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Customize cell icons in your cell selector button bar
Original Tip Date:
Jul. 25, 2005
Customize cell icons in your
Cell Selector
button bar
Here's a fabulous tip from
Scott Harmon
where he describes how you can easily customize the display of the icons in your
Cell Selector
dialog:
I use this technique to customize the cell selector when I want the icon to display a little differently than the actual cell that will be placed. To do this, just copy the cells to a different cell library, modify the graphics to how you'd like them to appear as an icon, and then configure each
Library
button setting to this modified cell library.
The
Key-In
field then gets configured to attach and place the actual cell. The keyin needs to include attaching the library of the cell you want to place if the cell name is the same as the one used for the icon cell, or the cell name is not found in a library defined by MS_CELLLIST.
Library:
- Note the name of my cell library used for the icons only:
plumicon
for
plumbing icons
.
Keyin:
- The actual cell being placed is coming from a different cell library.
aplumb
.
AskInga Tip #549
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Thu, Jun 19 2008 8:40 AM
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