Docked Smiley Panel (v1.8b)

[Thema]

Take a look at the beta version of my docked Smiley panel.

So far it has been tested to work with:
Opera
Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox
Konqueror
IE6 & Sun Java
IE6 & the latest MS JVM
I cant help you if your users are too lazy to change what came with their machines, so don't even bother telling me about their old broken MS JVM that doesn't work. Sorry!

Tested to fail:
Epiphany. This could probably be fixed by configuring the browser though.

The Smileys will take a while to download, and like the Smileys popup the plugin uses a separate thread to do this.
What this means is that you won't see the smileys till they're all downloaded. This does not affect your ability to chat meanwhile.

Remember that more & larger smileys means longer download times for your SmileyPanel.

Please, I'll need some feedback from you people if you want me to fix anything for you.

See the working example at ADnD.com DSmileys preview

Go find it in downloads:-

[jesusarmy]

Looks good -- what I'd really like this to do is to be able to recognise several smilies for the same picture.

For example, :) and :-) should both display as the same smiley (to allow for users typing in different versions) but only one should come up on the panel.

Afrob does it well in his login mod, but that depends on JavaScript.

[Thema]

There's no reason why you can't have many different lines using the same smiley. Otherwise why not have a slightly different smiley for each slightly different text smiley?

I don't think I'm likely to attempt to make it so that the line will accept several text tokens for each smiley because that would require rewriting the applet, and all I'm writing here is a plugin.

However I am working very hard on a bugfix version that will hopefully have other enhancements.

[Thema]

Updated with a bugfix version.
Applet should reload properly now.
The entire plugin is now loaded in it's own thread so it doesn't appear till all the smileys are downloaded.
The plugin will unload and reload properly using the
/load adnd.DSmileys & /unload adnd.DSmileys commands.

Another known bug:
Doesn't work with my PBtn GUI for some reason. No doubt fixing that bug will fix other bugs at the same time.

Same place as before for the preview.

[jesusarmy]

Having thought about it, I think the plug-in could achieve what I wanted, if you included an optional parameter such as:

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<param name="dsmileys:maxsmileys" value="7">

with the smileys section in the normal parameter list being re-ordered to contain the unique smileys first, followed by the duplicates:

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<param name="style:bitmapsmileys" value="true" />
<param name="style:smiley1" value=":) img/sourire.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley2" value=":D img/content.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley3" value=":O img/OH-2.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley4" value=":P img/langue.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley5" value=";) img/clin-oeuil.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley6" value=":| img/OH-3.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley7" value=":( img/triste.gif" />

<param name="style:smiley8" value=":-) img/sourire.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley9" value=":-D img/content.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley10" value=":-O img/OH-2.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley11" value=":o img/OH-2.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley12" value=":-o img/OH-2.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley13" value=":-P img/langue.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley14" value=":p img/langue.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley15" value=":-p img/langue.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley16" value=";-) img/clin-oeuil.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley17" value=":-| img/OH-3.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley18" value=":I img/OH-3.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley19" value=":-I img/OH-3.gif" />
<param name="style:smiley20" value=":-( img/triste.gif" />

The smileys continue to be converted to bitmaps by the applet as before.

If the parameter maxsmileys is not specified, all the smilies included in the normal parameter list for the applet are displayed by the plugin. If it is, only the first 7, or whatever, appear.

That way I could have :) and :-) both producing the same smiley but the image being displayed only once.

I need hardly say that this is only a concept, and is not coded!

[Thema]

I have found a way to achieve what you originally asked for.
You can now have as many lines as you like with the same image, but the plugin only uses the first one it comes across.

I don't know why I couldn't think of that before. Sometimes I guess I'm just dumb

Go look in downloads...

[jesusarmy]

1. The version I downloaded didn't do that -- it showed all the smileys

It's currently at http://www.jesus.org.uk/chat/index2.php

2. Also it nibbles a small bit off the right of the nick window's scroll bar and track

3. And it would be nice if it returned focus to the text entry bar after clicking on the smiley.

[Thema]

The version you have is the 1.2alpha
You should upload the 1.8beta. :¬)

You can see the version number in the Java console. As the plugin loads it announces itself there.

Meanwhile I'll double check that I have uploaded the correct files.

[jesusarmy]

Don't know why, but I downloaded the previous version. I think it was our system which has a nasty cache.

[Jean__]

Hi Thema
I'm using your smileys plugin, latest version I think, 2.0, thank you.
Any chance there will be an update which lets one set the height other than 20%?

Keep up the good work.
Greetings from Groningen, Netherlands.

[Thema]

Hi Jean,

I thought that I had allowed the hieght to be set in parameters.
Let me have some time to look into it and if I didn't I will try to improve it for you. Meanwhile check the readme in case you missed something.

[Jean__]

This is from dsmileys-readme.txt

Thema's Dsmileys plugin v2.0
...
The Smiley panel will automatically set itself up with scrollbars,
and will size itself to 20% of the applet's height.
I will be adding parameters to alter this later.

Frankly me thinks it's strange you hadn't had this request earlier because the plugin has functionality most people want in a webchat.

Btw I'm using your style.ini's too, nice stuff.

Greets

[Thema]

Ah yes. I remember.
Development kinda stalled due to lack of feedback really.

I think that I had a lot of trouble setting sizes using parameters because the panel had a will of it's own in that regard.
I will look into it this weekend, if not sooner, and see if I can do it for you.

[Jean__]

I haven't looked at java yet but I bet it's hard to do layout things, especially in an already existing applet.

We are very pleased with the applet and all, it allows me to run a irc server which is far more efficient on my old 500 mhz server, while people who don't have mirc can still come chat too.
Thanks, to you and to Plouf and I will be looking here again.

[Jean__]

Hi Thema,

I wrote you a pm, but I guess I better repost here too.

While ago I asked you about configuring the height of the smileys panel, peope would like to have it occupy a bit less space. You said you would look into it. I would be obliged if you could write a param for that height.

Thanks, Jean

[Thema]

Yeah sorry about that. I have so much to do that even finding five minutes can be hard. I haven't forgotten, and I will try as soon as I find a little time.
Usually what happens is I suddenly find myself awake with nothing to do when I least expect it. That's when I usually start writing/updating plugins.

[Jean__]

Well then I hope you will find yourself awake with nothing to do some time soon Thema.

Gimme that param please.

Keep it up!

Jean.

[Thema]

I've been working on it so keep your fingers crossed.

[Jean__]

Sure I will!
Thanks!

[Thema]

It's uploaded. Try it and let me know...