note My host is currently down, and will be back in a few days. I apologize for the inconvinience. In the mean time, you can use this link: http://ben_gm.tripod.com/emoticon_v5beta.zip to download the fifth version, still a beta. It has all the basic of version 4, but with some variations. Have fun.

In case the above link isn't working, you can use this one: http://rebelsean.kaonet.net/emoticon_v5beta.zip - Special thanks to XxRebelSeanxX!

**************



Direct Download - Screenshot - CrazyClown2's website

Hi all,
  I'm new here and I wanted to show you my last work, Emoticon maker v4. As the screenshots show you, this is a professional quality program. You can create over 29,262,643,200,000 different emoticons for MSN and other chatting activities (but everyone knows that msn is the best, right?), forums, websites and much more! . I heard a lot of suggestions over versions and here are the features:

-A lot of selectable parts
-4 dirrection movable parts
-Saving images as BMP and saving work
-Help file
-MSN Block Checker - not made by me, and not 100% right
-Link section, which I bet no one checks
-Friendly interface
- Part randomizer for those who lack of imagination
- Fullscreen option
- Printing emoticon
- Zoom in/zoom out
-Colorable rectangle for those you want to resave the emoticons as transparent GIFs
-Totally free
-No spywares or adwares
-And much more!


Feedbacks and constructive comments are welcomed!

this is one great tool............works great (but it takes time to load )
also, you should re-code the restart button. (i mean some other way of restarting)

Awesome program few problems, when creating custom emoticons the quality of them is downgraded so much that it appears just as a white image. Also the block check you have doesn't accept shift+2 for the @ symbol so the email checker dont work.

WOW, talk about using your Spare Time

and where is the red color for the face ?

or a darker black... instead of more grey

quote:

---

Originally posted by Matty.
Awesome program few problems, when creating custom emoticons the quality of them is downgraded so much that it appears just as a white image. Also the block check you have doesn't accept shift+2 for the @ symbol so the email checker dont work.

---

Grue explained it well. The problem with the Block Checker is that it is linked to 7 different servers, where it checks if the user is online/offline. Some servers can be down, some can have false results sometimes, but it seems like it only works once in a few tries.

gerardo_cm2: In the fourth version, I decided to make the faces lighter so the quality of emoticons becomes better. Example: I don't want the eyes, eyebrows, mouths, etc. to have a black outline on a light-grey face. And the MSN emoticons' part aren't black outlined either.

You could still download version 2 (or 3?), which I believe has red faces.

Chloe: What do you mean by: "also, you should re-code the restart button. (i mean some other way of restarting)"?


I'm glad you liked my program .

Very nice!
Btw may i ask in what programing language did you make it...?
I used an API spy but the class it returns me is "ThunderRTForum".
This looks like VB forms but it isnt.
VB forms are "ThunderRTForm6" or something like that...

When i press the reset buttion, it restarts the whole program, which was a bit slow. Can it be done in any other way? (for example, clear all the images....(without restarting the whole program))

quote:

---

Originally posted by Matty.
Also the block check you have doesn't accept shift+2 for the @ symbol so the email checker dont work.

---

Mike2: Even if it will look less professional, it was made with Game Maker 5.2 and 5.3A (www.gamemaker.nl). GM tends to have a bad reputation because of the low age average members it has. Users tried to make it to popular sites with bad/normal games and its reputation went down quite fast. Trust me, very good and professional quality games were made with it, as weel as programs. You can www.downloads.com search for some, or check out www.shawn64.com, www.free-windows-games.com (who offered me 50 bucks for my program, but I refused) and the game maker's site for good games.

Chloe: I'm sorry if I first misunderstood you, I wil make it much faster (no intro) when it will refresh. I added the intro last but didn't pay attention to that button! Thanks a lot!

Someone submit this too mess.be, it's a nice tool

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrazyClown2
Mike2: Even if it will look less professional, it was made with Game Maker 5.2 and 5.3A (www.gamemaker.nl). GM tends to have a bad reputation because of the low age average members it has. Users tried to make it to popular sites with bad/normal games and its reputation went down quite fast. Trust me, very good and professional quality games were made with it, as weel as programs. You can www.downloads.com search for some, or check out www.shawn64.com, www.free-windows-games.com (who offered me 50 bucks for my program, but I refused) and the game maker's site for good games.

---

I e-mailed them, asking them to buy it. They replied fast saying they were interrested; I added a lot of banners, links and all to mess.be, I e-mailed them back but I never heard of them again... I re-e-mailed them a few times, still out of answer!

Crazy Clown , I must say this is excellent work.

This should be subbmited to Mess.be!

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrazyClown2
I e-mailed them, asking them to buy it. They replied fast saying they were interrested; I added a lot of banners, links and all to mess.be, I e-mailed them back but I never heard of them again... I re-e-mailed them a few times, still out of answer!

