Here some screenshots:

Each object can be moved, resized and changed in several ways.

The Sclera Picto type is also nice:

And can be used to create a new Custom Picto:

Categories can be selected to used in the picto list

The Custom Pictos are automaticly added to the picto list and can be managed in a dialog:

As said i’m now testing this version. Very soon I hope to create a beta which can be tested and translated.

I want it to be possible to copy a picto item from a existing pictosheet or the picto list to Picto Creator.

Part of Picto Creator is a new system of creating symbols. I’m working together with Bart Serrien of Sclera to create a picto that is a combination of several images into one new image. So far i’m calling it Sclera Picto.

The images can be combined into 1,500,000 pictos for example:

and

Of courser a lot of those combinations are not usable for normal use or very unlikely. But we want to extend this further and it looks very promising.

To do:

• Copying of picto’s to Picto Creator, both from the picto sheet and pictolist – almost ready
• Adding the Sclera Picto as a new picto type to both picto sheets and Picto Creator – not started yet
• Adding Picto Creator to the database (to store it’s pictos in the database) – not started yet
• Implementing synchronization of the Picto Creator pictos – not started yet
• Implementing selection of Picto Creator pictos in the Picto List – not started yet

Enough to do

An example, no background information entered:

Then I start with the (0,0) pixel:

As you can see there is a part which is not yet known as background, so we add a point there:

And finally I want to make the background more smooth by increasing the tolerance that is used to to replace the colors. For the Sclera symbols it seems that 50 is a good value:

What I did was using fill position (0,0) and tolerance 50 for all Sclera symbols and i’m now checking for more fill positions. And sometimes I have to decrease the tolerance to get a better result.

The good news is that the Mulberry have already a perfect transparent background. The bad news is that it take some time to check all other symbols

Here an example of a pictosheet with several background colors:

The transparency will also be added to the Picto Creator.

Here an example of a sunday symbol:

And what if I want to change this one?

Now I want a symbol of this dog without tail:

Just use the dog as a background and put something in front of the tail…

It is also possible to use images: zoom and rotate them:

So stay tuned i hope to have this ready before the end of this year

• 226 new Sclera symbols, translated to english, dutch, french
• Czech language, many thanks to Hana Kubíková
• Insert selected Pictos into Word, with a options dialog in the settings menu
• Network symbols. Almost the same as User Symbols, but you can only choose a network location and it is available for all computers in the network (using the same database)

Changes:

• Now also possible to print the picto names above the pictos

Fixed problem:

• In some situations a extra line was printed at the right side of the symbols
• In some situations a there was a problem with the language selection dialog, it made it impossible to change the language
• It was impossible to copy a original layout template

The new version can be installed by selecting the menu item “Check for updates” in the “Help” menu.

NEW: Reward Cards
This is a new application that can be used to create reward cards (a card for stamps). We use it on our school to track the amount of books readed by some students.

http://www.pecsforall.com/rewardcards/
Succes,
Martijn

• 605 Mulberry symbols, translated to nl, en and fr
• 204 Sclera symbols, translated to nl, en and fr
• a layout template for 2 symbols and 1 Text, used by school “De Ruimte”

Fixed:

• problem with copied photo pictos on a network database
• storing the print cutting edge was failing (it stayed on)

The new version can be installed by selecting the menu item “Check for updates” in the “Help” menu.

We besloten hem daar te laten en eerst duidelijk te krijgen wat de komende dagen zou gaan gebeuren. Die zaterdag gingen we dus naar mijn vaders huis en lieten hem zonder dat hij ergens van wist bij de opvang.

Aan het eind van die dag wisten we meer en gingen we nadenken hoe we hem moesten inlichten en voorbereiden. We maakten het volgende schema en zondagmiddag ging mijn vrouw hem ophalen.

We begonnen met uitleggen wat er gebeurd was en dat we de hond die zaterdag naar een pension gebracht hadden.

