How do you make your own smilies set?

iCait · Post by **iCait** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:30 am

Like http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=480 that, I want to do that, but I don't know how, so if you know, can you be really kind and tell me how, please? Thank you.

Take care,
Cait

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:53 am

Do you mean the drawing the emoticons or the formatting files? Or both?

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:58 am

download an existing one and control click and choose "show package contents". You should be able to see how they work fairly easily.

iCait · Post by **iCait** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:07 pm

m2e wrote:Do you mean the drawing the emoticons or the formatting files? Or both?

I think both.

There's a few emoticons I want to know how to be used like when you are typing with someone you use them. I hope you understand what I mean.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:21 pm

haha i dont think i do understand

But ill trya and explain something and hopefully its what your asking.

TO EDIT AN EMOTICON SET:
Go to Home -> Library -> Application Support -> Adium 2.0 -> Emoticons
What i did to learn what to do was copy an existing set of emoticons and then change them to my desire. To do this right click (or control click) on an .adiumemoticonset and select "Show package contents". What you should see is lots of image files (the emoticons) and a file named "emoticons.plist"

I guess I'll stop now since im probably telling you something that has nothing to do with your question

iCait · Post by **iCait** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:37 am

m2e wrote:haha i dont think i do understand But ill trya and explain something and hopefully its what your asking.

TO EDIT AN EMOTICON SET:
Go to Home -> Library -> Application Support -> Adium 2.0 -> Emoticons
What i did to learn what to do was copy an existing set of emoticons and then change them to my desire. To do this right click (or control click) on an .adiumemoticonset and select "Show package contents". What you should see is lots of image files (the emoticons) and a file named "emoticons.plist"

I guess I'll stop now since im probably telling you something that has nothing to do with your question

Well, its better then nothing.

Thank you anyway.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:58 am

well basically the thing that no one understands is do you have the icon made already or do you have the icons and you just want to make them work?

iCait · Post by **iCait** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:52 am

Wengero wrote:well basically the thing that no one understands is do you have the icon made already or do you have the icons and you just want to make them work?

Oh you have to make them? You can't take them from a forum and make them be used on a set of emoticons? I ask because there is a set that I'd love to use for my MSN/iChat emoticons. (I'm sorry if you guys don't understand what I'm asking

).

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:58 am

iCait wrote:
Wengero wrote:well basically the thing that no one understands is do you have the icon made already or do you have the icons and you just want to make them work?
Oh you have to make them? You can't take them from a forum and make them be used on a set of emoticons? I ask because there is a set that I'd love to use for my MSN/iChat emoticons. (I'm sorry if you guys don't understand what I'm asking ).

Im pretty sure you can but i wouldn't know how to go about it.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:15 am

first you have to take the icons off the site. This can be done by either dragging them off to a folder or right clicking and saving them. Then rename them to more suitable names. The next step is probably easiest done by taking an xtra pack you like (you can find it in ~/application support/adium 2.0/Emoticons, then making a copy of it, right clicking it and show package contents. Then delete all the picture files (not the .plist file) and put in your pictures. Open up the .plist file and take a look at how it works.

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<key>advice.gif</key>
		<dict>
			<key>Equivalents</key>
			<array>
				<string>advice</string>
				<string>Advice</string>
				<string>ADVICE</string>
			</array>
			<key>Name</key>
			<string>advice</string>
		</dict>

this is basically the part that you need to keep copy pasting to make an emoticon work. The first line <key>advice.gif</key> is the file name, change it to the file name of one of your emoticons. the list under Equivalents that says advice is the letters you want to type to trigger this emoticon(case sensitive). So if you wanted to make an emoticon thats trigger by

and

then you would replace the first advice with

and the second with

and delete the third (similarly if you want even more combos for an emoticon you can just keep copy pasting the last line). The part under Name is what you want the name for this emoticon to show as.

hope this helps

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:24 am

I prefer editing the emoticons.plist file with Property List Editor. Just seems easier to learn for me.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:32 am

property list editor is only available with the 1.5gb dev tools so i assumed he did not have it nor does he want to download that much for such a tiny app

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:35 am

Ahh k, sorry i didn;t realise that

iCait · Post by **iCait** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:01 am

Wengero wrote:first you have to take the icons off the site. This can be done by either dragging them off to a folder or right clicking and saving them. Then rename them to more suitable names. The next step is probably easiest done by taking an xtra pack you like (you can find it in ~/application support/adium 2.0/Emoticons, then making a copy of it, right clicking it and show package contents. Then delete all the picture files (not the .plist file) and put in your pictures. Open up the .plist file and take a look at how it works.
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<key>advice.gif</key>
		<dict>
			<key>Equivalents</key>
			<array>
				<string>advice</string>
				<string>Advice</string>
				<string>ADVICE</string>
			</array>
			<key>Name</key>
			<string>advice</string>
		</dict>
this is basically the part that you need to keep copy pasting to make an emoticon work. The first line <key>advice.gif</key> is the file name, change it to the file name of one of your emoticons. the list under Equivalents that says advice is the letters you want to type to trigger this emoticon(case sensitive). So if you wanted to make an emoticon thats trigger by and then you would replace the first advice with and the second with and delete the third (similarly if you want even more combos for an emoticon you can just keep copy pasting the last line). The part under Name is what you want the name for this emoticon to show as.

hope this helps

Thank you *SO* much. I hope it helps - and I help I know what I'll be doing too! - thank you again.