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Forum: Applications created with U++
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Topic: Symbol Picker — find, preview and manage icons for your U++ applications
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| Symbol Picker — find, preview and manage icons for your U++ applications [message #62078] |
Thu, 22 October 2026 04:54 |
dodobar
Messages: 30
Registered: April 2023
Location: Germany
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Hi all,
Symbol Picker has had quite an update. It started as a way to browse symbols, but has grown into a tool for maintaining an application’s icon collection—hopefully with a little less “where did I put that icon?” along the way.
Some highlights:
- Fast gallery browsing, with zoom buttons and Ctrl+wheel zoom.
- Outlined, rounded and sharp styles, with filled/unfilled options and 20 or 48 optical artwork.
- Offline search by name or embedded metadata.
- Olive light and dark themes, foreground tint and background previews.
- Application collections, including custom SVGs and raster images.
- Exports to PNG, SVG, C++ snippets and U++ IML/header libraries.
- Built-in utilities for comparing and preparing catalogue updates.
The idea is simple: build a collection for your application, save its .symbolpicker project, then return whenever you need to add or remove icons and export the set again. Projects store references rather than duplicating the artwork.
I’m now using it to maintain the shared Ui control icons, so it’s getting some real-world exercise too.
Source, documentation and downloads:
https://github.com/Trilec/upp_uisymbolpicker
Windows releases:
https://github.com/Trilec/upp_uisymbolpicker/releases
Feedback is welcome, particularly on the collection and export workflow. Most of my tools tend to orbit the same question: how can we make good interface design easier for programmers?
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Topic: UiFileBrowser — a themeable, sequence-aware file browser for U++
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| UiFileBrowser — a themeable, sequence-aware file browser for U++ [message #62074] |
Wed, 21 October 2026 13:16 |
dodobar
Messages: 30
Registered: April 2023
Location: Germany
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I’ve added UiFileBrowser to the Ui library. I wanted a browser that could follow an application’s styling and handle the numbered image sequences commonly used in visual effects.
The main features include:
- Image-sequence grouping, with frame ranges, increments and missing-frame information.
- Detail and thumbnail views, natural sorting, search and include/exclude filters.
- Breadcrumb navigation, history, places and pinned locations.
- Built-in JPEG, PNG and plain-text previews, with a provider interface for additional formats.
- Shared Ui theme and typography support, including light and dark appearances.
- Use as an embedded control or a modal file picker.
Sequence handling is particularly useful when a directory contains thousands of frames representing a handful of shots. A file browser should probably help with that administrative misunderstanding.
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