Custom icon editor BUG

If you use a custom Icon editor (as shown here and here), and you want to create a smaller Icon this will be meaningless.
Because the lv_icon interface only allows you to generate the 2-colour and 256 colour icon. The 16 colour icon will be untouched so the total size of the icon will still be 32x32 pixels.
I consider this a serious bug in the lv_icon customization scheme.
Ton
Message Edited by TonP on 01-02-2008 08:59 PM
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I thought I had a CAR...
But unfortunatly I can't locate it, so I assume their isn't any.
Could you supply us with one?
Thanks,
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Excellent custom icon editor

Hello All,
Just thought I would share this little tool with the rest of the forum. It is a custom icon editor with a load of nifty features such as dragging template icons in and also storing pre-set icon layouts. I can't really describe it properly, its best experienced!
It lives here, download and run the install VI (the whole tool is in G), then to use it just double click on the icon like you would normally do to edit it.
There are a couple of things it can't do yet, but to work around this just press CTRL-. to abort the VI and then the normal icon editor will appear!
Neil
ps: Sorry if this is old news to some people, but I only discovered it recently and figured it may be helpful to others.
nrp
CLA

Great, I managed to download it fine. Thanks.
I followed your (careful) installation instructions, after losing my templates last time, and am pleased to say it all works as promised
Although I didnt need to back up the ini file as your installer doesnt copy over that directory.
I like the additional icons.
Another feature request! (Tell me when you get sick of them.) It would be great to be able to use the cursor keys to move the Text around when using that tool (like in the NI icon editor), moving it one pixel at a time is very handy, as usually I dont put it exactly where I want to when I place the first character.
Again, thanks on this excellent tool! I hope your manager at NI knows how good it is
nrp
CLA

Icon Editor Bug/Feature?

In the linked video, I am showing a puzzling behavior of the icon editor (LV 2012 (12.0f3, Windows XP 32 bit):
I have two lines of text defined in the Icon Text tab. The second and the third lines, the other two are empty.
I am trying to draw a frame around them.
If I draw a large frame (in green in the video), things behave as expected (that is everything remains put).
If I draw a narrow frame (my initial intent, in red in the second part of the video), the text jumps up. Not expected (maybe intented, NI will tell me).
Notice that id doesn't matter that I am using line 2 and 3. The behavior also occurs if I move my test to line 1 and 2 instead.
Edit: Actually, while checking that the video was playing correctly from the link, I noticed that the first case is not as I intended it to be, as the jitteriness of Jing (which I used to capture this video) prevented me from drawing a full frame box. The result is that the first line of the text actually also jumps! If I draw a full frame, this does not happen.

The jump occurs in 2009 and 2011 as well. It also seems to be related to whether the box you draw hits the bottom row of pixels or not. It doesn't seem to matter much whether the box is wide or narrow in the left/right direction.
It also seems to be related to whether you have a background template defined. It tries to squeeze the text data into the boundary of the background template, and if a background template is not defined, then it becomes that much more confused as to where it squeezes the text. It uses other non-transparent pixels (such as the box you draw) to determine the vertical positioning of where to squeeze the text.
I don't think it is actually a bug. I think it is an artifact of other code that calculates where to put the text when that code uses inputs that haven't been defined within your icon. As you add those other inputs (turning other pixels non-transparent), it is a recalculation of where to position the text.

