BBM Pig emoticon

[JerseyDriver]

These are great, copied and pasted, set up autotext with some misspelling of the word I associate with the icon so I can just type them right in. Only problem is, I just sent a message to one of the guys, and he just sees the black squares. So does he need to add these as well? is this a ver 5 BBM thing only? Doesn't do me a lot of good to have them if no one else can see them.

[jaydee5799]

I think it may have to be version 5.0.0.x of BBM to be viewed, yes.
Wasn't the 4.x devoid of pics etc? My guess would be yes, you need version 5.0.0.x of BBM to view these icons. I could be wrong. Someone will come along and correct me if I am.

[katiepea]

Originally Posted by reeneebob

This is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

So if I wanted to use these emotes, I have to take lord knows how many hours and individually add each one to Autotext and assign shortcuts? All because RIM for whatever reason didn't feel like adding them themselves?

Eff you RIM.

while these icons are new, people have been using autotext to display characters for years, i added all these new ones that i would use in about 20 minutes, i can only imagine it taking hours if you had no hands, and nobody said you had to use them.

[JerseyDriver]

Originally Posted by jaydee5799

I think it may have to be version 5.0.0.x of BBM to be viewed, yes.
Wasn't the 4.x devoid of pics etc? My guess would be yes, you need version 5.0.0.x of BBM to view these icons. I could be wrong. Someone will come along and correct me if I am.

Thought it might be that, have to see what he's running. Thanks

[Modelchick305]

I pasted them into my bb and they show up but how do I save them?

[JerseyDriver]

Originally Posted by Modelchick305

I pasted them into my bb and they show up but how do I save them?

With these, you have to paste them into a chat and hit enter--so pick a friend, or someone in the thread had a great idea to add yourself as a contact. After you have them in a conversation, you have to scroll to the one you want to keep, hit you menu/BB button and choose Select. Then highlight the emoticon, hit menu again, choose copy. Hit menu again, press E till you get "edit autotext". When the auto text list comes up, press menu again, select New. Here under "replace" select some text you will use to bring up the emoticon (I used pggy for the pig). Then scroll down to "With" and hit menu then Paste. Save and when ever you type that text, the corresponding emoticon will pop up--in BBM, SMS and emails btw. Hope that helps.

[powert33]

I'd love someone to send to me. I've sent to myself as email and I see all the black boxes but have no idea how to just copy to bbm?? Where in bbm? How? When I copy and try to add to auto text it just says copy not paste where I want to put the icon. Please send a file to me 21607da0 powert33@crackberry.com

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[Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes]

I just pasted them in a chat to my self which I will keep open as long as I can for easy pasting of the symbols to other convos. If I acidentally close it I have them saved elsewhere as well. If you save them to autotext (which is a pain anyway)there is just to many to remember the code for...

[JerseyDriver]

Originally Posted by powert33

I'd love someone to send to me. I've sent to myself as email and I see all the black boxes but have no idea how to just copy to bbm?? Where in bbm? How? When I copy and try to add to auto text it just says copy not paste where I want to put the icon. Please send a file to me 21607da0 powert33@crackberry.com

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Check the post directly above yours

[jaydee5799]

Originally Posted by powert33

I'd love someone to send to me. I've sent to myself as email and I see all the black boxes but have no idea how to just copy to bbm?? Where in bbm? How? When I copy and try to add to auto text it just says copy not paste where I want to put the icon. Please send a file to me 21607da0 powert33@crackberry.com

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You can follow the post of JerseyDriver above. He's got all the steps listed for you. If you have all black boxes in the email then you are doing it RIGHT. Now copy those boxes by highlighting and clicking COPY, and then opening a chat in BBM and hitting menu PASTE. Follow the directions above yours.

[JerseyDriver]

So my question is this, and it was asked before. If I have a pic, or even the ASCII code for an icon, how can I get it to this format? And bear in mind, I'm on a Mac too.

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[ChattieCat11]

what is auto reply?

[jaydee5799]

Originally Posted by ChattieCat11

what is auto reply?

I think you mean auto text?
Go to BB Options/ Auto text to see. Its when you mistype a word and your bb corrects it, or you type "my sig" and your full signature pops into the email, bbm etc. Or in this case, if we associate a picture icon with a word, we get the little pics..For example, I type flower and I get a picture of a pretty pink flower to use in bbm, email, etc.

[Modelchick305]

Originally Posted by JerseyDriver

With these, you have to paste them into a chat and hit enter--so pick a friend, or someone in the thread had a great idea to add yourself as a contact. After you have them in a conversation, you have to scroll to the one you want to keep, hit you menu/BB button and choose Select. Then highlight the emoticon, hit menu again, choose copy. Hit menu again, press E till you get "edit autotext". When the auto text list comes up, press menu again, select New. Here under "replace" select some text you will use to bring up the emoticon (I used pggy for the pig). Then scroll down to "With" and hit menu then Paste. Save and when ever you type that text, the corresponding emoticon will pop up--in BBM, SMS and emails btw. Hope that helps.

Thanks I will definitely give it a try

[NellieRose]

Originally Posted by Seven.07

Anyone get it working on a 8530? I can't get them to work.

No luck here...I can't even email it to myself without the copy and paste showing up as ampersands followed by numbers.