This is the Bling Bar.

It includes the following tools:

•Bling Palette Editor

•Background Color

•Bling Types of the Active Bling Palette with the corresponding order number.

➢Click on the "Bling Palette Editor" to open it.

Each bling type of the list is assigned to an order number. Any change made in the Bling Palette Editor will affect to the active design only.

This tool has 3 parts:

•The Bling Type List, at the left

•Palette load / save and order control at the bottom

•The Bling Type Library or catalog at the right

•Bling Type Assignment functions at the bottom.

You can apply to this panel:

Change order:

To arrange the order of the items, click on one and use the up and down arrows (middle panel) until you locate it in the desired position. You can also use the context menu to move an item up or down into the list, one position at a time.

Remove item:

Click on the item you want to remove to highlight it and click on the single red cross right at the bottom, or double click on it.

Add an item:

Select the piece you want to add from the library (right panel), drag it into the list and drop it at the desired position. You will see blue horizontal marks appearing and disappearing between the items; they are indicating the position the item will take if you drop it in that moment.

Replace an item:

Dropping a piece between 2 items of the list will add items. Dropping over an item will replace the former item.

A group of tabs located at the top of the library allows you to search the catalog by bling type:

oRhinestones

oRhinestuds

oNailheads

oSequins

oSpangles

How to select a bling type?

➢Click on the tab corresponding to the bling type you want to browse.

➢Click on one of the listed shapes for that bling type. Available models (size and color) will be displayed.

➢Select the size and color.

Star icon:

Stepping on a piece of the bling type library, and clicking on this icon will place a little yellow star on the upper left margin of the selected bling type and will add it to the Favorites tab. You can have all you most used bling type on the favorites tab for a quicker selection. Click over the star icon to unmark the piece and delete it from the favorites tab.

Add / Replace from bling palette (bling type list):

A group of arrow icons allow you easily add and replace pieces from the bling palette. When you step on a piece on the right panel, if the arrow icons are colored, it means that it is not currently included in the bling palette and you can simply click on the green arrow to add it or in the yellow arrow to replace the piece selected in the palette (left panel) for it.

Instead, if the arrow icons are disabled (gray), it means that the piece selected in the library is already included in the bling palette.

You can use the single red cross below the palette to remove the selected piece or you can double click on it.

By default, the application shows a predefined bling palette to let you start working.

However, you may want to create an entire new one, starting from zero. This tool, located at the bottom of the palette clears the entire bling palette, producing an empty, fresh list.

Once you create your own bling palette, or modify the existing one, you can save it to disk for permanent storage as a Bling Palette.

Click on the Save function and enter a name in the save dialog box for your new Bling Palette, then click OK to confirm.

Previously saved bling palettes can be loaded using the Open function.

Press the right mouse button on the desired palette from the Bling Palette List and select "Open".

When you execute this function, the bling palette shows the list with the names of all previously saved bling types.

Use this function to permanently delete saved Bling Palettes.

Press the right mouse button on the desired palette from the Bling Palette List and select "Delete palette".

The default bling palette is the palette loaded in the Bling Bar each time you create a new design document tab.

Click on Default function to set the current bling palette as the default palette.

Right click on any piece in the bling bar to open a menu with more functions.

Select a new bling type to add to the current bling palette.

A bling Type Selector tool opens.

1.Select a bling type (the tabs and top panel show all the bling types available in the bling type library).

2.Once a type is selected, the panels are updated to display the available sizes and colors for that type. Use the left panel and select a size.

3.Once you select a size, the catalog is updated to show all the colors available for that type and size. Click on the desired one and press Add.

The Bling Type Selector is a graphic list available in many bling tooltabs.

It displays the bling types of your bling palette.

By default, the types are sorted by color and size but you may set the application to use the palette order (Options and Preferences - Project - Bling - Bling Type Selector sort by).

The bling designs (native format) save the information of the used bling palette. Then, when you open an existing design, no matter what the bling palette of this document is, the bling bar will show the bling palette previously saved within the design.

You can change the current bling palette with a custom bling palette.  In this case, the current bling bar is replaced by the new loaded bling palette, keeping the bead’s order: piece #1 of the old bar is replaced by piece #1 of the new one, old #2 by new #2 and so on.