### Container tool

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In iCalamus, you can easily create empty frame containers for several purposes.

Puslishers use to place substitutes for layout areas which have not been created or designed. Use the container frames which only show the frame shape as a guide (if you have switched frame guides visible). Furthermore, a diagonal cross indicates that these are empty frames. (We also use a diagonal cross e.g. to indicate transparent mode in color lists.)

If you want to shape or mask an image with a shape, iCalamus offers several ways to do so. The easiest and fastest way is creating one of the available container shape frames, place the image there and you're done with the masked image.

You can convert containers to normal frames afterwards by assigning a new content to them.

Here is a list of the available container shapes, which is identical with the available normal shapes.

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Choose the desired container type in the Container tool by right clicking on the Container tool symbol in the Toolbox panel. Alternatively, keep the mouse button pressed until the container tools menu appears, from which you can choose the container type. Now create a new frame in the document by dragging the mouse. If you press [Escape] before you release the mouse button, the currently shown container will be deleted immediately.

The 'simple' container shapes are listed in the first group. The 'dynamic' container shapes are listed in the last group, sorted by complexity. You can change parameters for the dynamic containers in the Paleta Zawartośćr.