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Originally posted by CookieRevised
He wants to control what the contact sees, thus sometimes ":)" and sometimes "
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asked:
"hi! :) how are you? "
This is not possible, with any tool, since you can not control what your contact sees. What your contacts sees depends only on what that contact has enabled in his settings (Tools > Options > Messages > Show emoticons).
errr no, sorry this was maybe a bit confusing... i just wanted to say that i want to do to the ascii :) smiley. i added the other msn standard smiley-emoticon to the question so that it is clear that i dont mean the standard smiley. and i thought it might be possible to change the combination for the
smiley from ":)" to "MSN:)" or something like that. but i'm afraid that doesn't change the topic and it's still not possible to do this... is it?
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by zach
I used (Ctrl+K). I can't see it in the conversation so :) = :), not
Not exactly though...
:) = :)
That character code is still there. It is just that Plus! will try to interpret that character as a color code prefix. This means that it will only work if the contact has also Plus! installed and running, and that you con't use other colors in your text.
Contacts without Plus! will still see:
"Hello :)"
i don't agree, i think ctrl+k is not a plus! specific shortcut but a windows shortcut for a special sign (from another language i think) that doesn't show up if you sent the msg... i got some points on this:
1. the plus! feature changes the msn standard emoticon smileys "back" to the ascii smileys. but it does not really change them back. it just changes them. for example :> is changed by msn to
and then changed by plus! from
to :D but NOT to :> which it was before. but if i use ctrl+k i don't have problems like this, :[ctrl+k]> shows up as :>.
2. it also works with trillian (a chatprogramm which i use for icq). if you use ctrl+k the smiley stays as if you used . instead of ctrl+k just that you don't see ctrl+k-sign but you would see . as :.)
so the reason why the ascii smiley is not replaced with the emoticon is that you do not enter the required combination, but enter also another sign that just does not seem to show up. so this should work everywhere shouldn't it, as long as ctrl+k doesn't show up?
and btw how do you write the ctrl+k sign [] ? i copy and pasted it from you when i was quotion but it doesn't seem to work anymore lol this is confusing...
