IcontestMenu.ini: show all icons on menu
Wednesday, 30. July 2008, 22:31:11
Here's a little tool that displays all the icons with their names showing (and thus can serve as an icon chart) - and also shows how they look (and verifies that they work) on menus.
It's a byproduct of my icon chart project: having gotten into search-and-replace operations to transform the icon list, I realized one could reformat it into a menu as well. Here's the result: two extremely long menus that do't do anything. Set up as a separate INI file to be put it the Menu folder and loaded through Preferences when wanted - but the menus could also be added to one's basic menu file for quicker access.
A few remarks, and the ini file to download, inside.
It's a byproduct of my icon chart project: having gotten into search-and-replace operations to transform the icon list, I realized one could reformat it into a menu as well. Here's the result: two extremely long menus that do't do anything. Set up as a separate INI file to be put it the Menu folder and loaded through Preferences when wanted - but the menus could also be added to one's basic menu file for quicker access.
A few remarks, and the ini file to download, inside.
The box and tile array:
The file:
Icontestmenu.ini
To get these multi-column displays, you just go down to the "more" line and move right - they cascade out, one after another, stable as long as you keep your cursor on the last one.
If spliced into one's normal menu file, it could be used as a popup menu on a keystroke, to avoid littering the menu bar.
One could, it if seemed worth the effort, turn it into a picklist - adding the action, insert,"icon name" to each line. Then button makers could pick from the menu.
Having been puzzled by certain icons not showing up on menus in the past, I was wondering if a pattern of large icons giving trouble would show up - don't see that. But the tool will help to study the phenomenon.
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skye11 # 9. August 2008, 03:22
yet another great addition to my custom menu
Strathos # 15. August 2009, 10:53