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Smilies have standard definitions. I am not going to get into a war
with microsoft ovber their improper usage of smilies. We can't please
everyone all of the time ...
I don't think having service specific smilies is that big of a deal.
Your yahoo friends can grin and bear it :-)
Eric
On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 03:58 PM, Jon wrote:
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> Each service uses different character combinations to represent thier
> graphic smiley. MSN is bad for using things like (b) for things while
> Yahoo uses pretty standard ones. Though they are a bit different from
> the AIM ones. I have gotten complaints from my AIM friends that my
> Smileys don't work.... I can look into this a bit more and compile a
> list of the various things for each service if you like.
> Actually the only one I don't have is AIM.
>
> I have done some modifications to the placeSmilies routine in
> NSAttributedStringAdditions.m file..... Have made it work with almost
> all of Yahoos smileys. Though I need to move a couple of the while
> loops up in the function so that thy deal with the strings before other
> parts do. But it seems to work great for the Yahoo protocol, but none
> of the others...
>
> My initial thoughts on this would be to put a placeSmilies
> protocol:inService and break the function up into smaller functions.
> One for each service, that way each would respond to thier smileys
> correctly. But this would also mean making the popup button in the
> toolbar switch to different menu lists based on the protocol of that
> window. Not sure about how easy any of this would be to implement, but
> just my ideas.
>
> Jon
>
>> On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 12:23 PM, Jon wrote:
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>>> They are currently setup for the Yahoo way of doing things. Could it
>>> be possible to make them work for each IM protocol that uses them? I
>>> mean make AIMs work, Yahoos work, MSNs work and so on.....
>>
>> If they're set up to how Yahoo does things, that's completely
>> accidental.
>>
>> Could you be more specific about what you're asking for? How do
>> smileys work differently?
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