[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Hello

Is there any icon library available for pys60 ? I simple do not have any artistic capability, so...

Searching, I can see several examples using z:\\system\\data\\avkon.mbm. I couldn't find this file in my phone but some sites show its contents:

http://alindh.iki.fi/symbian/avkon.mbm/

Is there any other set of icons ready to use ?

thanks a lot

[jethro.fn]

You can download SVG clipart from http://openclipart.org. Some of the files need a little modification to display correctly on a phone (add a valid viewBox attribute to the outermost svg element). Many of the SVG files are too large for an S60 application icon. Nokia suggested max. 10 kB icon file size at some point.

Note: When trying out different icons, the phone caches the first icon. If you update your SIS file, any new icon is not displayed until you turn the phone off and on again (removing a SIS package and reinstalling it is not enough). This behaviour may have been corrected on newer S60 3rd Edition phones.

[Rafael T.]

Originally Posted by jethro.fn

You can download SVG clipart from http://openclipart.org. Some of the files need a little modification to display correctly on a phone (add a valid viewBox attribute to the outermost svg element). Many of the SVG files are too large for an S60 application icon. Nokia suggested max. 10 kB icon file size at some point.

Note: When trying out different icons, the phone caches the first icon. If you update your SIS file, any new icon is not displayed until you turn the phone off and on again (removing a SIS package and reinstalling it is not enough). This behaviour may have been corrected on newer S60 3rd Edition phones.

Hi Jussi,

I think he is talking about icons for a listbox

By the way, I have a N95 8gb and sometimes I have to restart the phone to see the new icon, so it is not completely corrected on S60 3rd edition phones, but it may be corrected on the FP2 ones...


BR,

Rafael.

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Originally Posted by Rafael T.

Hi Jussi,

I think he is talking about icons for a listbox

Yes, for listbox ! MBM icons, I think.

[cyke64]

Originally Posted by marcelobarrosalmeida

Hello


Searching, I can see several examples using z:\\system\\data\\avkon.mbm. I couldn't find this file in my phone but some sites show its contents:

http://alindh.iki.fi/symbian/avkon.mbm/

Is there any other set of icons ready to use ?

thanks a lot

You can find the avkon2.mbm in z:\\RESOURCE\\APPS (no avkon.mbm in 3rd edition)


Thanks for the avkon link

BR
Cyke64

[JOM]

Originally Posted by marcelobarrosalmeida

http://alindh.iki.fi/symbian/avkon.mbm/

Nice discovery, thanx! Did you find avkon2.mbm anywhere? Would be nice, been looking for it myself. At one point I even created an avkon2.mbm viewer application, but couldn't run it since it required too much memory. Had to split in two parts

Anyway, that wasn't too useful. Website would be much better.

Cheers,

--jouni

[cyke64]

Originally Posted by JOM

At one point I even created an avkon2.mbm viewer application, but couldn't run it since it required too much memory. Had to split in two parts

--jouni

Hi Jouni

Haye you tried this library for viewing your mbm file in your device ?

BR
Cyke64

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by JOM

Nice discovery, thanx! Did you find avkon2.mbm anywhere?

Here you go: http://symbiantricks.info/tricks/avkon2_mif_icons/ (MIF files link to MBM files for bitmap icons.)

[JOM]

Originally Posted by cyke64

Have you tried this library for viewing your mbm file in your device?

I guess I have, since cannot imagine how else would I have been able to write the avkon2.mbm viewer I recall I saw something for avkon.mbm and after some research figured out that that specific file was missing and replaced by avkon2.mbm. Have to check, if I still have sources somewhere...

Originally Posted by jethro.fn

Here you go: http://symbiantricks.info/tricks/avkon2_mif_icons/ (MIF files link to MBM files for bitmap icons.)

Nice, but it has applied icon + mask together into single image. I would like to see them separately, because there was some problems. I recall a mask or two were missing, which kind of messed up numbering. Nevertheless, GREAT reference and very useful to see all the images on large page Have to think, if I could reuse default icons in some own sw

Hmph, I do know that avkon.mbm and avkon2.mbm are not "backwards compatible". Wondering, whether avkon2.mbm is same in each release or whether icons are changed? Names are kept same to keep source code compatibility, most likely also generic icon style, but what about size? Most likely not, I would imagine...

Cheers,

--jouni

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by JOM

Nice, but it has applied icon + mask together into single image. I would like to see them separately, because there was some problems.

I don't see any problem with that. For icons marked "svg" you can use the same number for icon and mask. All the bitmap icons I tested have the mask right after the icon itself. To find out the icon and mask numbers for Icon(), check the image URL on the web page, for example by right clicking the image and selecting "Open Image in New Tab" or some such thing.

import appuifw
import e32

# Phone (svg)
# iconnum = 16930
# masknum = 16930

# Exclamation point (bitmap)
#iconnum = 16772
#masknum = 16773

# Stop (bitmap)
iconnum = 16774
masknum = 16775


lock = e32.Ao_lock()

icon = appuifw.Icon(u"Z:\\RESOURCE\\APPS\\AVKON2.MIF", iconnum, masknum)

lb = appuifw.Listbox([(u"Nice icon", icon)], lambda: lock.signal())

appuifw.app.exit_key_handler = lambda: lock.signal()
appuifw.app.body = lb

lock.wait()

[miohtama]

Originally Posted by marcelobarrosalmeida

Hello

Is there any icon library available for pys60 ? I simple do not have any artistic capability, so...

Google tango icons. It is generic SVG icon library which can be converted to bitmap icons.