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This task is about extending the tool from "Step 2: Colors" to support the basic foreground shapes dot, bowl, circle, bar, stripe, cross, x, slash, triangle, diamond, rectangle, pointer, fork, turned_T, L, lower, corner. Adding support for background shapes and the more complicated foreground shapes / images will be done in step 4.

• It would be possible to draw all shapes manually, but since support for image based shapes is needed anyway, it probably makes sense to load each symbol from an image, possibly an .svg file
• Create a file bar.svg in inkscape that has a blue bar symbol
• Replace the manual bar painting in the code with loading bar.svg and paint it on top
• Find a way to adjust the color of the image. Ideally this can be done automatically in the code. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15123544/change-the-color-of-an-svg-in-qt for some potential ways.
• Add support (i.e. .svg files) for the basic shapes dot, bowl, circle, bar, stripe, cross, x, slash, triangle, diamond, rectangle, pointer, fork, turned_T, L, lower, corner

Test your application using different colors and symbols.

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