Request: emoticons displayed

suicidalmoose · Post by **suicidalmoose** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:28 am

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.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:30 am

Can you show a screenshot of that here?

ofri · Post by **ofri** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:30 pm

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

suicidalmoose · Post by **suicidalmoose** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:45 am

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?

engla · Post by **engla** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:36 pm

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.

ofri · Post by **ofri** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:30 pm

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.

ofri · Post by **ofri** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:25 pm

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.

Githon · Post by **Githon** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:23 am

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

Post by **The_Tick** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:11 pm

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.