The settings menu

There are various options in the "Settings" menu to alter IconPainter's presentation.

JPEG qaulity

When using JPEG 75% is the normal quality for good compression however for samller images you may want to use 100% for maximum quality and minimal loss. However it should be remembered that JPEG is not lossless and saving an image even at 100% will result in some loss of quality.

XPM encoding

When XPM files are encoded IconPainter can use all Hex values to describe colors or can use the color name as specified in the X-windows "rgb.txt" file. The former is the default.

Gradient shading

Gradient shading can be a very slow process on either a slow machine or in a large image. IconPainter does this carefully and accurately by default but setting the shading to be slow and approximate can dramatically speed this operation up.

On image resize

When the image is resized the default behaviour is to resize the image contents. By using this option it is possible to also leave the image contents so that the effect is to add (or subtract) space to (or from) the image.

Showing the image center

When switched on this option will cause two crossed lines to be drawn over the image to indicate the image center. This option's setting is not saved between sessions.

Changing the look and feel

Java supports a number of look and feels. IconPainter allows the user to switch between the standard cross-platform look and feel (sometimes known as "Metal"), and the native system look and feel (eg.the Windows look and feel on a computer running Windows, or the Mac L&F on Mac).

The aimated logo

In addition, the animated logo may be turned off which may be a good thing to do on a very slow machine to save resources or if it annoys you. It may also cause the cursor to flicker on a PC.

Reloading all defaults

IconPainter remembers settings between options. This menu option resets everthing to the way it was when IconPainter was started for the first time. It automatically shuts IconPainter down. When the user restarts the program the default settings will be returned.

The splash image

Once the software is registered the splash image can be turned off. This may decrease the startup time by a small amount or the splash image may just annoy you.