Re: Forms 4.0: How Do You Customize Your Iconi

In article ttv_at_quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca, tmclella_at_gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Tim McLellan) writes:
> I wasn't all that pleased with the iconic files that are available with
> Forms 4.0. I wanted a button for a drop down list box, but the only LOV
> button iconic that was available was one with five or six horizontal
> lines going through it. Developers are recognizing that as the symbol for
> a LOV, but Windows users don't.
>
> I wanted a button with an arrow and a horizontal line, just like in most
> Windows applications. I found two simple iconic files, compared them at
> the byte level, determined how the image is stored in the ICO file, and
> then managed to design my own drop down list button. It looks almost as
> good as a real Windows button image.
>
> Have you ever designed your own button image icon files? How did you do
> it? Is Oracle Graphics something I should investigate for this purpose?
>

I use iconmaster to hack around with icons, also using a lot of lov's on a form ie 30 or so on a multirow block is very slow in 4.0.12 4.0.13 suposedly fixes this I havt installed it yet so I cant confirm this

Rgds Maurice Received on Wed Oct 26 1994 - 12:34:58 CET