Icon Editor bug - random rotations

While editing icons with the new icon editor in LV 2009, I keep finding that my icon (or selection, or layer) rotates when I type the letter "r" into a layer name. Are others seeing this? What tool do I need to have selected to avoid this? I've installed the icon editor update and this bug is still there.
Also, is there some way to define the default VI Icon layer to be something other than a white square with a black border?
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I have noticed this, too. In fact, it's pretty easy to reproduce.
Open the icon editor and show the layers page. Now select a layer. At this point pressing "r" should rotate the layer, which makes sense.
Now, click in the layer name, which un-highlights the layer, and any time you type an r it will rotate.
There are some other issues with rotate: if a selection or layer goes outside the icon canvas, it will be trimmed permanently (not so great if you wanted to flip it 180 degrees).
As for changing the default icon background, I'd suggest making some templates for general use. You can save templates from within the Icon Editor. The first thing I do when editing an icon is delete the default layer and select a relevant template I've made. Or you can just use the filled rectangle too. If there is a way to change the default icon, i'd be interested in finding out.
-Barrett
Message Edited by blawson on 11-12-2009 03:27 PM
-Barrett
CLD

2013 Icon Editor bug?

I searched and did not see this listed as a bug, but I seem to have issue anytime i used the Icon Text feature versus just using the Text tool.
2013 SP1
2012 SP1
Solved!
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I hate to say it, but it looks really funny, as if all the lettering on the marquee fell off.
Sorry, this was an absolutely non-contructive post.
Bill
(Mid-Level minion.)
My support system ensures that I don't look totally incompetent.
Proud to say that I've progressed beyond knowing just enough to be dangerous. I now know enough to know that I have no clue about anything at all.

Icon Editor Bug (2010): Using icon editor degrades sub vi performance

Here's an interesting bug I've spent the last several days chasing around.
After editing a vi icon calls to that sub vi take longer until you close the project and reopen it. I think it's related data copies being made for instances the IE opens, but without any knowledge of IE internals I'm just speculating.
See the Main.vi block diagram in the attached project for repro steps.
Attachments:
IconEditorBug.zip ‏152 KB

jareds wrote:
Hi crelf,
The CAR number is 275888.
Thanks jareds.
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Bug in Icon Editor?

I was editing a VI in LV 2012 yesterday and modifiying its icon. I came across some odd behavior I would consider a bug.
I searched the forums and haven't found it being mentioned before. I tried it today using LV 2013 and had the same behavior. I have yet to try older versions.
See the attached VI.
In the icon editor, I made a layer invisible. I didn't want to delete it yet, but I also didn't want to see it while I was creating a new layer on top.
I hit OK and the icon was saved within the VI. It appeared just the way I wanted in terms of what layers I could see and which I turned off.
I edited the icon again to make a small change and hit OK.
Now the icon shows the layer I turned off !
I edited again, turned it off, hit OK, and it was like I wanted.
Edited again, and found the Visibility was turned on for all the layers when the icon was loaded back into the editor.
This is certainly unexpected and unwanted behavior. I expect that layers that I have turned off to stay turned off when I reopen the icon editor.
Two VI's are attached. The demo I created in LV 2013. And one saved back to LV8.0 so that it can be tested in older versions. I know that for a VI and icon created in LV2012 gave me the same unexpected behavior.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
IconEditorBug.vi ‏16 KB
IconEditorBugLV8.vi ‏15 KB

CAR 407147 discussed in this thread was fixed in LabVIEW 2014. For a more complete list of bugs fixed in LabVIEW 2014, check the LabVIEW 2014 Bug Fixes. You can download an evaluation copy of LabVIEW 2014 at http://www.ni.com/trylabview/ or if you have an earlier version of LabVIEW installed and an active SSP subscription, you will be able to download the latest version of LabVIEW through NI Update Service.
Regards,
Jeff Peacock
Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments | Certified LabVIEW Architect

Custom Icon Frustration

I built an AS3 component and designed a custom icon.
Right-clicked symbol in library, selected component definition and
clicked on the icon button (under description) to set an icon.
When I select custom... my finder pops up and I can navigate
to any folder on my machine but I can't select an icon, all .pngs
(and all other files) are greyed out.
Possibly related, if I select one of the normal icons (button
or something) it sets the icon correctly but I then can't set the
icon back to the default icon and I still can't set a custom icon.
I originally created the icons in photoshop, but I've also
tried exporting them from Fireworks -- no luck. I also tried
finding the default icons in my installation and editing them but
sadly this didn't work either (maybe I looked in the wrong place).
I'm using CS3 on Mac -- please tell me this isn't a bug, I
really don't want to have to buy a windows copy of Flash just to
add an icon to a component.

