[JDEV] Emoticons...

[TerraAccess]

Thanks Sebastiaan,

I popped off an email to him last night. I'm sure he's busy...
I just came to the board in case there was something I missed.
Your suggestion looks perfect to me. I've spent most of my day
in the 'XML Bible' and the JEP trying to figure something out
and just haven't come up with anything in the current format.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sebastiaan 'CBAS' Deckers" <cbas at screaming3d.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons...


> I contacted Adam Theo (the author of the JEP) about this and he's 
> thinking about it.
> You should probably ask him directly ...
> 
> I'm in favor of something like:
> <name language="en"> One bigass grin </name>
> 
> - Sebastiaan
> 
> 
> 
> TerraAccess wrote:
> 
> >Thanks Mattias I really appreciate you taking the time to 
> >help me with this...
> >but maybe I phrased my question wrong.
> >
> >On my emoticon popup when a user rolls over an emoticon
> >I display a text description of the emoticon. I'm looking for 
> >somewhere in the xml to define this text description. 
> >
> >The only way I see right not to do this would be to chop the 
> >extension off the file and use the descriptive name for the 
> >name of the file. I do think it would be a little cleaner
> >to set this in the xml though. 
> >
> >I would rather not change the schema but I don't see a clean
> >alternative. 
> >
> >  
> >
> >>TerraAccess wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I use a rollover effect to display a name for the emoticons.
> >>>What would be the prefered way to add this to the icondef...
> >>>
> >>><icon name="...">
> >>>
> >>>or with a new tag
> >>>
> >>><icon>
> >>>    <name></name>
> >>>    .....
> >>></icon>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>If you look at the XML shema file of JEP038, you'll see:
> >>  <xs:element name="graphic" type="xs:string"
> >>minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> >>
> >>so you can define as much graphics as you want. So maybe you could use 
> >>numbers to have the sequence of rollover, like:
> >><icon>
> >>   <text default="true">:-)</text>
> >>   <text>:)</text>
> >>   <graphic type="image/png">happy1.png</graphic>
> >>   <graphic type="image/png">happy2.png</graphic>
> >></icon>
> >>
> >>And in that way you don't have to change anything in JEP038
> >>
> >>greetings
> >>Mattias
> >>    
> >>
> 
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