making an Emoticon

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:11 pm

ok, so I have an emoticon I want to be able to use.

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/2972/crying5lc.gif

I've downloaded the picture, so that I can turn it into an xtra.

gone to the page, and I have no idea what to do.

I am a complete idiot when it comes to computers (which is why I got the mac, easy to use), although not as much as my mother, hehe.

so there is a window called description, a window called changes, a thing were you're supposed to download a file, and one where to download a thumbnail, then sample image, etc etc.

help me out here, give me a step by step walk through.
I looked at the "help" part. but I didn't get anything useful, it told me to open some other emoticon xtra, and look at what had been done there. which confused me even more, as I can't open it.

any help would be greatly appreciated (in fact, if someone could just do it for me, that would be awesome).

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:39 pm

pm me your email address and i'll send it to you

DeathAxe · Post by **DeathAxe** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:46 pm

http://www.deathaxe.sparknom.com/upload ... conSet.zip

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:15 pm

thank you very much.

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:55 pm

ok, little problem here.

a fellow adium user can't see the emoticon, this I can understand, because he hadn't downloaded the xtra... but what about PC users that have MSN? shouldn't they be able to see it? because a friend of mine couldn't see it either.
any help here?

Post by **bgannin** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:59 pm

Custom emoticons are not sent via MSN currently. This is supported in 1.0, which will be available sometime in the future, when it's ready

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:59 pm

Aule_the_creator wrote:ok, little problem here.

a fellow adium user can't see the emoticon, this I can understand, because he hadn't downloaded the xtra... but what about PC users that have MSN? shouldn't they be able to see it? because a friend of mine couldn't see it either.
any help here?

Only people with the extra installed can see it. Adium can't send custom emoticons yet. All that's being sent is the text that triggers the emoticon, and it's up to the IM app to replace the text with an image if it can. The IM app at the receiving end will do one of three things: (1) show the image you see- quite unlikely, (2) show a different image because it has a different image assigned to the trigger text, or (3) show the trigger text because it has no image associated with it.

Post by **The_Tick** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:49 pm

bgannin wrote:Custom emoticons are not sent via MSN currently. This is supported in 1.0, which will be available sometime in the future, when it's ready

1.0 only does receiving, not sending.

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:07 pm

I see

but if I now have this smiley, and someone else does aswell, and they send it to me, but since they have a PC, and they send me this smiley, I have it, but with a different "written" version. can I see it if this person uses it?

Shark! · Post by **Shark!** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:05 pm

The_Tick wrote:1.0 only does receiving, not sending.

Not Sending??!!! Oh! that means i don't have to wait for 1.0 more...

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:25 pm

Aule_the_creator wrote:I see

but if I now have this smiley, and someone else does as well, and they send it to me, but since they have a PC, and they send me this smiley, I have it, but with a different "written" version. can I see it if this person uses it?

Their client doesn't send the image, it only sends the text and leaves it up to your client to replace the text with the image your client has assigned to that text.

Your Adium will replace >:'( or :(( with

if it receives a message containing either. The Adium extra file DeathAxe made is actually a folder and if you right click on it and choose "Show Package Contents" you will see it contains an XML text file that defines the supported trigger text.

If and only if your friend's IM client also has

set to replace >:'( or :(( (in other words, if their client is set exactly as your Adium has it set) will you both see the same image.

Adium 1.0 will support receiving emoticon images as images over MSN.

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:03 pm

can I change it so that the said emoticon shows up when I press ++? because that's what my friend uses.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:13 pm

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Emoticons/(the emoticons name). Right click on it, show package contents, find the Emoticons.plist file and open it in text edit.
Find:

Code: Select all

	<array>
		<string></string>
	</array>

and put in between the two <string></string> a ++. So it should look like this:

Code: Select all

	<array>
		<string>++</string>
	</array>

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:51 pm

Shark! wrote:
The_Tick wrote:1.0 only does receiving, not sending.
Not Sending??!!! Oh! that means i don't have to wait for 1.0 more...

This made no sense at all

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:43 pm

Wengero wrote:Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Emoticons/(the emoticons name). Right click on it, show package contents, find the Emoticons.plist file and open it in text edit.
Find:
Code: Select all
	<array>
		<string></string>
	</array>
and put in between the two <string></string> a ++. So it should look like this:
Code: Select all
	<array>
		<string>++</string>
	</array>

if I do this, I save the new file somewhere else, and I can't change the Xtra itself, because I can't switch them around, at least that's what my computer says.

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:52 pm

After you save the new file somewhere else, give it the same name as the old file if needed, and drag it into the same folder the older one is and replace.

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:07 pm

Shark! wrote:
The_Tick wrote:1.0 only does receiving, not sending.
Not Sending??!!! Oh! that means i don't have to wait for 1.0 more...

Absolutely rock solid logic. You should also stick with the original 10.4.0 release since those pesky updates aren't going to add any of the new features you want either.

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:23 pm

The way I read it, he had just been getting his hopes up with 1.0 mostly because of expecting that feature based on discussion about how custom emoticon support for MSN was coming. I don't think he was necessarily saying that he wouldn't be upgrading, just that he's no longer as anxious.

Aule_the_creator · Post by **Aule_the_creator** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:39 pm

Macskeeball wrote:After you save the new file somewhere else, give it the same name as the old file if needed, and drag it into the same folder the older one is and replace.

can't do it... won't let me put anything new in the file, or replace the old one.

I tried changing it, and putting it in a new file, together with the image, and calling it weeping.AdiumEmoticonSet but as soon as it changed into an emoticonset, the image dissapeared, and the emoticons.plist file had most of the contents erased.