The iCalamus tool palette offers the most important tools in tiny tool icons, organized in two columns.
These tools are separated into three visual, and four technical, groups. There are tools for creating and editing frames and objects, as well as help tools. For practical reasons, the edit tools are placed before the creation tools, as you will probably be editing frames and objects more often than creating them.
Some tool symbols offer a multi-selection. This is indicated by a tiny black corner in the bottom right of these symbols. If you want to see the other tool options in these tools, click with the mouse on the tool symbol and keep the mouse button pressed. Then a popup menu opens and lists the other tool options, which can then be selected with the mouse.
The currently chosen tool will then be checked beside its symbol in the tool palette.
Hint: You can cancel the usage of a tool at any time by pressing [Esc]. Then the last used tool will be selected again. In general, it will be the Selection tool. If you want to keep on using a tool, but need to switch to the selection tool temporarily, press [Command].
