Just spending the day today, my BDay, playing with XaraX and after all the discussion about modifying this icon and that I decided to try my hand at creating some myself. Not to hard for the most part. I had mentioned that for those with sight issues it would be nice for Charles and Co. to give the users options for large or small icons and text under or on the sides or even just text instead of icons. My idea would be to give the bars an interactive right click sub menu that the user could access any time and modify it to their liking.
I recreated most of them, all but the hand and the button bar icons, which I don't use at all for anything. I also left out the rectangle and circle tool icons because I would also like to see Charles and Co. simplify this area by having all the Quick Shapes under one icon, which I think the new one I came up with works pretty darned well!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif I mentioned this is a previous post a while back when it bacame apparent that there was going to be a new version of XaraX that I really admire Serif's DrawPlus Quick Shape palette, there are hundreds of shapes but they are all within about 30 shapes that are on a drop down palette. You drag and drop a shape and you are presented with 1 to 3 nodes and by draging the nodes you will see the creation of new shapes (related to the parent shape). I know that Xara Ltd. can do it better but I think this one area of DrawPlus is by far my favorite Quick Shape "provider" out of the many vector programs that I own. Just a thought! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
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