Re: [Fxruby-users] Icons: Are any standard? where?

[Lyle J. <jl...@cf...>]

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> Now I have the beginnings of my TreeList working, I'd like to add
> icons to it.  There are some folder icons in the examples.  Am I
> free to use these in my software?

Yes.

> Are there stock icons that come with Fox which can be accessed portably?

I wouldn't call them "stock" icons. If you look in various 
subdirectories of the FOX distribution you will find some image files 
that are used for application icons (e.g. those for the Adie text editor 
application), and you are free to use those.

> Are there any FXRuby icon editors out there yet, as I will
 > need to roll some of my own anyway for this application?

You don't need an FXRuby-specific icon editing program, as icons are 
always constructed from standard image file formats (e.g. GIF, BMP, PNG, 
...). There are about a million free icon/image editing programs out 
there, for both Windows and Linux. Or you can take my lazy man's 
approach and just look for free icons that someone else has already drawn.

Do keep in mind that icons need to be either 16x16 or 32x32; these are 
standard sizes and IIRC it's a limitation of the underlying Window 
systems that they be this size.

Hope this helps,

Lyle