Plugin:SmileyAdd/en/Smiley pack specification

MSL (ASL) — Miranda Smiley Library specification. Used for smiley definitions. Authors: Peacow, borkra.

This article defines relationships between text smiley codes and images. Images could be packed into library (dll, icl) or could be standalone images of ico, gif, png, tiff, jpeg, bmp formats.

To support Unicode definitions for smileys, smiley pack should be stored as Unicode. Supported text formats for smiley pack file are: ANSI, UTF-16 (Unicode) and UTF-8. The simplest way to do that in Notepad (for instance) select Save As and then choose Unicode encoding.

Format

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';' — any line that starts from this character considered comment.

Tags you could use in the smiley pack

Tag	Description
Name	string, describes name of the smiley pack.
Author	string, describes author(s) of the smiley pack.
Version	string, describes version string for smiley pack.
Date	string, describes creation date for smiley pack.
Smiley	describes smiley file and text code(s) corresponding to it. See description below for content.
Smiley*	describes hidden smiley (not visible in selector window). Format is the same as for "Smiley". See description below for content.
ButtonSmiley	string, describes text of the smiley that should be drawn on the button. That opens smiley selection window.
SelectionSize	describes size of the image in the selection window. The first parameter is width and the second height.
WindowSize	describes size of the selection window in number of images. The first parameter is width and the second height.

Smiley definition guide

There are 2 styles of smiley definition string:

1) Smileys with plain text replacement:

Smiley = "resourcefile", recourceindex, "smiley1 smiley2 ...", "tooltip text"

2) Smileys with regular expression replacement:

Smiley = "resourcefile", recourceindex, R"smiley regular expression", "insert text", "tooltip text"

3) Smileys as services:

Smiley = "resourcefile", recourceindex, S"service name|parmeter1|parameter2", "tooltip text"

4) Smileys as text (this is pseudo smiley, just text replacement occurs):

Smiley = "", 0, "smiley1 smiley2 ...", "replacement text"

Smiley = "", 0, R"smiley regular expression", "insert text", "replacement text"

Description of fields:

• resourcefile — path or URL to the file containing the image (it could be absolute or relative)
• recourceindex — positive value: relative index in the file. Negative value: resouridentifier.. -100 is resID 100, see ExtractIcon() on the MSDN, for gif images it's a frame number, that will be displayed if animation is disabled or not available.
• smiley? — defines space separated list character sequences, that should be interpreted as smiley.
• smiley regular expression — defines regular expression that should be used for parsing smileys.
• insert text — defines text that will be inserted when smiley clicked in smiley selector, for non regular expression smiley this will be the first smiley in smiley? field.
• tooltip text — optional.
• /service name — name of any Miranda service, if service name starts with '/' protocol service for the contact assumed.
• parameter1 & parameter2 — could be any number, hContact (will be resolved into contact handle) or any string.

Spaces and " require special handling in the smiley definition file:

• In all fields except regular expression fields:
  • %%__%% or %%_%% character sequence should be used in place of space.
  • %%''%% character sequence should be used in place of " (double quote).

• In regular expression fields:
  • spaces should be defined as \s (as usual).
  • double quotes should be defined as \x22.

Icons

For icons in smiley pack the following rules apply: if the resourcefile contains multiple icons for one id, the best color/resolution one will be selected, this allows to auto select the 32bit alphablend on WinXP and lower quality on others.

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Only in .dll and .ico the size of the resource will be taken. All other .icl, etc will scale everything to 16x16.

Examples

;
; examples
;Smiley = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -112, ";P  ;-P"     ->from dll
;Smiley = ".\4peacow.ico", 0, "(peacow)", "The Author"   ->from ico
;Smiley = ".\blabla.exe", 1, ":)"                        ->from exe
;Smiley = ".\bla.icl", 3, ":)", "Happy face :)"          ->from icl;
;Smiley = ".\blabla.gif", 0, ":)"                        ->from gif
;Smiley = ".\blabla.png", 0, ":)"                        ->from png
;Smiley = ".\bla.dll', 5, " *HELP%%__%%ME* DO%%''%%IT%%''%% "  ->with special characters
;        will be used as  *HELP ME* and DO"IT"
;Smiley = ".\blabla.png", 0, R":-*\)", ":)", "Happy face :)"   ->with regular expression

;Smiley = "abc.ico", 0, S"/SendtZer|hContact|4", "Kisses"  ->  sends ICQ tZer
;Smiley = "nudge.ico", 0, S"/SendNudge|hContact|0", "Nudge"  ->  sends Nudge


; smiley on the button
ButtonSmiley = ":-P"

; info
Name    = "Standard Icon Pack 4 SmileyAdd"
Author  = "Peacow"
Date    = "februari 2003"
Version = "1.0"
SelectionSize = 25, 25
WindowSize = 5, 7

; The following are the standard "built in" smileys
Smiley = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -113, ":)  :-)  (:", "SmileyFace :)"
Smiley = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -114, ";)  ;-)  (;"

; hidden smiley:
Smiley* = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -115, ":(  :-(  ):"

Smiley = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -116, ":P  :-P"
Smiley = ".\plugins\smileyadd.dll", -112, ";P  ;-P"

Smiley = "abc.ico", 0, S"/SendtZer|hContact|4", "Kisses"
Smiley = "nudge.ico", 0, S"/SendNudge|hContact|0", "Nudge"