Toolbar Bitmap Editor problem

[Catherine Kubitschek]

I'm trying to customize a toolbar in SPSS 14 by adding buttons for
user-defined items (OK, scripts) and I've run into a problem because the
button icons all look alike.  I've tried going into the Toolbar Bitmap
Editor but I'm doing something wrong.

I'm following the instructions from Help:
To Edit Toolbar Bitmaps
 From the menus choose:
  View
    Toolbars...
Select the toolbar you want to customize and click Customize.
Click the tool with the bitmap icon you want to edit on the example toolbar.
Click Edit Tool.
Use the toolbox and the color palette to modify the bitmap or create a new
bitmap icon.

At that point the BMP Editor comes up and I modify the image.  So far, so
good.  If I chose to Apply and exit the result is that the new icon is
filled with black-regardless of what it looked like in the editor.  Same
results if I click on the X to close the editor.  The only other exit from
the editor that I can find is Discard and exit (which leaves the icon
unchanged).

Actually, it is even stranger than this.  It looks like I can only "edit"
the first toolbar button even though the instructions say I can select the
tool icon to edit.

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.  Based upon _SPSS Programming
and Data Management_ (2nd ed.) p.14 and
http://www.spsstools.net/spsstips.htm#MyToolbar I know it mus be possible.

Thanks.


Catherine Kubitschek         ([hidden email])
Sr. Programmer/Analyst        574/631-3550
Institutional Research
210 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN  46556-5611

[Raynald Levesque-2]

Hi

This bug has been present since 3-4 versions.  The problem is not present in
the Beta version of v16.

As you noted, only the first icon can be edited. You therefore need to move
icons to the first position, edit them then move them to their intended
positions.

Regards
--
Raynald Levesque
www.spsstools.net


On 9/9/07, Catherine Kubitschek <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to customize a toolbar in SPSS 14 by adding buttons for
> user-defined items (OK, scripts) and I've run into a problem because the
> button icons all look alike.  I've tried going into the Toolbar Bitmap
> Editor but I'm doing something wrong.
>
> I'm following the instructions from Help:
> To Edit Toolbar Bitmaps
> From the menus choose:
>   View
>     Toolbars...
> Select the toolbar you want to customize and click Customize.
> Click the tool with the bitmap icon you want to edit on the example
> toolbar.
> Click Edit Tool.
> Use the toolbox and the color palette to modify the bitmap or create a new
> bitmap icon.
>
> At that point the BMP Editor comes up and I modify the image.  So far, so
> good.  If I chose to Apply and exit the result is that the new icon is
> filled with black-regardless of what it looked like in the editor.  Same
> results if I click on the X to close the editor.  The only other exit from
> the editor that I can find is Discard and exit (which leaves the icon
> unchanged).
>
> Actually, it is even stranger than this.  It looks like I can only "edit"
> the first toolbar button even though the instructions say I can select the
> tool icon to edit.
>
> Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.  Based upon _SPSS
> Programming
> and Data Management_ (2nd ed.) p.14 and
> http://www.spsstools.net/spsstips.htm#MyToolbar I know it mus be possible.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Catherine Kubitschek         ([hidden email])
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst        574/631-3550
> Institutional Research
> 210 Flanner Hall
> University of Notre Dame
> Notre Dame, IN  46556-5611
>

[Catherine Kubitschek]

Hi,

It's good to know I'm not crazy.  I can easily live with editing only first
position but is there a trick to editing it?  Every edit ends up with an
icon that is a black square.

Thanks.
Catherine

At 9/9/2007 05:51 PM, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>This bug has been present since 3-4 versions.  The problem is not present in
>the Beta version of v16.
>
>As you noted, only the first icon can be edited. You therefore need to move
>icons to the first position, edit them then move them to their intended
>positions.
>
>Regards
>--
>Raynald Levesque
>www.spsstools.net
>
>
>On 9/9/07, Catherine Kubitschek <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to customize a toolbar in SPSS 14 by adding buttons for
> > user-defined items (OK, scripts) and I've run into a problem because the
> > button icons all look alike.  I've tried going into the Toolbar Bitmap
> > Editor but I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> > I'm following the instructions from Help:
> > To Edit Toolbar Bitmaps
> > From the menus choose:
> >   View
> >     Toolbars...
> > Select the toolbar you want to customize and click Customize.
> > Click the tool with the bitmap icon you want to edit on the example
> > toolbar.
> > Click Edit Tool.
> > Use the toolbox and the color palette to modify the bitmap or create a new
> > bitmap icon.
> >
> > At that point the BMP Editor comes up and I modify the image.  So far, so
> > good.  If I chose to Apply and exit the result is that the new icon is
> > filled with black-regardless of what it looked like in the editor.  Same
> > results if I click on the X to close the editor.  The only other exit from
> > the editor that I can find is Discard and exit (which leaves the icon
> > unchanged).
> >
> > Actually, it is even stranger than this.  It looks like I can only "edit"
> > the first toolbar button even though the instructions say I can select the
> > tool icon to edit.
> >
> > Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.  Based upon _SPSS
> > Programming
> > and Data Management_ (2nd ed.) p.14 and
> > http://www.spsstools.net/spsstips.htm#MyToolbar I know it mus be possible.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Catherine Kubitschek         ([hidden email])
> > Sr. Programmer/Analyst        574/631-3550
> > Institutional Research
> > 210 Flanner Hall
> > University of Notre Dame
> > Notre Dame, IN  46556-5611
> >