New Personalplaner Icon

I'm not too happy with the Icon of the Personalplaner. It doesn't show any meaning that can be associated with the personalplaner and it doesn't realy look good.
So I made some designs for a new Icon for the Personalplaner.
I'm not really a good graphics designer so it took a while for me to think of some ideas and to be able to draw them.

For the drawing I used VecDraw and paint.net. paint.net is great and ideal for me because ist not too big, easy to use and most of all: it's for free.
This was also another good opurtunity for me to use and test VecDraw and see if it is really useable.


I want the Icon to show what the application is about or at least show a meaning that can be associated with it.

This was the first idea I had. It shows a P instead of the G that is contained in the original icon. But in the end this is not really an option because it doesn't look good at all...

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I thought something round would be nice but I discarded the idea right when I was finished:

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From then on it started getting better. I made a PP instead of of only just one P. In some I tried to add a layout displaying a plan.

I think one of the following will be the new icon.

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I will still try out some more things like adding a dropshadow to the letters. But basicaly I think it will be with one of the last designs.
I especialy like nr. 3, 4, 6 and 7. I am considering if it maybe should be a combination of the last 2 depending on the size of the image. You can't read much when the image is only 16x16 px...

Feel free to leave a comment adn tell me which one you favour.



Update:

I added a dropshadow and a little alpha blend to the letters because the red was too bright

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4.2

Plan merged to new design

I was able to finish merging the main plan of the Personalplaner to the new platform with the new design. The new Style makes all much smoother to look at and makes it easier to use.



With this done I can eliminate one of my greatest fears for failing in this project.
- I absolutely had no idea how I would create the view and split the data so that it would fit into the grids
- I did not know if I should create a complete new type of grid control or if I should use/extend an existing implementation of a grid
- I didn't know how I wanted to fill the data into the grids
- I was not shure how I could link the different grids with each other and still ensure code abstraction
- I was not shure if I could setup the data correctly to be able to use my MVVM implenmentation correctly

In the end I was able to do it just the way it was supposed to be and it all works eaven better than it used to :-)

Doing it corectly this time, I was able to eliminate about 3/5 of the code I used in the previous version.

VecDraw 0.5.55.11216

I released a new version of VecDraw.
I fixed some small bugs that caused the application to crash. In this new release I als changed the window style to have its own boarder instead of the glass border by Microsoft.


Changeset:
- Changed the Window style
- Fixed a bug that caused a crash when copy/pasting a single line
- Fixed different minor bugs


As allways VecDraw can be seen over at vecdraw.codeplex.com
And as allways you can download and use VecDraw for free!