Shoutbox

Hi guys,

I've just added my script Topsy Turvy to the script database: http://www.msgplus.net/scripts/view/519-Topsy-Turvy/

Basically it allows you to type text that's flipped, like what you can do on this page: http://whatsmyip.org/upsidedowntext/

So far it can handle simple emoticons, such as and ie it won't flip those when you type it in your message with the script active. I haven't done the other kind of emoticons, such as and .

Hope you guys can try it out and give comments/feedback, it's my first script! One day I just thought it would be fun if I could irritate people on my MSN list by typing in flipped text, and this came out .

if you want to make a script people will use, add a cool feature like flipping emoticons .

cool. ill use this to annoy peeps

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
if you want to make a script people will use, add a cool feature like flipping emoticons .

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Is this actually possible with a script? Haha...

didnt work for me... all the characters were just boxes which i assume means its like, an unknown character.

Here are some things I found that might cause the flipped text to appear wrongly:

- The output text requires UTF-8 to be visible.
- The resulting flip text may not display correctly on systems not running Windows (e.g. Mac)
- The upside down text might not display correctly on Windows 2000 or older and in some versions of MSN or Live Messenger

For me, I haven't been able to troubleshoot this problem yet. On my XP desktop I am also unable to see the flipped characters. On my Vista laptop (which I used to make this) it shows fine.

This is most likely because the font you're using doesn't support the special characters. You could try to use a standard font (Arial, Tahoma, Segoe UI, Courier...) and see if it works out.

I don't see how XP would be different from Vista (they already had Unicode support in XP), however my guess would be it's your font.

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So far it can handle simple emoticons

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Just enumerate through the emoticons and custom emoticons, if current word is emoticon, leave it alone

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Originally posted by doody

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
if you want to make a script people will use, add a cool feature like flipping emoticons .

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Is this actually possible with a script? Haha...

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it would be incredibly hard, hence a good niche for your script

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Originally posted by Matti
This is most likely because the font you're using doesn't support the special characters. You could try to use a standard font (Arial, Tahoma, Segoe UI, Courier...) and see if it works out.

I don't see how XP would be different from Vista (they already had Unicode support in XP), however my guess would be it's your font.

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I've checked and the font used on both XP and Vista is the same for me, hence it's probably something else...

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by doody

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
if you want to make a script people will use, add a cool feature like flipping emoticons .

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Is this actually possible with a script? Haha...

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it would be incredibly hard, hence a good niche for your script

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Is it incredibly hard, or impossible? I don't see how it's possible to flip the emoticons using a script...

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Originally posted by Spunky
Just enumerate through the emoticons and custom emoticons, if current word is emoticon, leave it alone

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Actually I've just submitted my updated script, now it should display most emoticons correctly. Those in parenthesis will have to be only one character long, so emoticons like won't work. Still, I think it should be able to handle most of the common emoticons!