---

Oh, sorry for the confusion! Well, I e-mailed them also simply to put it in the news, as you said. I also PMed Patchou, for the same issue but I doubt he'll put it on msgplus.net, as it isn't related (and I don't pay for publicity). Guido, if you want to write an article, then go ahead! That would be much appreciated!

Mike2: I'm sorry, but I won't release the source code...

Hey, great work.
Problem : using the dark blue sweat drop, image becomes a coloured block with the drop being only part visible.


Question: Is bitmap the only format you can save the image in?

Thanks much for the bug report Vazza. I uploaded a newer version correcting this bug, and the one Chloe reported too. Thank you!

And yes, the only format that you can save as is BMP. I'm trying to learn the Jpg file structure for a better saving system... I first wanted to give transparent Gifs a try, but because of the hardness and the Gifs copyrights, I stopped.

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrazyClown2

And yes, the only format that you can save as is BMP. I'm trying to learn the Jpg file structure for a better saving system... I first wanted to give transparent Gifs a try, but because of the hardness and the Gifs copyrights, I stopped.

---

and the GIF copyrights ran out worldwide on the 8th July this year

indeed... and do not put much time in jpg as this is a lossy graphic format and will *beep* up the saved emoticons. Your first choice should be PNG, as this is the format used by Messenger itself, because it supports alpha-transparency and 24bit colors. After that, your second choice should be GIF, third choice BMP and as last (for the dodgy people ) JPG....

PS: your site can only be viewed correctly with MSIE; don't use MSIE-specific code, although widely used, that is not the standard (=not good)

quote:

---

Originally posted by CookieRevised
your second choice should be GIF

---

[OFF TOPIC]

quote:

---

Originally posted by KeyStorm

quote:

---

Originally posted by CookieRevised
your second choice should be GIF

---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#History
If MSIE would get alpha-channel properly, but it doesn't .

---

[/OFF TOPIC]

You're right, I shouldn't really use Jpgs, as they are most-likely only good for big images. I found a few PNG sites that can help me, but heck it's confusing! I would rather create my own file type but then msn wouldn't read it!

there are excellent free PNG-libraries, so you don't need to know all the techstuff. (But I don't know if you can use/import those libraries into your programming language you use)

Anyways, to learn about PNG, all you need is:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
=> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/toc.html

PS: PNG seems like a complicated format at first (if you are new to fileformats), but is actualy a very easy to understand and strait forward format...

quote:

---

Originally posted by CookieRevised
[OFF TOPIC]

quote:

---

Originally posted by KeyStorm

quote:

---

Originally posted by CookieRevised
your second choice should be GIF

---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#History
If MSIE would get alpha-channel properly, but it doesn't .

---

I don't get that, sorry... MSIE has nothing todo with choosing PNG as first choice or GIF as second :/

---

maybe you should try making it save as a .jpg or .gif sure there's some color loss, but im sure you can work around it

quote:

---

Originally posted by Vantage
maybe you should try making it save as a .jpg or .gif sure there's some color loss, but im sure you can work around it

---

Another question about image saving: Why isn't the bitmap recognised by any other program except paint? I mean, I was going to save it as another format, but other image program e.g Microsoft Photo Editor or Photoshop 6, it tells me it can't read the file. And paints only letting me save as bitmap or gif( with lose of colouring). 

You proberly didn't use the proper fileformatfilter to read it with; in the file select menu in other programs, you often have to select which type of file you are going to open...

The BMP that is saved is a valid BMP which can be read by any program supporting BMP's...

quote:

---

Originally posted by Vazza
as bitmap or gif (with loss of colouring).

---

ok so i made myself a nice lil zombie emoticon  and then i got bak and the emo doesnt work plus my typing doesnt work WTF is up with that???

edit: my typing is bak but the emos are saving in a white colourand u cant see them

~INVASION~: Is that happening when you are trying to use the emoticons in MSN, or saving with the program itself? If it is the msn issue, I suggest you to resave the image to another file format; there is nothing else I can do. Some people have reported this before, odd.

CookieRevised: Depending on what program you are using, it is very possible that the image looses quality. If I export (not saving) a small image with PaintShop Pro7 in GIF, it will look awfull.

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrazyClown2
CookieRevised: Depending on what program you are using, it is very possible that the image looses quality. If I export (not saving) a small image with PaintShop Pro7 in GIF, it will look awfull.

---

I just checked it, and you are right. My GIFs optimization options weren't set good. héhé!

I know this might be bad to bring this up again, but the link for the download isn't workin. Would anyone mind postin it as a attachment or something?

