The Smilies Plugin :-)

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, for example, %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Render smilies as icons, like  :-)  as or  :eek:  as

• The name of the topic containig your Smilies. Default: TWiki.SmiliesPlugin
  • Set TOPIC = SmiliesPlugin

• The way the emoticon is displayed. You can use $emoticon (e.g. :D), $url (e.g. %ATTACHURL%/biggrin.gif) and $tooltip (e.g. "big grin").
  Default: <img src="$url" alt="$tooltip" title="$tooltip" border="0" />

      * Set FORMAT = <img src="$url" alt="$tooltip" title="$tooltip" border="0" />

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip SmiliesPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/SmiliesPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/SmiliesPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  pub/TWiki/SmiliesPlugin/*.gif	Plugin icon files

• Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.
• Test if the plugin is correctly installed:
• You will see a series of icons on next line:
  

2013-01-13:	TWikibug:Item7091: Use TWISTY in plugin settings section, installation instructions and change history
2011-07-09:	TWikibug:Item6725: Change global package variables from "use vars" to "our"
2010-09-20:	TWikibug:Item6580: Added "red", "yellow", "green", "blue" smilies
2010-05-15:	TWikibug:Item6433: Doc improvements; replacing TWIKIWEB with SYSTEMWEB
21 Nov 2007:	Doc improvements
16 Mar 2005:	Fixed typo "scull"
5 Mar 2005:	1.004 Crawford Currie prepared for Dakar
21 Nov 2004:	Added benchmarks (no code changes)
21 Aug 2004:	Fixed tooltip for Netscape; added "sealed lips", "thumbs up", "yes" "no", "in love", "skull"
16 Feb 2004:	Added "devil" and "devilwink" smilies (by TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie)
26 Feb 2003:	Added "indifferent" smilie
20 Oct 2002:	Fixed STDERR warning for non-initialized Plugin
20 Apr 2002:	Improved performance; removed non-standard Plugin API dependencies; added standard plugin topic content -- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
23 Nov 2001:	Added TOPIC and FORMAT setting
10 Jun 2001:	Packaged into ZIP
28 Feb 2001:	Initial version