Re: [bme-develop] icon loading

[Simon T. <sim...@ga...>]

> Hey guys,
> 
> just wanted to say that the icon loading code for emoticons works 
> now...it 
> parses the emoticon prefs file(I changed the structure of that!), and 
> loads 
> the bitmaps, for now only static bitmaps and no animation. The code 
> is still 
> a bit dirty though and I will improve it in the following days, along 
> with a 
> quick thingy that displays the icons....Simon due to my way of 
> implementing 
> I could make it entirely tab seperated...there's a ";" between the 
> description of the icons and the shortcuts...will see if I can change 
> it in 
> the future,
> 
> regards,
> 
> Tim

Good news, well done.

I've been looking at the animated ones - my simple solution of 
combining all the frames into 1 static image will not work as some of 
the gifs have different pauses after different frames. My current 
thinking was that we could have a new text file to describe animated 
emots. Maybe something like this:

--in icon prefs file----
/icons/standard/angel.png (a) (A) ; Angel
[...]
/icons/standard/wink.anim ;) ;-) ; Winking smiley
---------

--in wink.anim----
icons/standard/wink1.png 10
icons/standard/wink2.png 50
icons/standard/wink3.png 10
0
----------

Where the number after each frame represents the number of hundreths of 
seconds to display the frame for, and the final 0 means to loop 
forever.

Other news:

I've finally got a BListItem class that does proper automatic text 
wrapping, performance seems similar to a BTextView on resizing a lot of 
items.

Simon