It is a bug. Nivesh at Adobe support was kind enough to email
me the solution: you need to enable Version Cue for file operations
(Preferences / General category / Enable Version Cue).

Automatically create folders then attach custom icon to each folder.

This is my current working script, does anyone know how I can now add customer icons to the folders in Applescript
Many thanks
Matt
set theWeekNumber to ""
repeat
display dialog "Please enter the week number:" default answer theWeekNumber
set theWeekNumber to text returned of result
try
if theWeekNumber = "" then error
set theWeekNumber to theWeekNumber as number
exit repeat
on error
set thePrefix to "INVALID ENTRY! "
end try
end repeat
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set theBFolder to "BFolder_WK" & theWeekNumber
set theEnd to "_PSD"
set theEnd2 to "todo"
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make folder at folder "Studio:Users:matthewchild:Desktop" with properties {name:theAFolder & theEnd}
make folder at folder "Studio:Users:matthewchild:Desktop" with properties {name:theBFolder & theEnd}
make folder at folder "Studio:Users:matthewchild:Desktop" with properties {name:theAFolder & theEnd2}
make folder at folder "Studio:Users:matthewchild:Desktop" with properties {name:theBFolder & theEnd2}
end tell

The following script uses a handler that will set a custom icon to a file item. In this example, you are prompted for the icon file and the file item to set to the icon, but you can just pass the desired image and folder paths directly to the handler.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFD891;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
-- assign an icon to a folder or file (requires Developer Tools)
-- any image file can be used for the icon
property startingDirectory : (path to home folder) -- a place for the file choice dialogs to start from
on run -- example
try -- check for tools
get "/Developer/Tools/" as POSIX file as alias
on error
error "Developer Tools not installed"
end try
set iconFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose an image file for the icon:" default location startingDirectory)
if (do shell script "/usr/bin/file " & quoted form of POSIX path of iconFile) does not contain "image" then -- check image file
error "The icon file is not an image"
end if
tell application "Automator Runner" to tell open panel -- using this panel allows the choice of a file or folder
set floating to true
set can choose directories to true
set can choose files to true
set allows multiple selection to false
call method "setShowsHiddenFiles:" of it with parameters {false}
set title to "Select an item to set to the custom icon:"
set prompt to "Set Icon" -- this is actually the button text
activate
if (display it in directory startingDirectory) is 0 then -- cancel button
error number -128
else
my (setCustomIcon from iconFile to (it's path names as text)) -- just one item
end if
end tell
end run
to setCustomIcon from imageFile to destination
Set the icon of a destination file item to the image contained in imageFile
parameters - imageFile [various]: an imagefile for the icon (Finder alias or POSIX text)
destination [various]: a destination item to set to the icon (Finder alias or POSIX text)
returns [boolean]: true if icon is set, false otherwise
set imageFile to imageFile as text
if imageFile starts with "/" then -- check for POSIX file
set imageFile to imageFile as POSIX file as alias
else
set imageFile to imageFile as alias
end if
set destination to destination as text
if destination does not start with "/" then -- check for POSIX file
set destination to POSIX path of destination
end if
try
tell application "Finder" -- copy the icon image to a temporary file
(duplicate imageFile to (path to temporary items) with replacing) as alias
set tempImage to quoted form of POSIX path of the result
end tell
set tempResource to quoted form of (POSIX path of (((path to temporary items) as text) & "TempResource"))
do shell script "/usr/bin/sips -i " & tempImage -- add a Finder icon to the image
do shell script "/Developer/Tools/DeRez -only icns " & tempImage & " > " & tempResource -- get the icon resource
do shell script "/usr/bin/file " & quoted form of destination -- determine the destination file type
if the result contains "directory" then -- folder
set theTarget to quoted form of (destination & "/Icon" & return) -- create Icon\r file
set Command to "rm " & theTarget & "; " -- remove any existing custom icon
set Command to Command & "/Developer/Tools/Rez -a " & tempResource & " -o " & theTarget & "; " -- add resource file to a folder
set Command to Command & "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V " & theTarget & "; " -- make it invisible
else -- file
set Command to "/Developer/Tools/Rez -a " & tempResource & " -o " & quoted form of destination & "; " -- add resource to a file
end if
set Command to Command & "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a C " & quoted form of destination -- set custom icon attribute
do shell script Command -- do it
on error errmess number errnum -- oops
log errmess
-- display alert "Error " & errnum message errmess buttons {"OK"}
return false
end try
try -- remove temporary files
do shell script "rm " & tempImage & space & tempResource
end try
tell application "Finder" to update (destination as POSIX file)
return true
end setCustomIcon
</pre>

