To include an image in an icon:
You can use the Icon Editor to define a single image as a component of a layer, and to combine such layers into one layer with multiple images. A layer that includes an image can also contain other graphics and text defined with the Icon Editor, just as if no image were present.
demos directory, as described under GIF Files.
To include an image in an icon:
To put more than one image into a layer, specify each in a separate layer, then combine the layers using the
Group button, as described under Creating Groups. Only the first image in the combined layer appears in the layer's Image Indicator. Use Ungroup to regain separate access to the components of the combined layer.
Image Size and Icon Size
The size of an image does not affect the icon size. When the icon's width and/or height is larger than the image, the image occupies only a portion of the icon. When the icon's width and/or height is smaller than the image, the image is cropped at the boundary of the icon.
To have an image determine the icon size:
Edit the Icon Editor width and height indicators to have the values of the Width-of-image and Height-of-image attributes of the image-definition table.
Image Position
By default, G2 positions an image with its top left corner (the image's (0, 0)) at the top left corner of its layer (the layer's (0,0)). To position an image elsewhere in its layer, you can enter an (X, Y) offset after the image name.
To position an image in a layer:
Image value to edit the image name.
at.
wizard at (18, 20);
wizard now appears in its layer with its upper left corner 18 units to the right and 20 units down from the upper left corner of the icon. If the size of the icon is 100x100, and the size of the image is 64x54, this offset positions the image just above the center of the icon:
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