Toni Epple's Blog

When you’re branding your application you usually replace existing icons with your own icons. But you can even “replace” icons that don’t exist at all :-). I had this idea reading a tip about Icon Branding on NetBeans Zone. Since NetBeans actions are using the iconBase approach it should be possible to add icons that are not there by default. For example most of the actions don’t supply an icon for rollover effects, and they rely on the default for disabled icons (which is the original displayed in greyscale). By adding these missing icons to your banding folder or module you can supply the missing parts and add a rollover effect for actions that didn’t have one before :-). In this branding Folder I have added a rollover icon (cut_rollover.gif) for the default cut action in the toolbar:

Have fun pimping your RCP app!