Text based VI Icon editor with letter compression

For anyone who is looking for a quick and easy text based icon editor I've posted my latest version in the LAVA CR
http://forums.lavag.org/downloads.html&showfile=56
Description:
This is the second version of my vi icon editor and was created in LV8.2. The purpose is to help quickly create text base icons. The editor can be used in place of the standard NI icon editor or as a stand alone vi. see instructions. My original posting of the icon editor Ver. 1 can be found here
LabVIEW 7.0,7.1 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=19022
LabVIEW 8.0 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=12920
Instructions:
1: The icon editor was designed to be used as a replacement for the standard NI editor LV8.x only. To get LabVIEW 8.x to use the editor place the three files (lv_icon.vi, color templates.bin and the folder lv_icon_Subvis) in the LabVIEW 8.2\resource\plugins directory.
The next time the icon editor is called LabVIEW will use the lv_icon.vi instead of the standard one.
There is a button on the editor that will allow you to use NI’s editor when a text icon is not desired.
2: The icon editor can also be called from another vi or used as a stand alone tool. Make sure the “From Editor” control is set to false either via terminal in the lower left corner of the connector pane or manually in the FP. This setting indicates to the vi that a vi reference will be used to extract and save the icon information. If the “VI REF” input control is invalid at runtime a dialogue box will appear asking the user to select a vi.
New features:
Along with the auto drawing and Text compressing from version 1, version 2 has 2 new features.
1: In addition to the 2 color format in version 1 the icon editor now supports a 5 color format (Frame, Header text, Header Back, Body Text, and Body Back). This is the standard frame that many programmers use.
2: In version 2 the last 10 icon color sets are saved in a binary file and are recalled each time the editor is open. These color sets can then be selected and reused.
Future Ideas and improvements:
A graphics picker that would import a list of graphics to choose from
Template creators were text zones could be created to avoid interfering with graphics.
Incorporate some or all of the Ni editor functions.
Text extractor that would fill in the text boxes from the icon image.
Please feel free to give me feedback. This version has benefited greatly from ideas given to me by coworkers and other programmers.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

