Proposed Icons for MC

[Ken Ray]

On 8/4/04 12:37 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
>> Greetings MC Folks:
>> 
>> We all know MC's icons suck.  At Richard's request, I've spent some time
>> looking into updating the icons for MC's ask and answer dialogs and have
>> arrived at a proposal.  IMO, if MC/Rev is going to continue to support
>> legacy systems, legacy and modern appearances should be supported as well.
>> Thus each major platform has two sets of icons (this may not be needed for
>> UNIX).
>> 
>> Since I can't seem to upload files to the MC_IDE Yahoo group, I've posted a
>> preview of the icons I've assembled here:
>> 
>>   http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/mc_icons_1.jpg
>> 
>> I don't work on Linux or non-OSX UNIX systems so I just took a stab at
>> creating some "nice" icons for these OS's.  Last I heard there was no real
>> standard for UNIX/Linux appearance -- let me know if the state of things is
>> otherwise.
>> 
>> Unless anyone has any objections to the proposed images, they will be
>> available for whenever Richard creates a new build.
> 
> Excellent, Scott! Thank you.
> 
> Now, who wants to add those into the answer dialog with the approriate
> logic?

I'll do it... Scott, can you send me the graphics as individual images, or
even a stack with them already imported? I'll take it from there.

> We might want to give some thought to image IDs, for Rev compatibility
> where practical and to avoid conflicts with current images IDs.
> Suggestions?

Well, I'm fine with changing the IDs of the current images in MC, but keep
in mind that this may conflict with other people's icons (i.e. they may have
provided their own replacements and now they won't work). I honestly don't
think that anyone created images in that ID range for other purposes
(because they shouldn't have according to the MC docs), but I can see
accidentally kaboshing people's answer/ask dialog replacement icons.

Does anyone have any objection to me changing the IDs of the icons in the
MetaCard IDE to use the same ID numbers as Rev uses for their icons of the
same type/name?

Or is there a better suggestion/approach?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com