Introduction

EdPatt (Pattern Editor) is a simple graphical tool designed to help program developers and designers to incorporate small bitmaps, icons and filled patterns into their applications. For such, EdPatt offers an interactive man-machine interface in which the user draws his/her images in a colored cell grid (see snapshot).

Once drawn, these images can the saved in several file formats: Device Independent Bitmaps (.bmp), Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Tagged Image File Format (.tif), Join Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), etc. Moreover, the editor exports some interesting Tecgraf image formats: LED image (.led), IUP/Lua image (.lua), IUP/C header files (.ih), LPATT simple format (.lpa) and Pattern Editor's old file format (.pat).

The saved images can be programatically loaded and manipulated by other IUP/CD applications by means of the LPATT Library (recommended reading for developers).