Personal Smilies (v 1.3.0)

[Former Member]

This isn't working in reply - oh dear Todge I get the feeling that something is really messing up your smilie related plugins.

[Todge]

Both my smiley plugins are still working for me on my test forum.

Do you have a test account I can login to your forum with please? Something is obviously awry.

[Former Member]

Please register Todge my accounts are all linked…. I've just tried to create a separate account for you but couldn't. Registration is automatic btw.

[Former Member]

Jun 16, 2013 4:10:09 GMT -8 Todge said:

Both my smiley plugins are still working for me on my test forum.

Do you have a test account I can login to your forum with please? Something is obviously awry.

I'll open up a board for you Todge - creating a test account for you is easier said than done.

I'll PM you a link.

[spiceelicious]

I'm wondering...I am only a member of this forum
letsgogardening.proboards.com/
The admin has both personal smilies and the smilie drop down plug in installed. When I attempt to use the smilie drop down to access the smilies they won't show, just code.

[Todge]

The Admin has entered the smilies incorrectly into the plugin.

He/She has added them like so:-

[0]='http://storage.proboards.com/3530965/i/SrnuuohfAPcPDaAA_hJR.gif';
[1]='http://storage.proboards.com/3530965/i/dLmnL5hfaoI0bLX4UzEJ.gif';

etc..

But they should be:-

smilie[0]='http://storage.proboards.com/3530965/i/SrnuuohfAPcPDaAA_hJR.gif';
smilie[1]='http://storage.proboards.com/3530965/i/dLmnL5hfaoI0bLX4UzEJ.gif';

Adding the variable name to the beginning of each line should fix the problem.

[spiceelicious]

Thank you Todge. I will let her know that.

[DarkPikachu]

mind if I question why it's limited to 25?? :/
I'm just the type of guy who likes to know the technicalities behind these things.

[Todge]

It's limited to 25 because of the limited space available when using a key.

A key is limited to 4kb, essentially 4000 characters (4096 to be exact).

As image URLs can be fairly long, your signature image is 80 characters, I decided that 150 characters should be enough for most URLs. That would allow 27 smileys, so I capped it to 25 with the rest of the space as redundancy.

At some point I am going to expand the plugin to use localStorage as well. Depending on your browser, that would allow at least 2.5mb of storage, depending on space available. That is enough for over 17,000 smileys, but I would probably cap it at around 200 for code functionality.

[DarkPikachu]

ah ok cool

just out of curiosity, are you planning on adding:
- catagories for custom emotes
- ability to replace emotes such as "" with a defined one from the currently selected catagory
- post integration (so you cen select a catagory before postong)

this was just something I was looking for before yours was reccomended.
however, your work has inspired me to do this myself and try to learn the plugin system.

I know from the ideas above it sounds a little complex to start with, but for me, something like this is simple.

I just need to gain a little knowledge first XD
if you wouldn't mind, may I ask for your src??

I'll PM you on the details if you like.

[Todge]

I had thought about using categories, but with the limited space available decided against it, and no, I had not thought about having the ability to replace the existing PB images with your own.

You are welcome to see my source code if you wish, but if you consider a plugin such as this simple, I don't see how that would help you, as much of my code would have to be rewritten to add those functions.

[DarkPikachu]

dangit, there I go wrongly stating myself again XDD

your code may most likely be complex as what you're basically doing is hacking to add the support.
(I say "may most likely" because I havn't seen it, I believe it to be complex)

the reason I say, even with the re-writes including my ideas, that it's simple for me...
excuse me for self-imposing my project on your project, but have you seen my project?? UMC??

well, to put it simply, UMC converts 3D models from game formats to computer formats and back.
and I've had to basically scrap and rebuild each development version...

now, with the fact that I'm working on both dev4.5 and dev5,
with dev5 promising MAAAANY more features such as animation conversion and faster support for advanced GL with GLEW...

now do you see why I say something like this is simple?

@normal people:
it's not simple, not at all...
don't take me for granted when I say something is simple, because it's usually complex. XD

[Former Member]

Simple question for DarkPikachu - are you using the Smilie Dropdown plugin?

Sounds to me like it's got all you are looking for - support.proboards.com/thread/431128/smilie-dropdown-option-view-all

[DarkPikachu]

oh dang
I didn't even know about that.

thanks

sorry Todge for what seemed like I was creating a rucus over it.
I truely didn't mean it that way.

this is an awesome project you have here, and I hope to see it grow.

EDIT:
oh I see why it wasn't reccomended...
it uses a direct interface with a variable to add smileys to.
where this plugin succeeds at making it easy for all users.

to put it simply, yes the plugin you reccomended IS what I want...
but only I can use it...

EDIT2: oh wait no...
it's global...
everyone can see my smileys...
dang.

what I'm looking for, if anyone knows:
each user will be able to customize their own catagories of their own emotes.
they will also be able to create a global catagory which can be overridden by the local catagories.
and will also be able to override the forum's default emotes.

- forum emotes
-- user global emotes (overrides forum)
--- user catagorized emotes (overrides global)

the affect is local to the user's posts (including existing posts)

EDIT3:
the whole idea mainly revolves around Role Play (RP spelled out for those who don't know )
and allows users to customize specific sets to be readily available for those characters.

[Todge]

I wasn't attacking or drawing you up because of what you said, I simply think that to add functions such as those you are suggesting would pretty much render what I have already written obsolete, so I don't see what you could get out of my code. If I was to try and add those features to my plugin, I'd pretty much start from scratch, partly because writing them into the existing code would be too much work, and partly because since writing it I have found better ways of achieving the same thing.

I have no doubt that you are a better coder than me, and I do not intend to claim otherwise.