You can create a set of custom icons to personalize your FreedomŽ nyms. The custom nym icons replace the default Freedom icons, and are part of a long, single image file, resembling a strip of film. Creating custom nym icons consists of three steps: creating a new folder, creating an empty image file, and pasting images into the empty file.
To create the new folder for the icon file:
1.Browse to the Freedom installation directory (the default location is \Program Files\Zero Knowledge\Freedom
).
2.Create a new folder named Visuals
below the Freedom installation directory.
To create the new custom icon file:
1.Quit Freedom.
2.Open the \Visuals
folder you created previously.
3.Start your bitmap editor (any program that can save as BMP format can be used).
4.Create a new bitmap that is 40 pixels high by 40 pixels times the number of icons wide.
For example, if you have 10 icons, you would create a new bitmap that is 40 pixels high by 400 pixels wide.
5.Save the file as nymicons.bmp
in the \Visuals
folder.
Leave the nymicons.bmp
file open for the following steps.
To add the custom icons:
1.Open the images you want to use as icons.
2.Resize each image to 40 pixels wide by 40 pixels high.
3.Copy the first 40x40 image. This is the image that Freedom will display when there is no nym selected.
4.Paste it in the nymicons.bmp
file so the top left corner of the pasted image is aligned with the top left corner of the the nymicons.bmp
file (the 0, 0 position).
5.Copy the next 40x40 bitmap.
6.Paste it to the immediate right of the previous image.
When pasting the images into the new bitmap, DO NOT include any borders or space between the bitmaps. Freedom defines each width of 40 pixels as an icon.
7.Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each new image you want to include as an icon.
8.Save the nymicons.bmp
file.
When you start Freedom, your custom icons will appear.
IMPORTANT: The first icon in the nymicons.bmp
bitmap is automatically assigned to True Identity.