ICON(9.1) ICON(9.1)
NAME
icon - icon editor
SYNOPSIS
icon
DESCRIPTION
Icon is a pixel-level editor for textures and small bitmaps.
Icon presents a magnified pixel grid and a true-size image.
Editing is done on the magnified grid. Pixels can be turned
black by pressing the button 1, and white by pressing button
2.
Button 3 provides an iconic menu of editing commands. Some
commands require a rectangle to be swept; this is done
either by the middle button (which supplies a fixed 16×16
rectangle) or by the right button (for rectangles of any
size).
arrow Move region (sweep rectangle and click at destina-
tion).
overlapping regions
Copy region (sweep rectangle and click at destina-
tion).
cross Invert region (sweep rectangle).
eraser Erase region (sweep rectangle).
horizontal (vertical) folded arrow
Reflect region horizontally (vertically) (sweep
rectangle).
clockwise (counterclockwise) arrow
Rotate region deasil (withershins) (sweep rectan-
gle).
horizontal (vertical) sheared lines
Shear a region horizontally (vertically) (sweep
rectangle and point at destination of nearest cor-
ner of rectangle).
scaled square
Scale a region (sweep rectangle and sweep destina-
tion rectangle).
tweed pattern
Texture a region (sweep source rectangle and a
(bigger) destination rectangle to be tiled with
ICON(9.1) ICON(9.1)
copies of the source).
glasses Read file (type file name and position the icon by
clicking). The subdirectories of are searched
automatically after the current directory.
grid Switch on or off the background grids.
extend region
Change the size of the drawing area.
pen Write file (sweep rectangle and type file name).
See bitfile(9.5) for the format.
overlapping rectangles
Bitblt region (driven by submenus on the right but-
ton).
mouse Pick up a 16×16 rectangle and make it the current
cursor (click a button to pick up a 16×16 region,
and click again to revert to normal).
help Display help information (click a button to revert
to normal).
band-aid Undo last drawing operation.
FILES
SEE ALSO
bitfile(9.5)