We vervolgenden met de belangrijkste zaken. Bij het uitleggen moesten we van hem er per dag bij schrijven dat hij die dag niet naar school zou gaan.

Dat dit allemaal zichtbaar was maakte het hem een stuk duidelijker en hij pakte het goed op. En toen hij maandagmorgen vroeg of hij mocht computeren kon ik hem terug verwijzen naar dit schema waarop hij kon zien dat we eerst naar het huis zouden gaan en dat hij daar zou computeren.

Die vrijdag was de begrafenis en dat was wat lastiger in beeld te brengen omdat er zo veel activiteiten zouden zijn. Toch gaf het hem die week veel rust dat hij een idee had wat er zou gaan gebeuren en dat we vrijdags weer naar huis zouden gaan en zaterdag’s de hond weer zouden halen.

Het ging goed die week met hem, een aantal keer moesten we nog wat verduidelijken of aanvullen, maar hij had waarschijnlijk heel wat meer problemen gehad als we dit niet zichtbaar hadden gemaakt.

• 91 Sclera symbols, translated to Dutch, English, German and French
• A few buttons in the layout template editor to copy entered information like position and width of symbols to all other pictos in the template

Fixes:

• Photo symbols in the network situation were not properly saved, they only worked on the system they were created and not on the other systems in the network. Resaving such sheet will fix this now.

The new version can be installed by selecting the menu item “Check for updates” in the “Help” menu.

I’ve also received over 700 new sclera symbols, i’m currently translating them to dutch and will send a update to the other translators…

This version is now using a database system to store it’s information. Initially it will work just like before. But it is possible to put the database on a network server. Some documentation (in english) is included to tell what is needed if you want to use Picto Selector from multiple systems at the same time.

This version includes:

• database phase 1: local database – no need to install a database system, it is included in Picto Selector itself
• database phase 2: network database – see documentation how to make this work
• database phase 3: manual and semi automatic synchronization – use a local database and put a database on a network, you can synchronize your information to this database. Very usefull for laptops which are regulary connected with a network.
• portable: put the complete installation (including images) on a removable disk to run it in portable mode
• svg image support, the nounproject svg files (http://www.thenounproject.com/) can be used as user pictos, thanks to Nils Haeck M.Sc. of www.simdesign.nl who donated the source to enable this.

More information about the Picto Selector database is available at:
Picto Selector Blog about database

Additions:

• usermanager, all sheets are now owned by a user. Only the Administrator is allowed to:
  • Synchronize the database to another network database
  • Import Symbol set package
  • Change Picto Folder
  • Hide Categories (this is no longer stored in the registry)
  • Configure Database
  • User Pictos which are only active for the current computer, on other systems they need to be added again.
    This works this way because the location can be different for each computer
  • Manage Layout Templates

Changes:

• menu structure has changed to reflect the possibility to reload and save picto sheets and some options are moved to a configuration menu

Good to know:

• The administrator can not be removed
• When a password is given to the administrator then all users can enter a password
• The startup time of Picto Selector has improved a lot (except for the first time)

This is the new beta including the database part, which means that there is a lot to translate.

If you already started with translating the earlier beta, please send me what you finished so far and I will update your work with some new texts.

You can find the beta at:

If you want you can install it over the old Picto Selector, or use another folder and change the pictofolder. The database in this version will be updated when needed.

This version includes:

• database phase 1: local database
• database phase 2: network database
• database phase 3: manual and semi automatic synchronization
• portable: put the complete installation (including images) on a removable disk to run it in portable mode
• svg image support, the nounproject svg files (http://www.thenounproject.com/”) can be used as user pictos, thanks to Nils Haeck M.Sc. of www.simdesign.nl who donated the source to enable this.

Also several bugfixes on the earlier version.

(Update 27 january 2011) Now working on a final build and all the needed documentation, website updates etc for this new version. Will go life this weekend if nothing bad shows up