The AddIcon function stores an icon image into a help database file.  This is a necessary step before an icon can be used in a custom Snippets palette.

Once stored, the icon can be referenced by the name icon_name when associating the icon with a task in a Snippets palette (see DocumentTools[AddPaletteEntry] for details).

If hdb=target is not given, the icon will be stored in your default tasks.help file.

The pathname(s) to the icon image file and/or .help file can be absolute or relative to currentdir.

For information regarding the specification of filename and pathname, see filename and backslash.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{DocumentTools}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{AddIcon}\left(''Task\; 1\; icon''\,\mathrm{path}=''/path/to/icon/file.png''\right)$

$\mathrm{AddPaletteEntry}\left(''Task\_1''\,\mathrm{palette}=''My\; palette''\,\mathrm{icon}=''Task\; 1\; icon''\right)$

The DocumentTools[AddIcon] command was introduced in Maple 16.

For more information on Maple 16 changes, see Updates in Maple 16.