Auto smiley after : is killing me

Tchey

Hello,

It seems there is an auto-add function for smilies, whenever i use this dots : they show up in an annoying popup, and if i'm not carefull hitting space, here is the unwanted face.

Is there an option i didn't see, to kill them forever ?

Kiori

There isn't one. It's because it's just how the system works. smileys are ":" followed by a word like ':'wink':'. In fact that's how you get a list of them you type : and any word after it and the pop-ups will be there to help.

If you go to the "how to use the forum" post it says:

"The smiley button holds only a small list of smiley, in order to see all smileys type " : " then type a letter like s, and a list will pop-up with available smileys that relate to that, almost every letter calls new smileys and the + sign calls this one :+1: ."

This is just how the forum works internally. But the popup doesn't force you to select one, only if you press enter after : and the word.

Kiori

You know, maybe, as in not likely but who knows. There might be a way to make this, something that users can disable on a per user basis. But you will lose complex smileys like :rage: :grey_question: :warning: :trollface: :joy: , etc. most of them. In truth smileys were originally, a ":" or ";" followed by something so it's in their dna. :tongue:

If you think this is really important usability wise let me know, and I'll keep it around. When I can, I'll see if there is anything that can be done.

Tchey

I myself never use them, nowhere, so if there is an option per user to stop them, i'm in !

Kiori

Also, i don't know if you noticed but if you add the ":" right after a word like 'this:' 'here:' It doesn't come out with the pop-up, only when there is a space before the ":".

Tchey

In many non english languages, included my french one, the rule is to have a space before and after all double dots signs like ; : ! etc,. I know this is an english forum and i should adapt, but it's not easy to manage this kind of habits ! Whatever, it's not a big deal, if an option is possible, fine, if not, i may not die like i first said.

Kiori

Yeah indeed, habits are a good thing in many ways. And don't worry, if there is a way to do this properly(having per user options of the pop-up), I'll find it.

GarromOrcShaman

@Tchey said: In many non english languages, included my french one, the rule is to have a space before and after all double dots signs like ; : ! etc,. I know this is an english forum and i should adapt, but it's not easy to manage this kind of habits ! Whatever, it's not a big deal, if an option is possible, fine, if not, i may not die like i first said.

Just make another habit. If you are here just press Esc button and pop-up vanish. Make a habit to press it after every ":", just like me.

Megalomaniak

I'm so used to IDE's throwing drop-down lists that I have to escape out of that it's not even a big deal to me. :neutral:

GarromOrcShaman

@Megalomaniak said: I'm so used to IDE's throwing drop-down lists that I have to escape out of that it's not even a big deal to me. :neutral:

Not to me neither. Game Maker was throwing intellisense drop-down while writing strings. One get used to something very quickly if you have to do it once pre three minutes.