There's a difference between Paint's transparent and overall transparent. Graphics with white (not black) background can be transparent when used in Paint, but when used anywhere else it will not.

I should really deepen my knowledge about paint. =l

...I heard that got fixed.

In later versions, not old ones.

So are my smilies ever gonna be added? ;)

I shall add them now.

Alors on a:

:! :| >) *hypno*

:omg: doesn't work, since :o is a smilie in itself. :o

I've fixed that by making it :!.

Hmm, is it right to substitute :| with :|? It's kind of a backwards compatibility thing, people have been using it as text smiley quite often for a long time, and now all those smileys are (I think?) suddenly converted to an image, which they may not have meant. I can't think of an alternative text that the :| smiley would replace though..

I also added Violet's smilie >~< (weird symbol, sorry >~<). If he creates a GIF version (same also goes for the Fooruman smilie), I will replace it.

FQuist, what about :-| ? Or just something unoriginal like :indifferent:. I doubt people will mind too much, but we could change it anyway just in case.

>~<
You know what else we should add? The thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons used in the J2O downloads.

No color is transparent for bitmaps.*


(*Technically there are 32-bit bitmaps where there is an alpha channel, but they are very rare, and paint doesn't support them.)

So if if it is ':!', why can't it also be ':?' for ':confused:'?

*hypno*

Somehow it lacks something...

I already made an animated version that looks better, but I didn't upload it yet - I will do so asap.

I've converted the :fm: and >~< smilies to gif and added transparency (and for good measure shrunk the files even more).

[img]http://uk.geocities.com/the_boggyb/Foo.gif[/img]
http://uk.geocities.com/the_boggyb/Foo.gif

[img]http://uk.geocities.com/the_boggyb/Batsmile.gif[/img]
http://uk.geocities.com/the_boggyb/Batsmile.gif

(you may need to copy and paste the links into a new window to defeat the referer-checking)

Erm, how do I get the last character for the [img]http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/images/smilies/community/indifferent.gif[/img] smiley?

I have always used an l, but that doesn't convert it.

Shift+Backslash

Backslash is probably the key beneath your backspace key.

I don't have such a key. There is a l on the <> key, but I can't seem to activate it.

On a UK keyboard, press shift and '\' (the key just to the right of the left shift key). :| The symbol actually appears as '¦' on the key, but it produces the correct character.

The thing is, right of the left shift key is the key with the > and < symbols and the l, but no combination of keys made it work for me. The \ is to the right of the 0 for me, by the way.

Well, nevermind, I'll just keep using :l or =l. =D

Can't you put a photo of your keyboard online, so we can see where the key is placed for you?

Erm. The | on German keyboards can be activated by pressing Alt Gr and the <> key at the same time. Also, you could click on the :| smily in the window that opens when you click on "More" under the smilies on the advanced reply page..

I don't have a scanner, so I can't post a photo. :|

However, Faw already told me how to do it, and it works. =D (I thought alt and the other alt were the same thing though)

Erm, I still have to find out how to activate this advanced reply thing. ;D

(I guess it's in the user control panel somewhere)

*edit*

Found it. It's ugly I must say, but I'm okay with that. =P

Hey, I noticed a bug with the >) smiley.
Trying writing :p)

Quote me to see how I did it.

:p)
:p)
:p)
:p>)

Testing...

:o)
:p)
:!)
:|)
*hypno*)

This seems to happen with all smilies. It might be because of the closing > of the img HTML tag. I'll investigate this further, but in the meantime, is there another symbol that could be used for >)?

Maybe })? It'd be less evil than }>

ta-daa

  

  

and

Darn it...FireFox on Mac won't show .gif files?! >O

And I do think >) should become })

:p)

Updated the HYPNO smiley.

*hypno*

Frank, just look at your signature...lol. You will have to fix this. ;P

I don't see any error in his signature. Do you mean his mad smilie or something?

Some links are a bit outdated, but other than that it's fine, isn't it?

No, the mad smiley. The current smileys are kind of bugged. Look: >)
and :p)

I don't see any smileys in his sig. =O

>O LF, Have you got smileys and HTML disabled?
This is what it looks like:
(Dutch Blog>)

So if I'm right, you mean that the current smilies would need transparant borders so that two smilies together would look like :p >) ?

Well, >) would need to become something like }) because of this: :p) or this :()
(quote me to see how I did it)

Then I think I have to agree with you. But another thing is that the Lori icon will look buggy into the Lori Central skin, what is pretty bad though.