UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Naming Message Icons?

Is there an easy way to have the message icons appear based on alphabetical order, instead of numerical order? This way, the icons can be named instead of displaying as "icon4" during a mouseover.

Furthermore, the problem with having icons named "icon1", icon2", etc. is if you alter the image for icon1, people will continue to see the old cached "icon1" image instead of the new one.

I see two ways to do solve this (for my needs):

1) change the for-next $iconlist routine to display based on alphabetical order instead of counting numbers.

2) Hard code a drop-down HTML select list to replace the $iconlist routine altogether, where I would just type out all the options - in order - that I want to display.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make either method work? I'm certain it's quite simple to make the second work, but I'm wary of messing anything up since I'm not very well-versed in Perl.

Thanks!

I made a pretty complex hack for changing message icons into clickable smilies and it involes allowing you to use any filename for icons.

get it from

http://elym.tripod.com

I tested on 6.30 and it works with 6.30 with a little change.

hope that helps you.

Ely_M, thanks for the response/help. Is there any easy way to modify your message icon code into a drop-down? I have 67+ icons and that's too much clutter to have in rows above my textbox! Either that or can we create a link that will display all the message icons (like you have) in a new window, select an icon, and then the window closes and that icon is selected (like the Avatar feature for 6.3x)?