Sugar Standard Icons

This page is a quick tutorial on how to use the standard icons in your activities.

Standard Sugar Cursors

They are available at dev.laptop.org/artwork

usage with pygame

1. Download the Sugar-Icons from here
2. Extract the icon you want to use (36x36 px)
3. Save it as an .xbm image (width dividable by 8 (eg. 40x40 px))
4. Create a mask. This is done with the tool xbm-mask
   ("xbm-mask my_cursor_file.xbm" creates a file called "my_cursor_file_mask.xbm")
5. Now, in pygame you can use this code:

a, b, c, d = pygame.cursors.load_xbm("my_cursor_file.xbm", "my_cursor_file_mask_mask.xbm")
pygame.mouse.set_cursor(a, b, c, d)

• To get the white border around the icons, you need to make another mask:
  1. Draw a black line around the white border of the icons
  2. Save it as .xbm (eg. black pointer > white border > black border > transparency)
  3. Create a (and overwrite the old) mask-file again
  4. Remove the black border around the white one
  5. Save and enjoy!