My host has enconter some problems. The reseller plan it was runnign on has discontinued; so they are switching server, which may take a week. If you add me on msn I'll gladly send it to you! beni_quimper@hotmail.com

Emoticon maker v5 news:
-save as gif, png and bitmap (done)
-will have a layer section at the bottom, to: move, delete and set image alpha of the current part (half-done)
-will have it's own "paint" program incorporated (yet to be started)
-html-based help file (half-done)
-dedicated website for online support and emoticon testing (done)
-more parts (yet to be started)
-top menu for better navigation (half-done)

Feel free tp post your suggestions!


I apologize for the host inconvinience,
CrazyClown2

Hmmm, why not just post it in here as a attachment? That would be the best thing to do so people on the fourms can get it to.. Also good luck on v5!

Hmmmm....looking good. Good Luck with it

XxRebelSeanxX: theres a uploaded file size limit i think, dunno what it is. So the programs probaly to big

quote:

---

Originally posted by madman66
XxRebelSeanxX: theres a uploaded file size limit i think, dunno what it is. So the programs probaly to big

---

I'll edit my first post with a link to version 5 beta. It has all version has (exept the block checker) plus more. Note that it's not yet finished!

This beta version is awesome! I like it. I give it, a 8 of 10! Nice work!

i dont know if this is just me but when i end the beta version i get extreme lag and cant do anything for about 30 seconds

I don't wene I exit it, it closes. No problem. But I'm on Windows98SE...

I couldn't recreate the "bug" either. Try to open it again, and see if it does the same thing. If so, then try rebooting your computer. Afterwars, if it still lags, give us your system specifications so we can look further to it.

I am also running on Windows 98SE.

I don't know if its just me, but the link for the beta version isn't working. I'm getting the following up:

This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos®Network Site, and is not available for download. Please check out Tripod's Help system for more information about Remote Loading and our Remote Loading policy.

Lycos has hotlink protection.
I think you should be able to download the file if you go to http://ben_gm.tripod.com first, and then type http://ben_gm.tripod.com/emoticon_v5beta.zip in the address bar.

I can't even get it that way...Guess I'll have to wait a little bit longer....

Both links work for me. Try to drag the link to the adress bar.

Awfie dodgy btyahoo! browser. Put the link into the normal IE and worked fine.

* Vazza nows goes off to find out why yahoo! doesn't like lycos

How bout this! Sean hosts the file for now till CrazyClowns2's service (better one) is back up?

Hehehe, if you want me to remove it CrazyClown2, just tell me .


CrazyClown2's Emoticon_v5BETA.zip Click Here To Download!

Thanks XxRebelSeanxX, but it is very temporary, as the host is supposed to be back in 2-3 days. (I think that it'll take a week or so, though).

I'll edit the first post with the new link. Thanks alot!

No problem. Just pm me wene it's back up or contact me some how.

great one CrazyClown2, v5 is excellent!!!!!

one thing: why are there two extras buttons, and only one set of extras? otherwise it's excellent

Hey there

I know that this is just a beta version but I tried to export as a gif and png formats and get the following error. I'm on Win 98 SE

Did you unzip the the executable? Looks like you didn't

that_ginger_guy: The two extra tabs are the same in case you want to have more than one, people are reporting this, but it is actually intented. It will be well detailed in the help file, and in the program itself (where the layer options will be - which isn't finished yet).

emmm... yeah. just to check, I deleted it and then re unzipped it into another folder, ran the program, made a emoticon and then when back to export and same problem.

EDIT: If its only me thats having this problem, I'll hold off and wait for the final version to come out

I dont get errors and I love it!

It seems like the program isn't exporting the DLL image convertor at start-up. Download the attached file and place it on the same folder as the program.

Usually, this shouldn't happen and I am nowhere sure this method will work. Hopefully it will.

Well, I don't know what else to do. I downloaded and unzipped the file. Though now, even though I still get the error, it automatically saves it to .bmp. Don't worry about it. I'll wait till the final version comes out.

quote:

---

Well, I don't know what else to do. I downloaded and unzipped the file. Though now, even though I still get the error, it automatically saves it to .bmp. Don't worry about it. I'll wait till the final version comes out.

---

Erm, I can't save this a a .gif. Ther is no option to save it as that.:ndecided: Is there a preference I need to put on to get it to let me save as a gif?

In this version it won't work, I figured out what Vazza's problem was, and it will occure to everyone. To save as an image, click on Image on the top menu, then Export and then select the image type you want. I will make it so that you can save as .emo, .bmp, .png and .gif in the "middle" menu. I'll soon update the version and edit this post, with a better version.


CrazyClown2

a brill emoticon creator, cant wait til the final version is out with no bugs

When is emoticon maker v5 going to be released?

I don't really know for now. Maybe two weeks, maybe more. I'll let you all know when it'll be finished , don't worry about it!