Posting Pics in Yahoo Messenger

[handi06]

I have seen all the scrolling text, and lots of Dings. But I want a yahoo chat room the other night, and a user was posting jpegs directly in the room. Not a hyperlink, but the actual pictures. He would not tell anyone how he was doing it and I have not been able to find out. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? If you do, please be so kind as to let me know how!

Thanks

<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

[Jeff]

Hi Handi and welcome to BigBlueBall!

I don't know what it is about the IM "tricks" but there are a lot of people who don't want to share. I don't get it, but I guess it makes them feel special to know what others don't.

As for posting images, I'm not really sure. The closest thing I've seen to that was something posted at one of my favorite sites for stuff on Yahoo Messenger: WackyB. They had some recent posts in their forums on creating text with a background image.

For example, copy and paste this into your Yahoo IM window and send it:

&lt;font size=16 style=background:url(http://home.kimo.com.tw/aoeex2/0023.gif)&gt; Merry X-Mas from http://wackyb.co.nz

You should see a Christmas greeting from WackyB with twinkling stars in the background. The trouble with this is that the background image only appears behind text.

So, Yahoo Messenger provides some limited support for HTML, and there must be a way to do it (you've seen it), but I don't know what it is... YET! <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.com

[Fanatic]

You can emulate the effect of posting an image by itself (using the technique described above by Jeff) by experimenting with the font size and using a "space" character. You can enter the space character as an ASCII code: just string together "&" "nbsp" ";"*(removing the quotes), and repeat as necessary.

Fanatic



Edited by - fanatic on 12/28/2001 15:24:37

[jinxkitten]

Hi, i was hunting for new smileys, and ran across Scotto's page,
http://www.geocities.com/scottoslab/
It has two sets of new smileys, teddy bears and aliens.. and also what he calls clippies.... the ones he has are his own, but i think the format could be used for any graphic that exists online?

Just type, in the lil typing box (does that have a proper name?? )
"&lt;url&gt;&lt;img src="http://scottoslab.tripod.com/ym/heart.gif" BORDER=0&gt;"
(without the quotes, of course) to get a small heart.

For some reason, i also get the final angle bracket, and have found droppping it...
"&lt;url&gt;&lt;img src="http://scottoslab.tripod.com/ym/heart.gif" BORDER=0"
works perfectly well, and eliminates the bracket....

See Scottos page for more of his, or try your own... *S* hope this helps, enjoy!

[Jeff]

Very cool, Jinxkitten. Thanks for sharing. <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.com

[detn8r]

oh jinx-e-cat, jinx-e-cat, where r u, i love u....... hehehehe (meet the parents ahahaha)

ne way, nice find!!! but i still get " and &gt; with the heart pics from the first hyperlink and the second...
i get :
for the second one and : for the first one... it doesnt bother me really, just that u said the second 1 has no extra texts in it, but i get some extras<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
and i love this one jeff!!!


--chewy

[Jeff]

Did you drop the brackets like Jinx-kitten suggested?

Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.com

[detn8r]

damn it, i guess they only work in yahoo (clap in head)
duh!!!!!

ok what i get 4 the heart pics r:::"(heart pic) &gt; (second link given)
& the first link i got showed::: "(pic of heart)" &gt;
they dont come in crystal clear 4 me, like u said the second was "supposed to come in as"

and ive seen these kinda pics like the first post had said, but what they were, was actual pics like real pics of things animals, ppl, etc... i guess no one knows who to get those... i had also seen these kinda pics in www.teenchat.com, but some of them were evil like nuddies...lol (pigs<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>)

sew, ne way....

--chewy

[detn8r]

aaaaahahahaha thats weird, i dont get the pics one minute, sign off the net, come back on refresh the page and i get tripod pics lol, thats weird and its also weird, i go to "www.hotmail.com" and it brings up tripod.ca, and if i go to"hotmail.com" without the "www." it brings up hotmail's page, damn weird ****!

--chewy

[detn8r]

damn y can i think of all my things in one post eh! grrr
ne ways, i think i had posted that i was using a program called ho0ka, what this is"supposed" to be is a booter program, but the "booter" part of it doesnt work on it, but it does have some really cool other effects like: what jeff had showed, the merry x-mas text... there is an example of the spirkling above... with the program u can type ur own text and it will "spirkile" "bleed effect" etc... about 10 different ones. in this part of the program it also has a button called the "osama binladen button" wut this does if u click on it, it sends a pic to the IM of a pic of osama binladen's actual pic changing to a devil...(sry to ne 1's religin this migh offend) it also has a picture sender...ive never used it yet, but that might just be that pic sender into the chat room, i have to enter a hyperlink 4 the pic, as far as i know, and it will send th pic... i downloaded this program in an email, and if i can/have tyme i will post the url for the download, or u can emai and request this program @ chewybear2001ca@yahoo.com... and i will email it to u.

tkz ppl

--chewy