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    #1

    Import SVG icons

    I have an SVG icon I would like to add to my app. I can't figure out how to do it. I did open the svgicons.svg used by alpha to see if I could just cut and paste the data in, but it is obviously different. The readme file with the icons didn't make sense to me.
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    Re: Import SVG icons

    William, I dread doing this because I struggle with it everytime. If you have already created a local SVG definition, the only way I know how to add something into the definition is to redefine it and add all the files back in plus your new ones. Perhaps somebody else knows an easier way .. I'd also love to know how to do it.

    I take it you have seen Selwyn's video .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjR6mS3F4ds
    Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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      #3
      Re: Import SVG icons

      The UX has a property... Local SVG definitions... add it there. You'll find lots of good information inside the builder dialog for this property.

      Post your SVG definition and I'll add it... see how it turns out.

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        Re: Import SVG icons

        David, the Local SVG definitions is where you indicate which .svg file you are using. This is created by Alpha when it converts your definition to a mysvg.svg
        The problem becomes how do you now add new svg files to that mysvg.svg.

        Here's mine ...
        Attached Files
        Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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          #5
          Re: Import SVG icons

          Maybe... not sure... but that's not how I use this property. A standard set of SVG Icons are automatically included with Alpha. I create a new UX and can use one of the standard SVG Icons without having do to anything.

          Use the Local SVG Definitions to add to that standard set.

          Grab an SVG Icon from FlatIron and edit it with Notepad++, or something. Copy that SVG Definition. Open the Local SVG definitions property, Import SVG definition, paste your definition, give it a name, click ok. You'll now have 1 SVG Icon in Local SVG definitions.

          When you go to use an SVG Icon, the set is now Grouped... the included set, and Local SVG Icons... which now shows that 1 just added.

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            #6
            Re: Import SVG icons

            Using "local svg" in the search, I did find this in the documentation:

            https://www.alphasoftware.com/docume...efinitions.xml

            Didn't find that before, and I seem to have been able to import what I wanted and it looks fine, at least in the preview. But according to the documentation, it should appear in a part of the SVG icons listed as local, but it doesn't. So I was able to import the one I wanted, but still can't select it for my project.

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              #7
              Re: Import SVG icons

              And I have found that the icons are available, but not where I am using them.

              They don't seem to be available for the properties in the Tree Data Genie for the Expanding menu Genie.

              I think I will be sending a bug report about this.

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                #8
                Re: Import SVG icons

                Bug reported, received a response that it has been fixed, and will be in tomorrows pre-release.

                I figured I should add in the steps I took to add SVG icons to a UX.

                I placed the SVG icons I wanted to add into its own folder.

                The I selected the properties button on the left, scrolled down to the CSS/SVG section, then selected the button for Local SVG definitions.

                I selected the Import folder of SVG files link at the bottom of the window, clicked on the Select button and navigated to the folder that contained the icons, and clicked the Open button.

                I selected one of the files, but it imported the two I had in the folder. Then you need to fill in the prefix for all the icons.

                I then selected the Preview SVG Icons link at the bottom to make sure they were imported, selected the OK button, and saved my component.

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                  #9
                  Re: Import SVG icons

                  William, I need to thank you for this follow up - having this working correctly is of great benefit. Thanks..
                  Here's a sample of NEW Icons now showing - thanks.

                  ..
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                  Last edited by peteconway; 08-20-2017, 09:32 AM.
                  Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                  Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                  US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                    #10
                    Re: Import SVG icons

                    Nice Pete!

                    These are all done with custom SVG Linked files ...

                    SVG's.jpg
                    Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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                      #11
                      Re: Import SVG icons

                      Nice Stephen, well done.
                      Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                      Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                      US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                        #12
                        Re: Import SVG icons

                        Those look good. Eventually, I may hire somebody to make a group of custom icons for me.

                        Also, while the problem I mentioned above is fixed, it is only in the pre-release, until the next update. But it really affects the wizard, and there is a workaround. The only problem is that it isn't making the icon available to be chosen, but you can paste the icon into the field, and that works fine.

                        To make it easy, I created a button, made it icon only, (Button layout) chose the icon I wanted, (Image name) copied it out of the properties field. Deleted the button. Then pasted it into the Icon field in the Menu data genie of the expanding Menu Genie.

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                          Re: Import SVG icons

                          Originally posted by The Mage View Post
                          Using "local svg" in the search, I did find this in the documentation:

                          https://www.alphasoftware.com/docume...efinitions.xml

                          Didn't find that before, and I seem to have been able to import what I wanted and it looks fine, at least in the preview. But according to the documentation, it should appear in a part of the SVG icons listed as local, but it doesn't. So I was able to import the one I wanted, but still can't select it for my project.
                          Hello William,

                          What did you search for initially to try to find this information? We can fine-tune our search engine to provide better results on this topic.
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                            Re: Import SVG icons

                            Saying I didn't find it before is more about me than the documentation in that sentence. I may have been so focused on the term import that I may have glossed over the term local the first time so that one was on me.

                            My current search attempts involve trying to put a list count into a ControlBar, and how to update a parent ControlBar from an embedded UX.

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