For anyone who is looking for a quick and easy text based vi icon editor I've posted my latest version in the LAVA CR
http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=56
File: Mark Balla Icon editor V2.2
Author: Mark Balla
[email protected]
Description:
This is the newest version of my vi icon editor and was created in LV8.2. The purpose is to help quickly create text base icons. The editor can be used in place of the standard NI icon editor or as a stand alone vi. see instructions. My original posting of the icon editor Ver. 1 can be found here
LabVIEW 7.0,7.1 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=19022
LabVIEW 8.0 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=12920
Instructions:
1: The icon editor was designed to be used as a replacement for the standard NI editor LV8.x only. To get LabVIEW 8.x to use the editor place the three files (lv_icon.vi, color templates.bin and the folder lv_icon_Subvis) in the LabVIEW 8.2\resource\plugins directory.
The next time the icon editor is called LabVIEW will use the lv_icon.vi instead of the standard one.
There is a button on the editor that will allow you to use NI's editor when a text icon is not desired.
2: The icon editor can also be called from another vi or used as a stand alone tool. Make sure the "From Editor" control is set to false either via terminal in the lower left corner of the connector pane or manually in the FP. This setting indicates to the vi that a vi reference will be used to extract and save the icon information. If the "VI REF" input control is invalid at runtime a dialogue box will appear asking the user to select a vi.
Version 2.1:
Along with the auto drawing and Text compressing from version 1, version 2 has 2 new features.
1: In addition to the 2 color format in version 1 the icon editor now supports a 5 color format (Frame, Header text, Header Back, Body Text, and Body Back). This is the standard frame that many programmers use.
2: In version 2 the last 10 icon color sets are saved in a binary file and are recalled each time the editor is open. These color sets can then be selected and reused.
Version 2.2:
Along with the all the features from version 2.1, version 2.2 has several new features.
1: A new color picker was added. The standard NI color picker has been replaced by one that will only show the legal 221 colors allowed by LabVIEW for icons.
My thanks to Justin Goeres for the idea.
2:Key navigation has improved. The key navigation will only set focus to the text boxes to navigate between boxes use the tab, enter, up and down keys.
My thanks to boone_93 for the idea.
3:Improved UI. The buttons and current and previous icons have been relocated for a more intuitive look. I have also added tip strips to the buttons and history array.
My thanks to ahull for the idea.
4:Random color picker. A random color button has been added to help pick colors.
My thanks to Dave Graybeal for the idea.
5: FP auto centers. The icon editor will now open in the center of the primary display.
My thanks to tcplomp for the code.
6: The ability to read the text in the icon was added. If the icon to be changed was previously created by this icon editor the program will automatically detect the characters in the icon and convert them back into strings. This function allows for small changes like color changes and spelling mistakes to be changed without having to type all the text over.
This one was all mine.
7:Bug with Panel close fixed. When the user presses the x in the upper right corner the editor will shut down gracefully instead of locking up.
I made a avi file that shows some of the new features for Version 2.2 which I posted the support thread.
Please feel free to give me feedback. This version has benefited greatly from ideas given to me by coworkers and other programmers.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
Attachments:
picture of editor.png ‏47 KB

LabVIEW 2010 icon editor -- why is white not white

OK, so I'm creating an Icon in LV 2010.
I want a white background.
So I choose the white color in the palette. But that doesn't quite look like white (a little darker than white).
so I go get a custom color, and set it to 255/255/255 (R/G/B). add it to my custom colors. hover over it quickly with the mouse and see that it is actually 255/255/255.
Then I go back to the actually icon editing, and make sure my color selection (foreground/background) is both WHITE (255/255/255).
I draw a box.
The box isn't white!!!
the box is drawn with colors 246/246/246 (R/G/B) not 255/255/255!
Go create another custom color of 255/255/254.
Draw the box again.
Box looks white, but it is actually 255/255/254 (what you would expect to get). Close enough for me to use, so I can get on with making my icons, but I just need to remember to not try to actually set the color to 255/255/255 -- actually use something ever so slightly different.
Best I can figure out -- if you hover over a transparent section, you see the color go to 255/255/255, so LV must be using 255/255/255 as transparent. But then it says that color is 255/255/255, and it's not, it's transparent. So the color should be shown as T/T/T so I don't need to know the special magical decoder of 255/255/255 = transparent to see if one single pixel is transparent color or not.
End of rambling and venting, and on to the real question:
What's special about taking 255/255/255 white and converting it to 246/246/246 instead of something closer like 254/254/254?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

The Icon Editor thinks it is doing you a favor, and it probably really is given the (perhaps outdated) method LV uses for transparency on the BD. By design, any "white" on the outside of a BD object (ie. icon) is considered transparent and not part of the object as far as clicking is concerned. I have also discovered the hard way that "white" means any pure grey (R=G=B) with R,G,B > 246. Tweaking the B value is one way to avoid this (as you have discovered).
You can get some very interesting effects when LV thinks your entire subVI is transparent.

