creating my own tools palette

[Mark Schonewille]

Hello Oakes,

I made my own tools palette for in the Rev IDE. It contains many 
small script that I use every day. Since it is for my own use, I 
didn't add any fancy graphics. Just a few buttons with cryptic 
names.

If you are a true newbie, I'd just start learning the scripting 
language before trying to make a tools palette. It is nice if 
you can build an interface with buttons and graphics, but it is 
useless if you haven't learnt how to bring it alive, yet.

Now, if I haven't convinced you yet... Sure, you can use any 
graphics programme to create icons for your tools palette. 
Anything from ColorIt! to PhotoShop will do.

First set up your tools palette with the buttons and scripts you 
need. Then design at least two icons for each tool. Save the 
icons and import them all into the mainstack of your project. 
Now you can set the icon of each button. Set the hiliteIcon of 
each button to a slightly darker version of the icon.

If you want you can also set the style of a tool to checkbox and 
use a different icon for the armed state (set the showName to 
false). That gives a useful effect.

That's it.

Mark


Xeubie Tsu wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to rev. Could someone let me know how to create my own 
> tools palette with my own custom tools? I imagine I'd need some graphics 
> program to draw the objects and such.
> 
> Thanks,
> Oakes
> 

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