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

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> 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.

Thank you.
>
> > 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

Is that perjorative?  Onelook dictionary gives the meaning I meant:
adjective:   regularly and widely used or sold (Example: "A stock
item")
which doesn't seem perjorative.

> 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.

I did see a few, but no evidence of a central place to keep them,
etc.
>
> > 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

True, but I need a program from a reputable community, I bet Icon
editors and similar are a good way to pickup spyware...  The GNU
imaging programs, OTOH, seem to go:
get gtk+, which requires libungif, which requires libpng, which
requires zlib which I can't get to build.
[Harris, R: "The Court of King Caractacus"] :-)

> 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

Bewildered by choice, also searching turns up MUCH shareware, and I
really don't want to get into the international money exchange
problem again!  :-)

> approach and just look for free icons that someone else has already drawn.

Tried that, but I've found it difficult to search the licencing
aspects as well as the image with Google.  Maybe a better engine
exists for this pupose?
>
> 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.

thanks for this extra point.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>
        Thank you.
        Hugh
>