Remember folder when adding items

ebloom

Each time I add an asset or icon, the folder defaults to my home directory (using Linux Mint.) Then each time I need to navigate to the folder where I have the files saved. Could it remember the previous folder used? It would be OK to reset to home folder each time Objo starts. I know for assets I can select multiple items, this helps. But for the application icons I need to select each one individually. Thanks.

Garry

Yes, that makes sense. I've logged a feature request to remember the last folder used for image assets and app icons during the current Studio session. All app icon sizes would share the same remembered folder, including after closing and reopening the icon editor.

In the meantime, if you're using the same artwork at every icon size, you can select a single PNG using Choose Default... and Studio will generate the sizes for you. The individual slots let you override particular sizes with specially prepared artwork.

ebloom

Garry For app icons, I saw that other sizes were generated after I selected the first icon. However I already have different files for most sizes, and found it a bit painful to add them. I think xojo allowed drag/drop with the icons. That would make it easy if doable. Thanks again for the quick responses!

Garry

That makes sense, especially when you already have artwork prepared for each size. I’ve logged a separate feature request to let you drag PNGs directly onto the individual icon slots, or onto the default artwork preview. That should make adding your existing icon set much quicker.

Garry

This has now been added to the next release.

Garry

Drag and drop artwork is now also in for the next release, so adding your existing icon set should be much quicker.

You can drag PNGs from your file manager straight into the Application Icons dialog on Linux, macOS and Windows. Drop one onto the default artwork preview to set the default, or onto an individual size card to supply artwork for just that size. A valid target highlights as you hover over it.

A few details worth knowing:

Artwork dropped onto a size card must match that slot's exact square dimensions. Studio will not resize it, since artwork prepared for a particular size should be used exactly as authored.
Dropping onto the default preview accepts any valid PNG and generates the other sizes from it, so that is the quickest path when one file covers everything.
Folders, files that aren't PNGs and dropping several files at once are rejected with an explanation, and nothing changes when a drop is rejected.
The Choose Default... and Choose PNG... buttons remain available and still share the session's remembered folder mentioned earlier in this thread.

Full details are on the feedback page: Drag and drop PNG artwork into the app icon editor