Data Modelling icons - does anyone have any?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

In a recent post v15.2 - How to enhance "hardcoded" element shapescripts , I discussed how to add our shapescripts to the standard Data Modelling items.
Let me restate the requirement (in that post):
We wish to take advantage of the inbuilt (and hardcoded) Data Modelling functionality whilst allowing the use of a shapescript "overlay" that gives us more control over rendering.
Now I need to do the same with the icons.  Unfortunately, the icons are embedded in the internal technologies that are well encoded.  AFAIK, we (the users) haven't been able to reverse-engineer them.

Does anybody have a set of the 16x16 icons for the Data Modelling icons?  I know they aren't too hard to create, but I'm short for time and resources- so if I can just acquire them, rather than create them...

TIA,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

Paolo,

What I usually do when I need an icon from EA is

- take a printscreen
- select the 16x16 rectangle containing the icon and crop the image
- select the background
- fill the background with the magic color color 192.192.192
- save as .bmp

I use the free Paint.net to do this, and it takes no more then a few minutes per icon.

Geert

[Guillaume]

Thanks for the info Geert. It's indeed quite straightforward to do with Paint.Net.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Thanks for the info Geert. It's indeed quite straightforward to do with Paint.Net.

Thanks, Geert,

I'll give it a go tomorrow

Paolo

[Uffe]

For making icon icons, I find Greenfish is tough to beat. For everything else I use GIMP. And for screenshots, Greenshot.

And not to be a stickler or anything, but reverse-engineering is not permitted under the EULA. IANAL, but grabbing icons out of the GUI seems like a pretty clear violation to me.

It would be quite useful if Sparx could make their icon libraries available for use in shape scripts and stereotypes (browser icons).

/U

[Paolo F Cantoni]

For making icon icons, I find Greenfish is tough to beat. For everything else I use GIMP. And for screenshots, Greenshot.

And not to be a stickler or anything, but reverse-engineering is not permitted under the EULA. IANAL, but grabbing icons out of the GUI seems like a pretty clear violation to me.

It would be quite useful if Sparx could make their icon libraries available for use in shape scripts and stereotypes (browser icons).

/U

(my emphasis)
Even as I replied to Geert's suggestion, I could hear Uffe whispering in my right ear...

So in the end I decided it was just as easy for me to build our own.

Paolo

[Sunshine]

You could do a variation of Geert's suggestion by starting with free icons from a library such as those found on freepik or thenounproject
http://https://www.freepik.com/search?dates=any&format=search&page=1&query=database&selection=1&sort=popular&type=icon.
http://https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=database&i=652731
Download and open in Paint, Paint.Net or Gimp and shrink to 16x16 and colour as needed. Think you might even be able to download a 16x16 from one of those sites.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

You could do a variation of Geert's suggestion by starting with free icons from a library such as those found on freepik or thenounproject
http://https://www.freepik.com/search?dates=any&format=search&page=1&query=database&selection=1&sort=popular&type=icon.
http://https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=database&i=652731
Download and open in Paint, Paint.Net or Gimp and shrink to 16x16 and colour as needed. Think you might even be able to download a 16x16 from one of those sites.

Turned out to be simpler than I thought to create the half-a-dozen requied icons and shapescript decorations.  So all done now.

But thanks fo the pointers, there may be other icons and shpaes I might use.

Paolo