# The &kiconedit; Manual

Thomas
Tanghus

    tanghus@earthling.net

1997
Thomas Tanghus
2001
Lauri Watts
&FDLNotice;
2001-05-02
2.02.01

&kiconedit; is designed to help create icons for &kde; using the standard icon palette.

KDE
kdegraphics
KIconEdit
icon

## Introduction

> Thomas Tanghus tanghus@earthling.net

> &kiconedit; is designed to help create icons for &kde; using the standard icon palette.

> I hope you will find this program somehow useful and I would appreciate any suggestions and comments.

## Onscreen Fundamentals

In this section will be briefly described the Icon Editor user interface.

The Icon Editor window is separated in four areas: main toolbar, tools toolbar, the grid and statusbar.

### Main toolbar

New Window

  Open a new window.

New File

  Create a new icon. If the current file has been modified you will be asked if you want to save the changes. After that a dialog will open where you can choose to create the icon from scratch or from a template.

Open...

  Open an existing icon file.

Save

  Save the currently open icon.

Print

  Print the icon.

Cut

  Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

Copy

  Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

Paste

  Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Resize

  Resize icon to width X height.

Gray scale

  Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the &kde; icon palette.

Zoom in
Zoom out
Zoom factor

  Zoom to predefined zoom factor.

Toggle grid

  Toggle grid on/off.

New Icon Editor

  Open a new Icon Editor window.

### Tools toolbar

This toolbar contains the tools you can use to manipulate the icon.

Find color

  Doesn't change the icon but changes the current drawcolor to the color clicked on.

Freehand

  Draw free hand.

Select

  Select (mark) a part of the icon.

Line

  Draw a line.

Rectangle

  Draw a rectangle.

Filled rectangle

  Draw a filled rectangle.

Circle

  Draw a circle.

Filled circle

  Draw a filled circle.

Ellipse

  Draw an ellipse

Filled ellipse

  Draw a filled ellipse (almost the same thing as drawing a circle.)

Spray

  Draws a randow dotted pattern like a spraycan.

Flood fill

  Fill an area with the current color.

Eraser

  Draw transparent (invisible).

### Grid

The grid is where you manipulate the icon contents.

### Statusbar

The status bar keeps you informed of current operations. From left to right, it tells you the x,y coordinates of the pixel you are working on, the size of the current canvas, the zoom factor, and the current number of colors in the icon.

## The Menu Entries

### File

The following functions are available from the File menu:

File New Window

  Open a new Icon Editor window.

&Ctrl;N File New...

  Lets you create a new icon, either from a template or by specifying the size.

&Ctrl;O File Open...

  Open an existing icon file.

File Open Recent

  Displays a list of recently opened icons to choose from.

&Ctrl;S File Save

  Save the currently open icon.

File Save as...

  Save the currently open icon under a new name.

&Ctrl;P File Print...

  Print the icon

&Ctrl;W File Quit

  Close &kiconedit;.

### Edit

The Edit menu contains the following entries:

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

  Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

  Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

  Paste the contents of the clipboard (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Edit Paste as New

  Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Edit Clear

  Clear the grid and fill it with transparent color.

&Ctrl;A Edit Select all

  Marks the entire icon as selected.

### Icon

Icon Resize

  Opens a dialog where you can change the size of the icon.

Icon Grayscale

  Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the &kde; icon palette.

### View

View Zoom in

  Magnify the view of the icon.

View Zoom out

  Shrink the view icon to a smaller screen size

View Zoom factor

  Zoom to a predefined zoom factor

### Tools

Tools Freehand

  Draw free hand.

Tools Rectangle

  Draw a rectangle.

Tools Filled Rectangle

  Draw a filled rectangle.

Tools Circle

  Draw a circle.

Tools Filled Circle

  Draw a filled circle.

Tools Ellipse

  Draw an ellipse

Tools Filled Ellipse

  Draw a filled ellipse (almost the same thing as drawing a circle.)

Tools Spray

  Draws a random dotted pattern like a spraycan.

Tools Flood fill

  Fill an area with the current color.

Tools Line

  Draw a line.

Tools Eraser (Transparent)

  Draw transparent (invisible).

### Options

Options Configure

  Opens the &kiconedit; configuration dialog, described separately.

Options Show Grid

  Toggle on and off the grid.

Options Show Toolbar

  Toggle on and off the display of the toolbar.

Options Show drawing tools

  Toggle on and off the display of the drawing tools.

Options Show Statusbar

  Toggle on and off the display of the status bar.

Options Save options

  Save the current state of the &kiconedit; options.

### Help

&help.menu.documentation;

## Credits and Licenses

&kiconedit;

Program copyright Thomas Tanghus tanghus@kde.org

### Contributors

- John Califf jcaliff@compuzone.net

- Laurent Montel lmontel@mandrakesoft.com

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

### How to obtain &kiconedit;

&install.intro.documentation;

### Compilation and Installation

&install.compile.documentation;