making an emoticon pack

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:08 am

i tried to make an emoticon back but i searched 7 pages back on this forum and the wiki and couldnt find a guide on how to do so
so i just edited an already made pack

i edited the plist and added all my emoticons
everything looks okay and when i install the pack it goes into the adium emoticons folder but when i open adium preferences its not in the list

is there a guide i can read or does anyone have any suggestions as to what im doing wrong?

thanks

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:21 am

Umm the only thing i can think of is you named it the same as a set you already have.
What you have been doing is probably the best way to learn, just by looking at other packs and see how they've dont it.

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:37 am

i thought of that too
its a totally different name but it still doesnt show up
i restarted adium and still the same

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:11 am

if you want to work on this, I have little experiance but am willing to help out. Hit me up on any of the networks, links below this post, or e-mail me the emoticon pack at luxurychair [at] gmail [dot] com

I'll see if I can help out, I've edited other adiumxtras before, but usually have emoticons off, personally.

edit: Maybe we can shoot some file transfers back and forth, too.

xSpikex · Post by **xSpikex** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:17 pm

there is a programm Emotimaker, helping you to create such packs
--->>> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13889 <<<---
though I haven't testet it yet...

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:26 am

still cant get it to show in preferences
but it shows up in the xtras menu under emoticons

heres the .plist file if anyone has some time to try and figure out whats wrong with it
i used textedit to edit the file

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 6B2E8308AE

thanks

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:20 am

Nsma wrote:http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 6B2E8308AE

thanks

I downloaded that file and tried to open it but it said I couldn't open it

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:25 am

its only the .plist file
i always use textedit to open it and it works

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:37 am

Hmm i can't open it in Property List Editor, but i can in TextEdit. Maybe its not a valid .plist file then.

xSpikex · Post by **xSpikex** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:19 pm

Nsma wrote:still cant get it to show in preferences
but it shows up in the xtras menu under emoticons

I had the same problem with a message style... though I used a totally different name (it's name and the names in the .plist file)
then I just put an "A" behind the file name ("MyNewStyleA.AdiumMessageStyle" instead of "MyNewStyle.AdiumMessageStyle") and... IT WORKED ?!?!
I don't understand that (there isn't another style that uses the same name etc. ...) but it works now...

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:42 am

i downloaded plist editor and when i try and open the plist it gives an error

it says theres an error on line 60 an unexpected character <

that character is part of the emoticon
so i put a space between the code and emoticon and still the same problem

it also says theres a malformed data group error on line 1
invalid hex

i dont understand how to fix it
maybe editing in text edit messed it but i dont really wanna redo the whole thing from scrach in plist editor

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:43 am

i didnt want to but i did it
i recreated the plist from scratch in plist editor and it worked

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:58 am

Nsma wrote:i didnt want to but i did it
i recreated the plist from scratch in plist editor and it worked

Good to hear. Would you be able to look and see what the difference is from the original and the one that worked? Just wondering what caused it that's all.

Nsma · Post by **Nsma** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:48 pm

im not sure that there was any differences
i checked lots of times but couldnt find any

maybe editing in textedit changed something but im not sure