Hello Steve! On Saturday, May 14, 2005, 1:14 PM, you wrote, in part:
> <now how do I put in one of those smileys everyone is so keen on?> Smileys work from text handles that call images. You cannot view them in the Edit Mail Message window. To view them in View Message windows of any kind (including VFs and Browse Mail Ticker), you have to select RTV. A handy right-click context menu for the message body will let you switch from PTV to RTV. In that same menu, tick the box for Smileys. (There's a place in the Main Window Options/Preferences/Viewer-Editor to choose HTML/Rich Text View, plus a check box for Smileys, also.) You have a set of Default Smileys plus their .msl handles in The Bat!/Images folder. To put one of those in, just type the handle (or c&p it into your message body text.) Be sure to include the enclosing colons ( : : ) with no space between handle and colons. Important: be sure to have a space on either "outside" of the colons. To use the additional images (not all of them Smileys, though we have them on the Smiley page--we have a large collection of flags, too), download them from: http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/PCWSmileys.php Put the pcwimages folder in The Bat!/Images. Also, put the pcwsmileys.msl file in The Bat!/Images. The Default folder there is your collection of images that came with TB!, and default.msl, which you can open in a text reader such as Notepad is your collection of handles for those. So, after you get the PCWize Smiley page Smileys, you'll have 2 folders and 2 .msl files in The Bat!/Images. Forgive me if I'm redundant. A look in the Images folder alone would have been enough for you to figure this out, I'm sure. If I haven't told this clearly, please ask. I guess I really should work up a QT with a mini-tutorial for answering questions about using Smileys. :) I'm tickled to tell you how to play with these, as I am the Official Keeper of the Smileys! :) Hope it's okay to brag--actually I'm just Leif Gregory's helper with this. 9Val had the original Smileys-called-from-text-handles idea, and then Leif (I think with some more input from 9Val), expanded on it. Some of us on TBOT were privileged to help beta-test the page, and then Leif asked if I would help him out as the page's administrator. Die-hard PTV users don't have much use for the concept. Others, like me, have had an immense amount of fun with them. :) -- Best regards, Mary, PCWSmileys Administrator http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/PCWSmileys.php The Bat! 3.5 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
