IconPainter is shareware written by Colin Mummery who can be contacted at
sales@cellspark.com and whose homepage is
www.cellspark.com.
IconPainter installation notes
The IconPainter ZIP file name indicates the date that the product version in the file was built in day/month/year order.
The IconPainter ZIP file contains:
- This file
- The Changes file
- The license
- The IconPainter JAR file
IconPainter requires that the Java 2 virtual machine be installed on your machine. This
is available free at from Sun.
The program is packaged into the single JAR file. This can be run by either double clicking on it
in Windows (or a single click in Solaris) or alternatively with the command
java -jar IconPainter.jar
The IconPainter JAR file is self-contained and should not be unzipped. This JAR file cannot be run as an applet
in a browser, instead it must be run as a standalone application (similar to a '.exe' file on a PC).
It can be placed in any directory on a users
machine. When it runs it will create two directories as subdirectories to the directory where
it resides. These are called "props" and "myicons". The directory "props" contains files for saving
session information as well as registration information. The directory "myicons" is the default directory for saved icons.
If the user saves the current palette a third directory called "palettes" will be created. Erasing any
of the directories is not critical as they will automatically be recreated by IconPainter however they also
contains registration information so the registration code may have to be re-entered.
The user manual for the product is accessed via the help menu.
Known issues
- The JAI TIFF codec cannot read some TIFFs and saved TIFF are always uncompressed
- Flood filling larger (eg. 150x150+) images can produce a fatal error because of an out of memory condition
- With antialiasing turned off and gradient fill turned on outlined shapes
are moved up and to the left one pixel - java bug.
Display problems
If you use a Windows PC and the IconPainter windows are not repainting properly then right
click on the Windows desktop and select properties. This gives you the Display properties dialog. Select
Settings then Advanced and turn down the graphics acceleration. Turning down the acceleration may
also cause the cursor to flicker in which case turn off IconPainter's animated logo by using
the appropriate option in the "Settings" menu.
Paying for IconPainter
IconPainter can be registered
online with a credit card
via the Kagi payment service.
Installing the latest IconPainter over older versions.
If you want to preserve the "myicons" directory from an older version then it's quite ok
simply to replace only the old version's JAR file with the newer JAR file. In this case it's
quite probable that most settings from the last session eg.current color, will be reset.
Note: User's of version 2.5 or less should re-register to use a higher version
© Colin Mummery.