Custom icon for module_webappsresultsmap

As the title says...
When you make a search on the Google map, the icon that shows where the place is, is a standard Google Map icon.
Is it possible to override and add a custom icon for this?
It would be nice to have it within the tag...
ie. {module_webappsresultsmap,GoogleKey,width,height,ResultsPage,SortType,Image}
Or have the image within the web app so that each location has a different icon.

I tried submitting this same problem as a feature request and/or bug report.
Unfortunately, and somewhat disconcertingly, the Captivate Bug Report form also doesn't work. No matter how thoroughly I entered my request, I got these error messages:
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Custom icon leaf tree

Hi developers,
I have one how to do question: In a tree I like to introduce a custom icon on each leaf.
For this, I tried to introduce at the icon column sql #WORKSPACE_IMAGES#picture.gif but nothing happened, instead if I use #IMAGE_PREFIX#standard_picture.gif it works, but I want to use my custom pictures uploaded in Shared Components->Images.
Is there any way to do this? Thank you in advance.

Hi "user11978562",
In APEX 4.0, bug 9893260 was logged against the handling of #WORKSPACE_IMAGES# and #APP_IMAGES# in the setting of custom icons on a tree. However, the fix for this issue was incorporated in the 4.0.1 patch release. It was also discussed on this related thread: Re: Syntax for icon in Tree element If you are running 4.0, then my recommendation would be to upgrade to our latest patch release, 4.0.2. If you are running on 4.0.1 or higher, then this may be a silly question, but is there a chance that the images you've uploaded are associated with a particular application? Maybe it's worth trying #APP_IMAGES# instead of #WORKSPACE_IMAGES#.
Regards,
Hilary

Custom Icon for application file

I can make director allow me to have a custom icon for appliacation file.
In director I have attempted this several times where I have tried to have my appliaction file have an icon. I have purchased two icon program Candy Bar and Fastincs trying to remedy this problem.
As you see here I am using an ins file created in Fastincs. Now here is an image to the path and the icon itself Applipcations/ Adobe Director 11/3 HorseLogo.mac.ins
So there is the setup now when I complile for my program file I get this.
See the grey Director icon I don't want that I want the three horse logo.
I also tried to assign the logo after publishing the file.
then I drag my icon file in
The program created in director still wont see the icon file.
If I use Candy bar (icon application) I get a different result. The icon works
in both finder and on the task bar
This is exactly what I want.
I works until I try to move the entire package into an installer program I am using BitRock. When I compile the installation program then try to run the application I get the following message
If I choose ignore the install continues. But I have no icon.
I am desperate , weeping , screaming , and almost a lost cause, any help any help at all I could really use.
Thanks
Robin aka innish

Hi Robin,
I'm more of a PC person rather than Mac. I would recommend you look at the Resource and Icon Editor page at:
http://collab.directorforum.com/Resource_and_Icon_Editor
It may fix your icon issue from Director.
Dean

Custom Icon for Windows.exe from a Mac

It doesn't seem possible to insert a custom icon for a Windows executable when working on Captivate on a Mac, is that right? The documentation (below) seems to gloss over this shortcoming.
Custom Icon
You can customize the icon that is displayed for the executable file. Click Browse (...) to add a custom icon for your file. Ensure that the icon file has a .ico extension (on Windows)/.icns (for Mac).

I tried submitting this same problem as a feature request and/or bug report.
Unfortunately, and somewhat disconcertingly, the Captivate Bug Report form also doesn't work. No matter how thoroughly I entered my request, I got these error messages:
The following error(s) must be corrected before this form can be completed:
Please enter your name
Please enter your E-mail address
Please select if it is feature request or the bug report.
Please select a product
Please enter the issue description

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