Question Smiles/Emoticons question

Hi frineds, first thanks for the nice forum. I am using it in my site, you can see it on this adres http://xn--80ak3bk.net it is in Cyrillic alphabet, that is whay i am posting such a strange link, alo the site is all in Bulgarian lang. So you probably will do not understand anything, however you can use google translate if you wish to read something from it.
I am writing this because i have a few questions about the "kunena" forum.

I am using emoticons whit strange purpouse (i am noob, and i have very hard time understanding joomla), i have made unusual alphabet, wich i intend to use in forum. And because i do not have any idea hot to use special fonts, i just uploaded the caracters like smiles.(you can see it in attached file emoticon-caracters.jpg)
So far so good. I have made a characters in png files whith about 20-15 pixels dymentions and i uploaded them whit a gray dublicate having "-gray" extension in a file name, for example i made a file a.png and another one a-gray.png.Also all files are in Grayscale mode.
What did not seem to work, is several things. First is when i tryied to attach theese character-smiles in post i get rendered in the post, a strange code wich is not suppouse to be there (i will upload image whit this, leater whit editing my post or if i can not, i will attach it in a replay answer the file name shoud be strange_code.jpg)
The other thing is that gray emoticons do not appear in the post previw, while you answer it (the image for that, shoud be named here_shoud_be_emoticons.jpg)
And the las thing is that i would like to ask how can i algin my text in a "full"?

This is it, for now. Thanks in advance!


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One more thing, that i forgot to ask. While posting theese character-smiles, they do not seem to respect the space between them(i mean that, no matter how much i press "space" buttnon between the charater-emoticons they are still have the same space between them). Is it fixable?

G'day, Horus, and welcome to Kunena.

Thank you for your questions about Kunena emoticons. I know that it must be even more difficult writing in English. In fact, it's because there are two different ways to spell the word grey in English that is partly responsible for why you may not have been able to find the answer sooner! :lol:

There is a good article in our documentation area that should help you to build and customise your own emoticons: see Smiley management .

The reason that your "gray" (grey) images do not show in the message preview is explained in Problem emotion in preview .

Would you like to explain more what you mean by "aligning your text in a 'full'"? Do you mean that you would like to have your text "full justified" perhaps? If that is what you mean, I don't think it's possible to do with Kunena at this time. You can left justify, right justify or centre your text.

Hello Sozzled!

And thanks for the replay. My english is bad indeed, and i am making a lot of mistakes, wich i hope you will excuse, i will try to improve my spelling.
However in a file names, i use the correct spell- "grey", but it should do no any difference, because i still have to pick, theese files manualy for DB, right?
I wish to thank you for you help, i had point theese files in DB as it is explainеd on the address that you provided. And it is seem to work, emoticons are showing now on a replay preview.
About you'rs question for "full justified", i am not shure. But from the examples that you gave, i think that it is just what i ment.
Still there is a remaing of few questions that need answer, for example the question about the space between the emoticons.
Tank you again!

I'm waiting on an answer to a question that I just asked , that might help you with increasing the spacing between emoticons. The only other way that I can suggest how you can increase the spacing is to create emoticon images that have some "space" either on the left or on the right.

The standard "smileys" don't have any space between them (e.g. :X:S:()