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### 3. Onscreen Fundamentals

In this section will be briefly described the Icon Editor user interface.

The Icon Editor window is separated in four areas: main toolbar, tools toolbar grid and statusbar.

### 3.1 Main toolbar

New File

  Create a new ikon. If the current file has been modified you will be asked if you want to save the changes. After that a dialog will open where you can choose to create the ikon from scratch or from a template (templates requires kdelibs > 1.0).

Open

  Open an existing icon file.

Save

  Save the currently open icon.

Print

  Print the icon

Cut

  Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

Copy

  Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

Paste

  Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Resize

  Resize icon to width X height (req. kdelibs > 1.0)

Gray scale

  Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the KDE icon palette.

Zoom in

Zoom out

Zoom factor

  Zoom to predefined zoom factor.

Toggle grid

  Toggle grid on/off.

New Icon Editor

  Open a new Icon Editor window.

### 3.2 Tools toolbar

This toolbar contains the tools you can use to manipulate the icon.

Find color

  Doesn't change the icon but changes the current drawcolor to the color clicked on.

Freehand

  Draw free hand.

Select

  Select (mark) a part of the icon.

Line

  Draw a line.

Rectangle

  Draw a rectangle.

Filled rectangle

  Draw a filled rectangle.

Circle

  Draw a circle.

Filled circle

  Draw a filled circle.

Ellipse

Filled ellipse

  Almost the same as drawing a circle.

Spray

  Draws a randow dotted pattern like a spraycan.

Flood fill

  Fill an area with the current color..

Eraser

  Draw transparent (invisible).

### 3.3 Grid

The grid is where you manipulate the icon contents.

### 3.4 Statusbar

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