Custom icons in stereotyped artifacts

[Uffe]

Hi all,

Too lazy to try this for myself.

Is it possible to specify a custom icon for a stereotyped artifact, while retaining all other aspects of the base shape script?
In other words, is there a decoration sub-shape I can override and include my own image, or something along those lines?

Cheers,


/Uffe

[qwerty]

Either DrawNativeShape or DrawParentShape seem to be the right candidates.

q.

[Uffe]

Well yes, I know I can call those to do the bulk of the work. But I'm concerned that will draw the artifact icon, which I want to avoid -- I want to avoid having to do pixel-by-pixel edits of my images to make sure they cover what's drawn by the native shape.

Put another way, I don't want to paint over the artifact icon. I want to override the drawing of it.

/U

[Eve]

The best you could do is to drawnativeshape and then draw explicitly over that corner including a fill for the entire icon background. Of course you'll want to disable gradients on the top or right if you take that approach.

[Uffe]

OK. Thanks, Simon.

/U

[Paolo F Cantoni]

The best you could do is to drawnativeshape and then draw explicitly over that corner including a fill for the entire icon background. Of course, you'll want to disable gradients on the top or right if you take that approach.

That's what we do - because as Boss says:  "Sol, icons ain't icons".  That is to say that although there are icons on the shape, using the diagram "do not draw icons" property will not suppress them...

We have a shape named "label" that allows us to override the label.  We have a shape named "main" that allows us to override the main shape.  Why can't we have a shape named "icon" that will override the icon (if there is one)?

It's a rhetorical question.   

Paolo