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| Re: Confusion about icon sizes [message #430507 is a reply to message #430497] |
Mon, 25 May 2009 15:00  |
 Ed Merks
Messages: 33142
Registered: July 2009 |
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Dirk,
Comments below.
Dirk Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit confused about which icon size to use for the generated editor.
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> Some of our icons have a 1 pixel width border which disappears at the
> bottom and right side of the icon in the tree view. Some searching
> revealed these pages:
Things like the tree view end up computing the fixed icon size based on
the first icon it sees that then assumes that all icons will be this size...
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> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Conten ts.html#IconSpecsTypes_VDG
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> http://wiki.eclipse.org/UIGraphics_:_Specifications_:_IconSi ze&Placement#Model_Object
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> So apparently there are icons which are recommendended to be 15x15
> pixels in size (actually 16x16 but with invisible pixels), these are
> called Model Icons, and others with 16x16 pixel dimension.
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> We changed our Icons to 15x15 but now they look a bit strange in the
> properties view. They don't fully fill up the vertical space in their
> cells and are aligned to the top of the cell leaving two empty pixel
> lines at the bottom. I would prefer them aligned to the middle with
> one empty pixel line at the top and the other at the botom of the cell.
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> I guess the problem stems from the fact that the same icon's are used
> in places where actually different types of icons are expected, 15x15
> in the tree view and 16x16 in the properties view.
It's kind of annoying...
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> Any ideas how to deal with this?
No, I just lived with the annoyance...
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dirk
Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/
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