Editing Image And Sound Files Using External Programs; To Edit Image Files; To Edit Sound Files - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

Working With the Resource Manager

Editing Image and Sound Files Using External Programs

TPDesign v2.2 (or higher) supports the use of external programs for editing image and/or sound
files used in your project. You must first associate one or more external editing programs with
Image files, and another for Sound files. Once you have indicated a program to be used as the
default editor, you can access it via the Edit button in the Images and Sounds tabs of the Resource
Manager dialog.
Use the options in the Editor Selection tab of the Preferences dialog to add external
image and sound editing programs, and specify the default editors.

To edit image files:

1. Open the Images tab of the Resource Manager dialog.
2. Select the image file that you want to edit.
3. Click the Edit button to launch the external program specified as the default editor for image
files.

To edit sound files:

1. Open the Sounds tab of the Resource Manager dialog.
2. Select the sound file that you want to edit.
3. Click the Edit button to launch the external program specified as the default editor for sound
files.
4. When the edit session begins, the image or sound file is opened in the default editing program,
and control is returned to TPDesign4. Any saved changes to the resource made in the external
editor will be immediately reflected in TPDesign4.
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• Import: Click to invoke the Open dialog. Use this dialog to locate and select image and
sound files to import into this tab.
Note: When images of any (supported) file type except PNG are imported into
a project, the files are automatically converted to JPGs. For this reason, if you
import (or paste) a file that has the same name as a previously imported file
(even if it has a different extension), TPDesign4 automatically adds the "copy
of" prefix to the file. PNGs are not converted because they are already suffi-
ciently compressed.
• New: This option is available only on the Dynamic Images tab (and replaces the
Import button that is on the other tabs). Click to open the Create Dynamic
Image dialog, which allows you to add dynamic images to your project.
• Export: Use this option to export one or more files to a specified directory. Use the
Choose Directory dialog to pick the target directory.
• List Style: Click the down-arrow to open a drop-down list of the available display options
for this tab:
Small Icons - lists the files in columns, with small file icons.
List - lists the files in a single column, with small file icons.
Details - lists the files with file size and image dimension descriptions.
Thumbnails - displays a thumbnail image of each file.
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