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Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by hsa on 11-20-2004 at 10:05 PM
I don't know whats going on my Emoticons aren't showing up in My instant chat windows or my name either, is there some setting i have to change it was working fine then all of a sudden it isnt i dunno what 2 do!!! I need my emoticons lol! please help me with ne suggestions or anything.thank u!x
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Choli on 11-20-2004 at 10:11 PM
make sure you enable the option of showing emoticons in chats in the messenger options (tools > options). Depending on the version of messenger that option can be in several places inside the options window, but it isn't hard to find.
The smilies in nicks: you won't see them if you use custom names of plus. To disable it go to Plus > Preferences > Contact list > custom names.
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by coolius on 11-20-2004 at 10:16 PM
Any chance of fixing this custom name problem in a future version?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Choli on 11-20-2004 at 11:19 PM
quote:No.
Originally posted by coolius
Any chance of fixing this custom name problem in a future version?
THat limitation has been there since Patchou added the custom names feature. It's very unlucky that it can be fixed in a near future.
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by hsa on 11-21-2004 at 06:26 PM
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafe it fixt soz i didnt kno how 2 enit i dn that tools thing thnx alot!!!!!!!
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-01-2004 at 03:49 PM
I didn't wanted to open a new topic soI hope this is allright. Just to get things clear. When enabling the custom names for your contacts in the contact list but not in the chatwindow, MSN won't show emoticons in your contact's names in a chat window?
Hope someone can straighten this out for me
Boudewijn
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Tochjo on 12-01-2004 at 04:02 PM
quote:It's a limitation. Simply put, when you use Custom Names, Messenger Plus! uses view by email and it replaces the email address of your contacts with your custom names for them. Because Messenger knows email addresses cannot contain emoticons, they won't be displayed.
Originally posted by Boudewijntjuh
When enabling the custom names for your contacts in the contact list but not in the chatwindow, MSN won't show emoticons in your contact's names in a chat window?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-01-2004 at 04:13 PM
Okay, thanks but is that only for the Contact List? Cause in the chatwindows I didn't enable Custom Names so the original names are shown only without emoticons. How come?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Tochjo on 12-01-2004 at 04:40 PM
Same thing. Once you use custom names, Messenger will use 'view by email' everywhere in Messenger and replace that email address with the custom name. Because you don't see emoticons in the main window anyway you don't notice it there, but you do notice it in the conversation windows 
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-01-2004 at 04:48 PM
okay, but why is it that when there's an alert or something and the name is shown, i suddenly can see the emoticons?
I understand that msgplus has to overrule the way MSN shows names when Custom Names is enabled for the contact list. But why does MSGplus also overrule the standard way of MSN to show names (with emoticons in the chat windows), when it's not needed?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Tochjo on 12-01-2004 at 04:57 PM
I tried and couldn't see emoticons on any pop up (comes online, changes name, changes nick, goes offine), except for the window opened notifier of StuffPlug NG. That pop up doesn't show the custom name but the real display name.
quote:My thought would be that you can't just change this for one part of Messenger, but have to enable a certain mode (e.g. sort by email) for Messenger as a whole.
why does MSGplus also overrule the standard way of MSN to show names (with emoticons in the chat windows), when it's not needed?
RE: RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-01-2004 at 05:03 PM
quote:probably was confused with that
Originally posted by Tochjo
except for the window opened notifier of StuffPlug NG.
Thanks for explaining these things to me. Just have to imagine emoticons instead of : P and : D. Any chance this will change in the future?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Tochjo on 12-01-2004 at 05:10 PM
quote:This limitation has been around for quite a long time now. I don't think it will be changed in a short time, sorry
Originally posted by Boudewijntjuh
Any chance this will change in the future?
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-01-2004 at 05:15 PM
okay, no problem it isn't your fault Thanks for clearing things up for me.
RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Plik on 12-01-2004 at 05:45 PM
I was thinking about this the other day and...
Plus removes the formating tags from beeing shown in names without losing the emoticons, so would it be able to do the same for custom names?
RE: RE: Emoticons aren't showin in Name or in instant messages by Boudewijntjuh on 12-02-2004 at 04:41 PM
quote:Just noticed that the emoticons are shown when sending a file.
Originally posted by Tochjo
I tried and couldn't see emoticons on any pop up (comes online, changes name, changes nick, goes offine), except for the window opened notifier of StuffPlug NG. That pop up doesn't show the custom name but the real display name.