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Request: emoticons displayed
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:28 am
by suicidalmoose
Programs like adium utilize growl really well, but i was wondering whether it would be possible to have emoticons displayed on growl messages. ie: if you're familiar with msn6/7 on M$ Windows, then you'll notice that when a contact comes online and he/she has an emoticon in his name, the emoticon is actually displayed on the sign in message (ie its displayed as
Person
rather than being displayed as :DPerson:D). Is it possible, or too difficult. Same goes with notificiations of new messages.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:30 am
by The_Tick
Can you show a screenshot of that here?
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:30 pm
by ofri
IIRC, we don't allow images inside the notification description/title -
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+ (void) notifyWithTitle:(NSString *)title
description:(NSString *)description
notificationName:(NSString *)notifName
iconData:(NSData *)iconData
priority:(signed int)priority
isSticky:(BOOL)isSticky
clickContext:(id)clickContext;
notifyWithTitle:(
NSString *)title
description:(
NSString *)description
and therefor, no emoticons can be displayed in a growl notification.
If i'm right, you should probably
fill a ticket about it.
-- Ofri
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:45 am
by suicidalmoose
sorry bout not being able to post a screenshot, I just sold my PC and only have a Powerbook G4 available to me (cute little 12" with 1.2 gigs of ram!). Is it worth filing a ticket if growl is programmed so that emoticons cannot be displayeD?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:36 pm
by engla
In some large feature bump of growl, shouldn't we allow NSAttributedStrings for descriptions? That way you can display images inline.
It could be a problem with using WebKit to display it, though.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:30 pm
by ofri
suicidalmoose wrote:Is it worth filing a ticket if growl is programmed so that emoticons cannot be displayeD?
Sure it is! :-P
We'll see what we can do in order to make it possible for .8.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:25 pm
by ofri
Upon a discussion about this subject, we decided not to include this feature. Allowing any application to change the size/font or to add images to the notification is bad. It'll make the notifications no longer uniform which is not what we want.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:23 am
by Githon
You mean I won't get growl notifications that are 2-point pink love notes filled with a bunch of animated gifs and emoticon hearts?
Well... I gueesss I'll find a way to get by
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:11 pm
by The_Tick
Githon wrote:You mean I won't get growl notifications that are 2-point pink love notes filled with a bunch of animated gifs and emoticon hearts?
Well... I gueesss I'll find a way to get by
Yep, that's basically why we aren't doing it, heh.