Re: future proof icon sizes?
Re: future proof icon sizes?
- Subject: Re: future proof icon sizes?
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:34:25 -0500
On Jun 17, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Jesse Grosjean wrote:
I'm in the process of creating some new icons and am wondering what
the recommended size is nowadays for creating a new icon. I know it
used to be 128*128 for application icons and 32*32 for toolbar
icons, but has this changed with user interface scaling now
expected soon?
FYI, I have bugs filed against Icon Composer and icns Browser (rdar://
4528604) as well as the AquaIconKit (rdar://4528613) to support the
new 256x256 icon flavor.
But since resolution independence is not yet shipping for end-users,
there's no reason to author such icons at this time. If you really
need to, I believe you can use APIs to add the new size to existing
icns files.
Also for application icons multiple images are included so that the
icon can be made to look better when scaled small. Is there a
similar feature for toolbar icons, so that toolbar icons can be
made to look sharper when viewed with "Use Small Size" checked?
I'd file a feature enhancement. Perhaps the toolbar icons, NSCursor,
etc. could be made to work with multiple-resolution files (e.g. TIFF)
and do the right thing.
Note however, that you should be able to use vector-based images
which will scale nicely at all scaling factors. If you have to stick
with bitmapped content, perhaps supply different flavors. This is
what I currently do with images I feed to NSCursor. 72dpi flavors
are used for scaling factors <= 1.0 and a 216dpi one is used for
factors > 1.0.
___________________________________________________________
Ricky A. Sharp mailto:email@hidden
Instant Interactive(tm) http://www.instantinteractive.com
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden