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yeawsing 2006-09-21, 06:51 #1
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Subject: Emoticons
Hi,

Has anyone tried to use emoticons in MiniClients?  If so, can you please provide some reference, resources and hints how to implement it.

Thanks.
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Jabberer 2006-09-21, 09:29 #2
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Hello,

what we use in our custom clients is JISP[1].
This is an emoticon format which was build for Jabbere/XMPP and is used by many different clients now. Its compressed with a zip algorithm and contains all the icons and and icondef.xml file. If you download some files and take a look at the xml file you will see that its pretty easy use. The xml file contains a mapping from text to icon. Then you can easily replace the text with the icon. The big advantage of using such a "standard" is that even if people use different clients they have the same emotes.

[1] http://jisp.netflint.net
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yeawsing 2006-09-21, 12:49 #3
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Hi Jabberer,

I can't find any JEP spec except the JEP-0038.  But this JEP-0038 is the standard for creating the icondef.xml as u mention.

Which mean, when implement this feature we need to get that special text in the message body and display the emoticon.

Eg in the message:

  1. <message>
  2.     ...
  3.     ...
  4.     <body> bla.. bla :-) </body>
  5. </message>

we need to get the ":-)" text and display it like this :) in our chatbox.

Need to check is the C# RichTextbox able to display GIF file or not.   Still not too sure how to implement yet, but I will try.
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Alex 2006-09-21, 12:57 #4
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exactly.

You will find lots of c# examples in the internet to display images in a RTF-Control.
Or you have to use another control for displaying your messages.

Alex
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yeawsing 2006-09-22, 03:40 #5
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Hi,

I found some interesting article that display images in a RTF-Control.

1. http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/MyExtRichTextBox.asp
2. http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/csexrichtextbox.asp

I am not sure, but I guess implement this emoticon biggest job is hacking this RTF-Control.

Does anyone got a better approach or using other WinForm Control?
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Jabberer 2006-09-22, 08:31 #6
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hello,

both articles on codeproject are very good.
The common controls in existing IM clients are the RTF-Control and the Webbrowser control. Using both of them is tricky if you want to display images and formatted text (XHTML-IM).
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yeawsing 2006-09-22, 12:20 #7
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hi,

I just quickly check in the agsxmpp, and it does support this two namespace

'http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im' and 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'

Very cool. :)

Is Wildfire support this <feature var='http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im'/>
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Alex 2006-09-22, 13:12 #8
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this is a client feature.
So there is no need for a server to support it. The server only routes the message, without taking care about the content. It doesnt matter if it is plain text, html or smth else.

Alex
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yeawsing 2006-09-27, 02:30 #9
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Hi guys,

I guess I need to change the Richtextbox to something like a web editor and displayer.

Today, when I was reading my mail, I receive an article about this:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/editor_in_windows_for…

I got a new camera capture project and it going to take about 1 month to build the first prototype :(
When I get back to this IM project again, I will post the emoticon code for u guys to correct me again :)
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YS
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Alex 2006-09-27, 10:21 #10
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Hello,

yes this example is a good start. We also use the HTML Control to display and edit messages in our IM projects.

2 other good examples:
http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/index.php
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.a…?id=ee97…

Alex
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