solved Smiley/chat replacement string question

I have about 200 custom smileys loaded in my Smiley module...which also get used in my jrChat program.

Almost all of them are .gifs with a replacement string surround of: "(____)"

All of these smileys have always worked fine this way in my site posts, comments, etc...in the tinymce editor by using the smiley button. However they are showing working properly when sued in my jrChat, using the smiley button there.
I CAN change all of these in a couple of hours or so manually to anything I need to, for example to the: [(___)] string which seems to work 'sometimes' in chat.. but that's not working consistently either, though better than "(_____)"

However, before I undertake changing the strings for all of them (on both my sites...400 gifs in all, yikes)....please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall(?) that you JrTeam had made an adjustment to the Chat feature that accommodated the "(___)" style for the gifs. I thought you had made it so it worked for the strings with quotation marks as well...?
But the "(____)" gifs are not working now in chat for some reason- i thought I had them all working fine in chat a few weeks ago. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly.



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updated by @strumelia: 05/09/17 05:15:13AM

don't change anything yet. This should be working.

Will try to setup to replicate here. If we can replicate it we can fix it.

I think the issue you're reporting is: "some smileys are not working correctly in some locations".

Could you let me know which smileys and which locations please. Thanks

It's only in my jrChat that there's a problem. The same smileys that are working fine on the rest of my site (via tinymce editor and 'smiley button'...in forum posts, comments, etc)...are not showing up properly in my jrChat.
Here's a screenshot showing various probs with the smileys - I have about 200 msileys loaded in my Smileys module- almost all of which have strings using quotes, i.e. like: "(sadcat)".

See screenshot- at first the "(coffee)" smiley in chat didn't show- I changed the string to: [(coffee)] and it statred showing up ok in chat. I did the same for the "(bug)" smiley and it then shows up ok as [(bug)]. But I then did the same for the "(spaghetti)" smiley and it still won't show up right in chat no matter how much i clear the cache, restart browser, etc. I'm sort of stumped now. Your jr defualt smileys like for :D show up fine in chat btw.

Michael please note that I only have the jrChat active on my whistle site, not on FOTMD.com ... but it's the same Admin login.


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updated by @strumelia: 02/05/17 12:59:49PM

Great. Thanks. Dont change any more, i'll get this fixed.

No rush- thank you!


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Think I have this fixed for the next smiley version 1.2.3.

Will get another set of eyes on the code to check it then get it released.

Spaghetti.

Thanks so much!

(every one need spaghetti smiley)


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