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Originally posted by Ming
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Originally posted by Shahrose Khan
I guess there is still a lot of work to be done before we can have a messenger with animating smileys in chat logs
I dont think so. If this feature is not enabled is just because developers are not interested in it.
Saving animated gif emoticons as static png is actually more complicated than to just save the gif emoticons unchanged (animated).
This is not how Plus! works.
Plus! gets the graphical data from certain internal objects in Messenger. And those objects probably only provide a static image (also reason why winks are saved as PNG and not as Flash files for example)
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Originally posted by Ming
Think about your IM client as an Internet browser. As you know, everything that is displayed on your screen is there because it has been downloaded from a server, and thus it can be saved.
This is not how Messenger works. What you see on the screen is not necessarily the same as what is provided by the internal accessable objects.
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Originally posted by Ming
Other IM clients are saving animated gif emoticons in their logs, though not perfectly yet. Check emesene.org or miranda-im.org.
They also work in a completely different way which can not be compared to how Plus! works.
Those 3rd party clients are just that: "clients". Meaning they must interact with the Messenger protocol directly. Messenger Plus! is NOT a client, it is an addon, meaning it can only work with what Messenger provides via its internal objects.
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