#24 Seperated Smilies

[Anonymous]

How about a seperate window for the smilies so they don't have to be displayed inline?

Also is there a way to use the smilies from the forum instead of having to add smilies and to the forums and to the chat?

[Philip Nicolcev]

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There isn't currently a way to use forum smilies in the chat, largely because something like that would require the chat to be modified for every different integration version. It gets complicated since every smily needs to be mapped to a command and every forum system will have a different way of storing the commands. It's unlikely that something like this will be implemented in the future.

A separate window is not a feature all users would want so I don't see the chat changing that way either.

[Steve Van Lint]

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I don't see how the seperate window would not be an improvement...

As it is now, the more smilies you add, the more cluttered your screen gets, which is not something anybody wants.

[Bash]

I added a new container (like the 'who's online' or 'settings' containers) to display the keyboard shortcuts of smilies:

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/neljanization/Forum/ScreenHunter_01Oct180739.gif

This was pretty straightforward, I just made the standard 'emoticons container' hidden in CSS, and added a new entry under the <div ="OptionsContainer"> , copying the 'helpContainer' attributes within the loggedIn.HTML and CSS files.

The only drawback I have, is that the user can't click on the emoticon within the new container to display the emotican, it's function is only a 'visual aid' (they have to type the keyboard sc's to display the emoticons).

Does anyone know how I can have the chat call upon the new containers images as emoticons?