
Customizing the piece style
There are several built-in styles for Quinns pieces you can choose from, and you can also use your own images. Choose Quinn > Preferences , and click the Appearance button in the toolbar.
- To use one of the piece styles that come with Quinn, drag an an item from the collection of images on the right to the image well on the left. (You can also double-click a piece style, or click it once and press return.)
- To add your own images to the collection of piece styles, click the + button and select one or more image files. Alternatively, you can drag the files to the image collection. Quinn will make a copy of your files, so you dont need to keep the originals.
Images must be exactly 140 pixels in width and 20 pixels in heightthats 20 times 20 pixels for each block, and may have any format supported by Mac OS X, such as TIFF or PNG. You can download many user-created piece styles from the Quinn website.
- To remove a piece style from the collection, select it and press the button. Alternatively, you can drag it to the Trash.
- To use a custom piece style without adding it to the collection, drag an image file to the image well on the left. Quinn remembers the piece style as long as you dont move or rename the file.
- To quickly preview a piece style, copy the image to the clipboard. In Quinns appearance preferences, click the image well on the left and choose Edit > Paste. Quinn will discard the piece style when you quit (or select another style).
- To return to the original piece style, click the button labeled Default.
Alternatively to using the preferences window, you can also drag images to the board in the main window while playing, or paste them there. Quinn automatically recognizes that the file is a piece style (rather than a background image) by the image size.
If youve created your own piece styles, you can send me an email to have them added to the Quinn website.
Quinn stores the images in the collection in the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Quinn/Piece Styles/.