Broken emoticons

[burek 0]

We are using emoticon pack made for apex, which was successfully used on all versions from v1.1 up until v1.3, which now doesn't show emoticons for that particular emoticon pack.

Can you please examine what could be the problem?

Here is the emoticon pack in question: http://www.gusari.org/uploads/Gusari2009.zip

Edited February 25, 2010 by burek

[Mek 13]

I didn't have any problems with my emoticons (namely "Chat Large") but my brother did. If I remember correctly, he disabled emoticons, restarted Apex, enabled this emopack, then restarted apex again and it worked.

[burek 0]

I just did what you said, but with no luck. Emoticons are still not displayed.

Just to mention, at least 30+ users reported this so far, so I believe this is not just a simple issue, but some broken functionality.

Can some of developers try that emopack and see what causes the trouble (maybe some smilies are "incompatible" or something), so I can temporarily resolve the issue until some bugfix is released?

Thanks in advance.

[Mek 13]

The XML parser is completely replaced in the new Apex. It does not like invalid XML files and from what I just saw, the XML file is invalid. For example, line 11

<Emoticon HintText="014" PasteText="=<" Expression="014" Bitmap="Images\Gusari-2009\014.bmp"/>

should really be

<Emoticon HintText="014" PasteText="=&lt;" Expression="014" Bitmap="Images\Gusari-2009\014.bmp"/>

In the XML attributes (between two quotation marks), change all < to &lt;

> to &gt;

& to &amp;

" to &quot;

and you should be ready to go.

[burek 0]

Thanks a lot, that was the issue here

However, the last emoticon ":gusari:" is not displayed at all. It was a bit bigger image than other emoticons (152 x 125 pixels), which was also displayed correctly in previous versions of apex, but is not displayed correctly now (see the screenshot).

Was there any other change, regarding emoticons, other than new XML parser, that could've afftect this?

Thanks again for your help :)

Edited February 26, 2010 by burek

[Nekito 0]

The emoticons of WinMessenger don't work anymore, as to do for seeing again her... thanks

[Crise 26]

The new xml parsing is stricter in terms of xml validity and otherwise... please see that there are no markup errors in your xml file (as explained in the post above).

[Nekito 0]

An EmoPacks can be had that works with Apex 1.3.... thanks

[Crise 26]

Si puo avere un EmoPacks funzionante con Apex 1.3 ....grazie

Unfortunately I can only assist you in English...

[Lee 84]

An EmoPacks can be had that works with Apex 1.3.... thanks

PeerWeb and Nerdcore emoticons work fine (the default ones).

[Nekito 0]

the emoticons of winmessenger don't work with apex 1.3

[Mek 13]

the emoticons of winmessenger don't work with apex 1.3

Probably the xml file of the emoticon pack is invalid. Read my post if it is the case.

[Nekito 0]

excuse but I don't know how to modify cannot give me the file already modified... thanks

[Mek 13]

excuse but I don't know how to modify cannot give me the file already modified... thanks

Then post the xml file here.

[Nekito 0]

File XML to be modified for Apex 1.3... thanks My link

[Mek 13]

ok, try this one

WinMessenger.xml

[Nekito 0]

it excuses it doesn't work

[Mek 13]

Ah, I overlooked something. Try again.

WinMessenger.xml

[Nekito 0]

does it excuse with Windows 7 they are seen but with Windows XP No how come?

[RGPonce 0]

With me nothing that was sad here works,

My emoticons is broken since v131.

Here what show up:

My os is windows7 64bits and unfortunately i'll have to downgrade to v130

[Mek 13]

With me nothing that was sad here works,

My emoticons is broken since v131.

Here what show up:

My os is windows7 64bits and unfortunately i'll have to downgrade to v130

Make sure the XML file of your smile pack is valid (by using the w3c validator) as you might be overlooking something.

[Lee 84]

With me nothing that was sad here works,

My emoticons is broken since v131.

Here what show up:

My os is windows7 64bits and unfortunately i'll have to downgrade to v130

What emoticon pack are you using?

[RGPonce 0]

What emoticon pack are you using?

The default packs: nerdcore and peerweb