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manual:Icon_Chooser [2017/08/24 23:46]
peternlewis
manual:Icon_Chooser [2021/10/04 03:44]
peternlewis
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 Keyboard Maestro includes an Icon Chooser and creator to allow you to select custom icons for your macro groups and macros. Keyboard Maestro includes an Icon Chooser and creator to allow you to select custom icons for your macro groups and macros.
  
-You can display the Icon Chooser by choosing [[Menus#Window_Icon_Chooser|Icon Chooser]] from the [[Menus#​Window|Window ​menu]].+You can display the Icon Chooser by choosing ​the [[Menus#Icon_Chooser|Window ➤ Icon Chooser menu]].
  
-{{ iconchooserinternal.png?​393x442 |Icon Chooser Window }}+{{ iconchooserinternal.png?​nolink&393x442 |Icon Chooser Window }}
  
 Click on an image well for a macro or macro group (in Edit mode), and then click on an icon in the Icon Chooser to select it. Click on an image well for a macro or macro group (in Edit mode), and then click on an icon in the Icon Chooser to select it.
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 * Character – icons you create based on a character. * Character – icons you create based on a character.
  
-The [[Windows#​Icon_Chooser_Window|Character Icon Choose pane]] allows you to create your own custom icons by setting a few simple parameters.+The [[Windows#​Icon_Chooser_Window|Character Icon Choose pane]] allows you to create your own custom icons by setting a few simple parameters. ​You can set the background and foreground color, shape, and an optional character:
  
-{{ iconchoosercharacter.png?​286x273 |Icon Chooser Window }} +{{ iconchoosercharacter.png?​nolink&​425 ​|Icon Chooser Window }}
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-You can set the background and foreground color, shape, and an optional character:​ +
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-{{ iconchoosermenu.png?​634x517 ​|Icon Chooser Window }}+
  
 When you have a Macro or Macro Group icon well selected, and you make any change in the Icon Chooser, or if you click the icon in the Icon Chooser, then the icon for the Macro/Macro Group will be set. When you have a Macro or Macro Group icon well selected, and you make any change in the Icon Chooser, or if you click the icon in the Icon Chooser, then the icon for the Macro/Macro Group will be set.
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 To load the Icon Chooser from an existing Macro or Macro Group, select the icon well of the Macro/Macro Group and then open the Icon Chooser (close it first if necessary). To load the Icon Chooser from an existing Macro or Macro Group, select the icon well of the Macro/Macro Group and then open the Icon Chooser (close it first if necessary).
  
-If not icon well is selected when you open the Icon Chooser then it will retain the settings that were last used.+If an icon well is //​not// ​selected when you open the Icon Chooserthen it will retain the settings that were last used.
  
-Note that icons configured from the Icon Chooser will be very small in storage size in your macros.  ​(!) Icons set any other way (including copy & paste from another icon) will be *much* larger.+Note that icons configured from the Icon Chooser will be very small in storage size in your macros. ​ Icons set any other way will take up more storage in your macros.
  
 To transfer an Icon Chooser created icon from one macro to another, use this process: To transfer an Icon Chooser created icon from one macro to another, use this process:
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 * Select the target icon well. * Select the target icon well.
 * Click on the icon in the Icon Chooser. * Click on the icon in the Icon Chooser.
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manual/Icon_Chooser.txt · Last modified: 2023/10/03 04:09 by peternlewis