Why no programmer icons?

templates is a good idea

well, buy yourself a graphic program, and create 1 yourself.

i agree with both of you, I've seen templates before, but we're not paid to do this so until we are, take what we give or have yourself a go at it

Horizon sure makes a point there. All the 'good' icon creators are doing payed jobs, I am sure that they won't create icons for free unless they have some spare time.

he means a template provided with the icon package to make it possible for the user to create additional icons.

(at least I think thats what he meant)

I've seen a few packages do that.

I suppose you could copy one of the icons and edit it.

you can always ask the creator of the icons to give you a template.

Some like James T, Carlitus, and Chad Ross have done so in the past (if you ask nicely)

The irony here is that graphic designers that have the talent to create their own icons have all the graphic apps icons already made for them, while the programer who's an idiot as far as design goes is left without much he can do about it.

I'd like to see the next gfx designer who asks for a specific feature in a program be answered "Well, buy yourself a good coding program and code it yourself!"

Yeah. I am with paxx! Think about this: Poor Bagginz is creating much of the IconPackager code. Probably all his icons are covered, except the ones he is using most: C, CPP, H and HPP.

does that mean you two are volunteering?
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I know what C is... but the others I haven't a clue!

C should be a text source file for plain C code.
CPP would be used for C++.
H is a header file for plain C.
HPP is a header file for C++.
Now that you know all this, does it help?

Possible to see the existing icons for these programs? That would help a bunch, otherwise I wouldn't be sure what direction to take these. I believe I saw an icon for C++ within the last 50 submissions in object dock.

They are fairly simple. They are often doc images with C, CPP, H or HPP on it.

#12 by MadIce - 10/4/2003 4:30:07 PM C should be a text source file for plain C code.CPP would be used for C++.H is a header file for plain C.HPP is a header file for C++.Now that you know all this, does it help?

Thanks! So basically its C and C++.

What is this header file business???

Anyway, I still stand by my previous post that Cahd Ross, James T and other icon makers usually have 'blanks' so all you have to do is put your favorite app icon or what have you inside of it.

A program is made from several source files. Generally C and CPP files. Each source file often has a header file: either a H or HPP file. Header files allow forward declarations and allow libraries distributed in a binary form without the source files. Those libraries have the LIB extenion. For a non-coder that doesn't mean much. Let's just say they are essential.

Nice to see I stirred up a discussion. As some of you probably guessed, I'm not an artist, so my skills are limited when it comes to artwork. Not that I coudln't do it, and template icons are a great thing. I've mostly used the FauxS icon sets, and I'll probably try to make them myself. Filetypes are, as mentioned above, not the big problem, but the tools like DevStudio, Perforce, Visual Works and similar would require some work by a "real" artist. I'm sure the programmers at StarDock would cheer if these made it into the default set of icons .

Meanwhile I'm going to figure out how my paint program works...

Actually, I asked this exact question some time ago and never got any responses...
But I think in one of Chad Ross' sets he has a SQL Server Ent. VS,VS.NET icon. Can't remember which set they're in though...
I remember he was taking requests and I asked about those and Viola!

I feel your pain AndreasAxelsson

FOOOD's website http://www.foood.net/icons/templates.htm offers some bubble icon templates, along with a tutorial on how to add your own image to the template. I believe you would need to have an icon program, in addition to PS (or PSP).

Hope that helps!