A Bit of Fun with Emoticons

[Roger Day]

I have been asked how I got a chainsaw emoticon to work on the forum. So here is the trick....

1) Up load a small animated gif to a share site like Photobucket

2) Copy and paste the tag that the share site provides into your message.

3) If you want it regularly you can create a shortcut button in IE that puts the code on your clipboard for instant pasting.

In Vista download a tiny application called Clip.exe from here...

Spark's Pensieve - Clip.exe - A Command Line tool for the Windows Clipboard

Put it somewhere out the way and create a shortcut to it. In the properties of the short cut there is a box called "Target"

In here will be the address of the Clip.exe application.

Like...C:/somewhere/clip.exe

Add to this the command "put" without the quotes and add the tag for your Icon....Looks like this

C:\somewhere/clip.exe put "Your IMG Tag" ....with the quotes and usual square IMG brackets

Close properties and place this shortcut in the favorites bar folder of you home folders or drag it there actually in IE.

Then when you want the icon press the button and it will load it into the clipboard for you to paste wherever you like.

Thats it!

Have Fun