Hi. Michael, thanks a lot for your investigation work. I've tried manipulating the handles.png file, and indeed it works. Not as expected, though: 1. alpha transparency doesn't work (admittedly, kind of expected that after seeing the 3D rotation handles that have black backgrounds in-program) 2. there's something really weird: LibO resizes the large, 9px*9px handles to 8px*8px – also true for the other images: all are displayed at (n-1)px*(n-1)px ... see the attached image (it's a manipulated screenshot with my "custom" handles [they have a partly-transparent 1px white border around them, which I hoped might help on blue backgrounds, but seems pretty ugly to me now]). Then, as probably everyone can see, LibO has far too many differently coloured handles (six colours, srsly?) – unless someone knows where the rest of these are ever used. It would be helpful to see which are in use and which aren't, so the appropriate ones can be skinned. On 31 October 2011 20:01, alexander.wilms <alexander.wilms@zoho.com> wrote:
Hi all, It's nice to see how fast this is going :) I don't understand much of the code, but LO uses those bitmaps and takes the areas which contain the actual icon, right? Wouldn't it be much more convenient to use single (SVG) images instead, or at least a vector-based set of handles?
I don't understand much about that either, but I think there are few general things: * vector images can't be used as icons in LibO currently (but it would be great, of course) * vector images displayed at small pixel sizes are usually larger than bitmaps at those sizes * sometimes sprites can be very efficient because they load faster than single bitmap images would (as they're also smaller than many single bitmaps together are) Astron.
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