Iconeditor

[MrSpock]

Hello,
Please extend the icon editor to 32 pixels in version 9.1.0 and allow transparency.

[MrSpock]

Pushed!
When I select large buttons, I also want to have corresponding icons.
Up to version 8.xx this was also possible.

[bbadmin]

TextPad 9's toolbar buttons are created from SVG images so we'll enable custom images to be imported from SVG files in the next release. These can be created using 3rd party tools such as Inkscape.

[bbadmin]

SVG images can now be used in TextPad 9.2.

[MrSpock]

And how?
If I use Preferences » View it is impossible to use an own icon.

[bbadmin]

The installer should have created a file called CustomIcons.svg in folder %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\9. To workaround that, create the file yourself containing these lines:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><svg width="32" height="32">
<svg id="blank" width="32" height="32" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 32 32" x="0" y="0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect width="32" height="32" style="stroke:black;fill:none" />
</svg></svg>

Will look into the reason this was not created automatically.

[MrSpock]

OK, a second install and the file will be created.
Now it is possible to import a svg-file but is nothing to see. The imported svg-file shows an arrow but it is white (see attachment).
In the explorer-preview appears "Some items have been blocked so that the sender cannot identify your computer."

[bbadmin]

I don't understand the "sender cannot identify your computer" issue.

Here's a SVG you can try. It draws a red down arrow.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg width="32" height="32" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
 <polygon transform="matrix(1.6 0 0 1.6 .026 0)"
 points="11 0 9 0 9 16.172 2.929 10.101 1.515 11.515 10 20 10.707 19.293 18.485 11.515 17.071 10.101 11 16.172" fill="#ff0000"/>
</svg>

[MrSpock]

Good, the example works. But a *.png which was "converted" with Inkscape into a *.svg does not work.
In my opinion it was not a good decision to use *.svg. After all I have read about it, there is hardly a format that is less regulated than for example *.png.
Please show me how to convert the attachment into a textpad compliant icon.

[bbadmin]

It doesn't really make sense to convert a raster image to SVG, even if it's possible. All Inkscape does is to embed the PNG data with a special tag which TextPad does not recognise. It supports 16x16 bitmaps for backwards compatibility, but now uses SVG so that the icons scale well for high resolution displays. I'll forward an enhancement request for handling embedded PNG data.