a selection can have holes in it it may be difficult to tell which pixels are part of the selection and which are not You can tell when the mouse is inside the selection because the cursor changes to an arrow instead of one of the selection tools Sorcery You can also use the arrow keys to nudge the selection pixel by pixel Sorcery If you hold down the Shift key as you drag the selection Resorcerer constrains the movement horizontally or vertically To throw away a selection drag it completely outside the icon editing area or press the Delete key The Reverse command from the Select submenu lets you invert the selection The command selects all the pixels t
24. ll be included in the selection When you release the mouse Resorcerer shrinks the selection to exclude background colored pixels The Shift Option and Command modifier keys augment the effect of the lasso selection tool as follows Modifier Effect Shift The new selection is added to the existing selection enabling you to create discontiguous selections If the new selection overlaps with the existing selection the part of the new selection that overlaps is subtracted from the existing selection Option Any background colored pixels are excluded from the interior of a selection so that only non background colored pixels are selected Command The selection does not shrink to exclude background colored pixels By combining the Shift and Command modifiers you can use the lasso tool to control the selection precisely For instance if you have a selection but you have missed one pixel hold down Shift Command and THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR lasso the missing pixel to add it to the selection You can also use the Shift Command combination cut holes in a selection Double clicking the lasso on a pixel selects all the adjacent pixels of the same color Note that the meaning of adjacent may or may not include adjacent corner pixels depending on the bucket fill mode For more information about changing the meaning of adjacent pixels see the description of the paint bucket tool below Double clicking on the lasso tool in its pa
25. move unused colors option With this option on each time the Editor rebuilds the cicn for saving DeRez ing or other uses it excludes all unused colors from the standard table In addition it reduces the internal depth of the cicn s pixmap to the minimum possible needed to support the number of colors you ve used For instance even though you are using the standard 256 colors in your palettes if the icon uses 16 or less of these 256 colors the Editor will rebuild the icon using a 4 bit pixmap Without the option on the Editor builds an icon that uses only a few of the standard 256 colors using an 8 bit deep pixmap and all 256 colors will be added to the resource You should usually use this option since icons built with minimal pixmaps can be 90 smaller than if not When a color in the cicn s color table cannot be found in any of the standard color tables the Editor checks the Custom Colors entry in the menu To remap the colors from what they are to any of the standard colors choose the appropriate entry from the Colors menu You can use Resorcerer s Color Table Editor to create a custom color table and install it by choosing Custom Colors THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR FINDING DIALOG ITEM REFERENCES Dialog item list DITL resources contain Icon items that specifiy the resource ID of an icon that the Dialog Manager will display automatically If a cicn resource is found with the same ID the Dialog
26. r 12 high by 16 wide 4 bit pixel icon The Editor also lets you edit the Script Keyboard icon families These consist of three resources that have the same ID as the KMAP resource they belong to kes Small 1 bit 16 by 16 pixel icon and family mask same as an ics kes8 Small color 16 by 16 pixel 8 bit icon same as an ics8 kes Small color 16 by 16 pixel 4 bit icon same as an ics4 98 THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR CREATING A New ICON If you are viewing resources in a File Window click on the New button or choose New Resource from the File menu If the Types List is the Active List Resorcerer will ask you to specify the resource ID prior to creating the resource otherwise it will use the next free resource ID available for the icon resource You can specify the resource ID at which Resorcerer s search begins in the Resource ID Preferences section of the Preferences dialog for more on this see the Preferences chapter later in the manual Usually the starting ID is 128 Other Editors such as the Dialog Editor or the Bundle Editor edit resources that can contain references to icon resources These editors usually let you create the referenced resource directly if it doesn t already exist OPENING AN ICON Resorcerer treats icl8 or onsen ICN s as the major i late os ye Briti ee eer resource for an icon family although opening any member of the family will start t
27. u re editing lets you turn the grid lines on or off In general black and white images are easier to edit with the grid lines on and color images are easier to edit with the grid lines off Note To minimize flashing the Editor allocates a large color offscreen pixmap that is the same size as the editing area For the small editing areas 6x magnification and 8 bit 32x32 color icons this offscreen pixmap takes up 36K When you grow the window larger the amount of memory needed for the pixmap will be much greater If Resorcerer is running low on memory it will do the best it can but there may be flashing or the option may be disabled TAKING SNAPSHOTS At any time during editing you can click on the Snapshot button to take a snapshot of the current state of the image you are editing The snapshot is added to the snapshot list on the left side of the editing window where you can view it You can put any number of snapshots in the list Sorcery You can also take a snapshot by tapping the Space Bar at any time Snapshots are a good way of recording various ideas while emer you are editing To restore from a snapshot scroll to the snapshot in the list and double click on it The Editor automatically takes an initial snapshot of each icon in the icon family This makes it easy to revert individual family icons in your editing session all the way back to before the first change you made When you close the Icon Ed
28. u copy a deeper color icon to a shallower one for instance an icl8 to an icl4 the Editor maps the colors the best it can Sorcery If you hold down the Option key as you drag the icon the Editor dithers the colors to come up with an approximation of the deeper colors If you like you can set dithering as the default with the Preferences command in the Editor menu When you copy a color icon to black and white icon but not a mask the Editor maps light colors to white and dark colors to black You can use the Preferences command to force all non black colors to either black or white When you copy to a mask all colors map to black 102 THE Ore Ke Icon EDITOR CHOOSING COLORS AND PATTERNS In addition to the standard palettes that let you select patterns and the foreground and background colors the Icon Editor has a dither chooser that lets you dither colors by hand USING THE COLOR PALETTES The palette just area lets you select a ii foreground color from a subset of all the colors available For black and white icons the palette shows only the colors black and white For 4 bit icons it displays all 16 possible colors For 8 bit colors the palette shows the 34 standard Apple icon colors instead of all the possible 256 8 bit colors To the left of this palette are two rectangles that show the foreground and background color When you edit an 8 bit icon and you click on one of these rectangles the E
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