IconEdit for MorphOS
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Papiosaur
    Posts: 2429 from 2003/4/10
    From: France
    Hello everyone,

    I'm going to try to create an icon editor for MorphOS.

    I've started the graphical interface in MUI.

    What features would you like to see?

    Here are some ideas:

    - PNG support initially (we'll see about SVG later)
    - Drag and drop
    - Grid
    - Color selection
    - Pencil, of course
    - Alpha channel (eraser)

    Feel free to support me by buying me a coffee or two on https://ko-fi.com/papio
    You could also try out my other projects of the month (Enigma, Battle-Ship, Balloons, and those that will follow).

    Thanks for your support.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    NewSense
    Posts: 1543 from 2012/11/9
    From: Manchester, UK/GB
    @ Papiosaur - don't forget that jPV's RNOEffects v2.0 handles just about, if not, all the features you want to create as a separate standalone IconEdit(or) program.

    Not that I'm saying we can't have enough of a good thing, as a separate Icon Editor would be more readily recognisable as being specifically intended to edit icons, it's just that jPV's RNOEffects already does just about all that as it is. 8-)

    I used to rely on IconEdit with Amiga WB/OS for just that purpose, and when I swapped over to MorphOS it was something that I straight away noticed was missing from the system tools, but as MorphOS initially solely supported PNG icons I realised how to modify icons using Sketch, which for some purposes I still use, together with RNOEffects.

    Now, MorphOS additionally uses SVG icons, if your IconEdit program also supports being able to edit those icons as well, then it would be worth creating the program if only for that purpose alone. As we have no proper tools for editing SVG icons apart from VectorInk v1.1 by André Siegel but it is not intended to modify icons specifically AFAIK. :-?
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Papiosaur
    Posts: 2429 from 2003/4/10
    From: France
    @NewSense: you have right, RNOEffects is a nice image editor with many effects but what i would like to do is a small "Iconedit" like on AmigaOS in C/MUI. And if possible to be integrated in MorphOS.

    About SVG support, like i said, it will be see later.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    polluks
    Posts: 833 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
    Indeed, Hollywood does not count  ;-)
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  • MorphOS Developer
    zukow
    Posts: 649 from 2005/2/9
    From: Poland
    Sketch is already added.
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  • jPV
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    jPV
    Posts: 2180 from 2003/2/24
    From: po-RNO
    Quote:

    polluks wrote:
    Indeed, Hollywood does not count  ;-)

    For adding into MorphOS, I assume?

    But otherwise it would be an option for such a program. And as told, RNOEffects can already do many of these things, there's a pixel editor, it can load both normal and selected state images from an icon, and it can save icons to AmigaOS, MagicWB, NewIcons, GlowIcon, OS4, PNG, and Dual-PNG formats. It can also save fallback images, icon tooltypes, and set icon type and other properties (default tool, stack, position, drawer dimensions, etc.). Batch creating/converting works too. Only thing it doesn't do is SVG icons, but I guess that'd be possible to add some day too.
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  • »08.09.25 - 13:17
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    NewSense
    Posts: 1543 from 2012/11/9
    From: Manchester, UK/GB
    @ polluks - I don't have a preference for a utility if it's a Hollywood based application or a native one, I only care "if it does what it says on the tin"! ;-)

    Hollywood has allowed for a lot more applications to be made available for MorphOS that we would otherwise not have the benefit of. So, I really appreciate all those developers who have made my use of MorphOS more of a pleasure than being "stumped" or stymied, with no application to do what I wanted a program to be able to do on MorphOS.

    @ Papiosaur - of course I would support you creating a more basic IconEdit program, in the principle of Amiga Workbench, with hopefully follow-on support for SVG icon editing. 8-)
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    polluks
    Posts: 833 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
    @NewSense
    Hollywood is good for RAD, but a small app should be in C or more simple.
    How big would ReggaeList in Hollywood, less than 3 KB?
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  • »09.09.25 - 10:44
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