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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity Expert
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April 21, 2017
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FM-14: Custom icons not accepted

  • April 21, 2017
  • 3 replies
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There are severe problems to customise FM-14: Either code has been messed up or the technique has completely changed without documenting it.

This all has worked perfectly in FM-13. See my website.

For tests I change temporarily the files in %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\14\ (user area)
In WorkSpaces\UnStructured\WYSIWYGView\toolbars\table_format.xml :
from 

      <images base="S_ADDCOLS"/>

to

        <ACTION command="AddColumnsToRight" tooltip="Add Column to Right">
            <images base="etb_ADDCOLS"/>
        </ACTION>

In the user area I have these icon files extracted (and renamed) from fmcustom.dll:

   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N.png
   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N_2X.png
   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N_3TO2X.png
   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N_D.png
   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N_D_2X.png
   etb_ADDCOLS_SM_N_D_3TO2X.png

The result is disgusting:
The button does not appear in the toolbar and for the (in the tool bar) following buttons the function and icon are out of sync:

The function is that of the missing icon and this is what the tool tip displays!

If have tried all sorts of naming for the custom icon file. Nothing works (the first is in subdir etb_icons):
   <images base="etb_icons\table_col_add"/>
   <images base="etb_ADDCOLS"/>
   <images base="ETBADDCOLS"/>

What the heck is going on here?

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    Correct answer amitjha-lt

    Amit,

    Beware, I do not edit the dll. I use ResHacker only to extract the icons and list them (in a pdf).

    To create a new tool bar, I use the mechanism which was reliable since years: provide a set of icon files (*.png) in the user area and refer to them (with the base name) in the tool bar file (*.xml).

    Just for lazyness, I used icons extracted from the dll and then colorized them, gave a new base name and try to use them in the user area. If I see that the process works, I will create my own icon files.


    Thanks again for pointing out it.

    We checked and with new rendering engine to support high resolution this part is broken currently. We will look into it.

    Thanks

    Amit Jha

    3 replies

    4everJang
    4everJang
    Legend
    November 25, 2018

    Thanks guys. I will write a blog post about hijacking the table formatting toolbar, using custom icons and a set of extendscript routines. First I need to make it work and get a big smile on the customer's face.

    Ciao

    4everJang
    4everJang
    Legend
    November 23, 2018

    Hello Klaus,

    Was there any news since the last post about this? I am trying to make custom toolbar icons work in FM15 but have not been able to make your sample images appear. It would be nice to know how I can make this work within a couple of weeks.

    Thanks in advance

    Jang

    K.Daube
    Community Expert
    K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
    Community Expert
    November 24, 2018

    Yes, Jang, eventually I got the necessary information which is now in the document etb-customising-fm14.pdf Adobe changed the naming scheme for the custom icons. See page 25 of the pdf: «The naming scheme differs to the scheme used in the DLL: the leading S_ is not necessary, the intermediate _SM_N must not be present.»

    HTH

    Klaus

      A
      Adobe Employee
      amitjha-lt
      Adobe Employee
      April 21, 2017

      Hi Daube

      Thanks for reporting this issue. We checked and we found an issue around this. We logged a bug for this.

      We are investigating an workaround and we will get back to you.

      Thanks

      Amit Jha

        A
        Adobe Employee
        amitjha-lt
        Adobe Employee
        April 22, 2017

        Hi

        We checked and found, this issue is occurring because any image which doesn’t start with “S_” flows through old workflow in our code and “_C_S” is appended for those. For images which start with “S_”, appropriate string “_SM_N”  or “_SM_N_2X” or “_SM_N_3TO2X” is appended based on resolution.

        To get newly added images in dll to work correctly, it should start with “S_” and end with either “_SM_N”  or “_SM_N_2X” or “_SM_N_3TO2X” for three variations.

        Later, we will make changes make it simple.

        Thanks

        Amit Jha

        K.Daube
        Community Expert
        K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
        Community Expert
        April 22, 2017

        Thanks Amit, for this information.

        My understanding of the proces is that the files in %appdata%... are an addition to those in the dll and hence are taken if the name is not found in the dll. Hence I will try to name my icons S_etb_something_N etc.

        Is this a correct assumption?

        Thank you for an answer

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