Using Options

The choices on the Options menu enable you to test your art and vary your editing environment. To change an option, from the Options menu, select:

Test

To view the pointer or icon you are editing. The pointer or icon will be displayed, in actual size, as the pointer until you toggle back by again selecting Test from the Options menu.
Grid
To superimpose a grid over the editing window. This can be useful when you want to draw a symmetrical figure. Each cell of the grid represents one pel in the figure.
X background
To make the transparent pels (where the background is visible) apparent when editing an icon or pointer. All screen or inverse-screen colors will be shown with an X. This option does not apply to bit maps because they have no transparent pels.
Draw Straight
To temporarily restrict your drawing to straight vertical and horizontal lines. Even if you deviate from the horizontal row, a horizontal line is produced when the mouse pointer is dragged across the editing window. Dragging the mouse up or down produces straight vertical lines.
Changing Pen Size
Select Pen size on the Options menu to specify how many pels the pointer paints at a time. You can select any of nine square pen sizes:

┌───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐
│ 1x1       │ 4x4       │ 7x7       │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│ 2x2       │ 5x5       │ 8x8       │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│ 3x3       │ 6x6       │ 9x9       │
└───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

Shortcut: Select a pen size by pressing Ctrl and the size, such as Ctrl+6 for a 6 x 6 pen size.

Setting Preferences
To change your preferences, select Preferences from the Options menu. Then select any of the following:

Safe prompting

Provide a warning before destructive operations such as file overwrites.
Suppress Warnings
Suppress display of informational messages.
Save state on exit
Save settings for your next session.
Display status area
Toggle between the picture of the mouse and the art from the status area.
Reset options and modes
Deselect the following items:

Select
Hot Spot
Color Fill
Find Color The palette will not be reset.

Changing Pen Shape
Before you select Pen Shape, you must first select the shape using the Select function on the Edit menu. See Editing Art for information about Select. Then select Set Pen Shape on the Options menu.
Defining a Hot Spot
The Hot spot is the pel where mouse input for an icon or pointer is directed. The default hot spot location is 16 x 16, the center of the icon or pointer. Bit maps do not have hot spots.

Select Hot spot from the Options menu to designate this pel. The cursor changes shape, and the screen coordinates of the current hot spot are displayed in the information window. When you click on a new hot spot, the screen coordinates of the new hot spot are displayed.

Select Hotspot again to return to editing.

When an application uses WinQueryPointerPos to query the screen position of a pointer, the OS/2 operating system returns the coordinates of the pointer hot spot.

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