Hello Thomas! On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 10:53 AM, you wrote:
LSB>>> how [do Smileys] ... function in The Bat? AM>> For this to work, you'll need to be using TB! v2.12 or later. AM>> Visit http://www.pcwize.com/thebat/ AM>> A lot of information is there as well as the files you need. TF> When downloading 2.12, the smileys addressed in default.msl are TF> included without the necessity of downloading additional files TF> from the site you mention. There is a problem with this: Yes. This does need to be emphasized. The Default folder Smileys (in The Bat!/Images) were created by 9Val. The download of those, when The Bat! downloads, is under 9Val and the RitLabs' team's control. TF> In the office, I use the RTV as default, as the majority of TF> incoming messages are in HTML. A message came in advising TF> seafreight rates + BAF + PSS + GRR. Now "GRR" means General Rate TF> Restoration in my industry (BAF is Bunker Adjustment Fee and PSS TF> is Peak Season Surcharge). Instead of "GRR", an "angry" smiley was TF> shown. Bad. And also bad when "headshot" brings up a bloody head instead of the text used as a photographic term of reference. There's a work-around, of course. You can edit either the Default Images folder or the default.msl file to disable this behavior. But it is still bad for this to happen either to an old user who had not had time to edit the file manually or to an unsuspecting new user. TF> This is not good: "smileys" should be surrounded by colons or - TF> better - triangular brackets and otherwise not recognised, if they TF> are purely text. 9Val and the RitLabs team will have to address this. The Default folder as it is now constituted to download with The Bat! does not represent RitLabs intentions to meet the needs of business users as well as personal users. Of course, as you're well aware, Thomas, this team, and 9Val as a part of it, are up to their ears in IMAP issues and New Filter System issues in the Sorting Office right now. Anyone reading TBBETA over the past few days can see that. So I think it will be a long time before the Default images folder and the default.msl file are repaired and made comfortably functional. Anything with the PCWSmileys page (not the PCWSmileys Roguemoticons page, however) I can, most of the time, give help with, as the PCWSmileys Administrator. I am happy to have queries from anyone regarding that Smileys collection. -- Best regards, Mary (Mary Bull) :Trill: PCWSmileys Administrator http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/PCWSmileys.php The Bat! 2.12.00 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
