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Defining Regions

 A region is a collection of one or more layers that have the same region name. The constituent layers all have the same color, but appear separately in the layers pad.

The layers of a region can be interspersed freely with single layers, groups, and layers of other regions. You can use this property in combination with the change color action to define complex alterations of icon appearance.

The members of a region are included in the region by the fact that they have the same region name. Region names are arbitrary symbols: a region exists as soon as you name it as the region of one or more layers. A layer's region name (if any) appears at the bottom of each layer in the region. It also appears in the Region Indicator when the layer is selected.

To add a layer to a region:

  1. Select the layer.

    The first line of the Region Indicator shows the layer's region, or none if the layer does not belong to a region.

  2. Edit the region name in the Region Indicator to specify the desired region.

You can add additional layers to a region at any time. When you add a layer to a region, the layer takes on the color of the region. If you change the color of any layer in a region, the color of all other constituent layers changes to the new color.

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