Equivalent of right click and posting smilies

[evennewerbie]

A good part of my Internet use is participating in forums. On my PC I can do several useful things with a right click. Can copy and paste. Can just copy the address of a post, and then paste which is useful if I want to refer it without actually quoting.

And I can use smilies/emoticons. It took some time to get proficient but sometimes I can drag and drop them into a post, sometimes can highlight the emoticon, Copy, and paste into the post, sometimes I copy an address into an 'Insert Image' box that is at the top of the forum and then I will see it when I either 'Preview Post' or post.

None of this seems to work with my I-pad. Sometimes a blue square with a ? comes up, visible on the IPad but not on the computer screen.

I know the I-pad also has its own emoticons which I can call up - sometimes and sometimes not dde10

(There - before a miles was showing above, now not, now I try again )

I don't like them much and I would like to use the much vaster publicly available range.

How can I do this and other right-clickety things on the I-pad?

 

[J. A.]

A good part of my Internet use is participating in forums. On my PC I can do several useful things with a right click. Can copy and paste. Can just copy the address of a post, and then paste which is useful if I want to refer it without actually quoting.

And I can use smilies/emoticons. It took some time to get proficient but sometimes I can drag and drop them into a post, sometimes can highlight the emoticon, Copy, and paste into the post, sometimes I copy an address into an 'Insert Image' box that is at the top of the forum and then I will see it when I either 'Preview Post' or post.

None of this seems to work with my I-pad. Sometimes a blue square with a ? comes up, visible on the IPad but not on the computer screen.

I know the I-pad also has its own emoticons which I can call up - sometimes and sometimes not dde10

(There - before a miles was showing above, now not, now I try again dde10)

I don't like them much and I would like to use the much vaster publicly available range.

How can I do this and other right-clickety things on the I-pad?

To simulate a right click with your iPad, it's mostly tap and hold, and then there are different options you may choose from:








Or even more:




APOD

It's the same when you try to paste something: long tap and hold




And something like this will appear.

 

[J. A.]

Also, look at Settings - General - Keyboard - Keyboards. See if you can add an emoji keyboard.

Then, if you write something, you can change keyboards by tapping the globe next to the number-button. When I do it, I can choose between three keyboards:




When I tap "Emoji", I have a large variety of smileys ... I can choose from:












This is just a small part of my possibilities.

 

[evennewerbie]

Also, look at Settings - General - Keyboard - Keyboards. See if you can add an emoji keyboard.

Then, if you write something, you can change keyboards by tapping the globe next to the number-button. When I do it, I can choose between three keyboards:

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45268"/>

When I tap "Emoji", I have a large variety of smileys ... I can choose from:

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45269"/>

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45270"/>

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45271"/>

This is just a small part of my possibilities.

dde10 Yes I do have the emoji keyboard. Firstly I do not like them much and on my PC I access a much larger variety that I like better.
Secondly they do not always work, you can see in my first post that what were supposed to be emoticons, and were at first, have been replaced by short codes.

Now I try some more.

dde33 dde15 dde3c ddcbc.

I don't know what you see, whilst drafting I saw emoticons, but after I posted I just see codes like 'dde33'

 

[J. A.]

dde10 Yes I do have the emoji keyboard. Firstly I do not like them much and on my PC I access a much larger variety that I like better.
Secondly they do not always work, you can see in my first post that what were supposed to be emoticons, and were at first, have been replaced by short codes.

Now I try some more.

dde33 dde15 dde3c ddcbc.

I don't know what you see, whilst drafting I saw emoticons, but after I posted I just see codes like 'dde33'

It's right, you can't use them here. :-(
There are just a few, which you can see when in website view and posting, if I remember this right.




When you look at them with the app, they look like this:
:thumbs::thumbsdown::ipad-keyboard::ipad-case:

There are also some where you just need your normal keyboard: :-( ;-) 8)

 

[leelai]

For a full list of emoticons you can do on your keyboard, have a look here.....enjoy!

http://www.ipadforums.net/misc.php?do=showsmilies

 

[evennewerbie]

dde10
Now I try some more.

dde33 dde15 dde3c ddcbc.
'

dde33 dde15 dde3c ddcbc.

:dde33: :dde15: :dde3c: :ddcbc:

Nope, not working

 

[J. A.]

dde33 dde15 dde3c ddcbc.

:dde33: :dde15: :dde3c: :ddcbc:

Sorry, as I told you before: the smileys from the Emoji keyboard don't work in iPF.

 

[evennewerbie]

It's right, you can't use them here. :-(
There are just a few, which you can see when in website view and posting, if I remember this right.

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45287"/>

When you look at them with the app, they look like this:
:thumbs::thumbsdown::ipad-keyboard::ipad-case:

There are also some where you just need your normal keyboard: :-( ;-) 8)

Not sure what you are saying here. I did succeed in posting a smiley using these colon-bracket type codes which are fairly universal in sites. :-( ;-)

A few of them I remember though never needed to before except In sms's, What is even the point of the emoji keyboard if nothing comes up?

I can see 3 versions of your post. One on the thread. Different vision of smileys if I click on the post and see it on its own. In the quote I have before me while writing it is different Gain with no smileys visible.

:confused smiley:

Oh and as I write this I can't even italicise, I have to write out square bracket I etc.

Strange that iPad and thjs forum are so backwards in this respect. : no offence smiley:

I don't get it - when can you use these emojis? What is the point if you can't?

It's not just this forum I can't post emoji and other smileys, it's all forums (except I think I can use each forum's own in-house smileys but I want mor than that).

At the moment I often have a forum page open on iPad and my PC at the same time! write text on IPad then decorate or do difficult things with the PC, but not a very satisfactory or rational system.

 

[J. A.]

You're able to italicise in website view.
You have more possibilities there than through iPF app itself.
You can change the font and it's size...




My post in website view

 

[Mickey330]

One of the main issues you are experiencing is that Apple/iOS, like Android (and other mobile OSs) have proprietary emojis. For example, with few exceptions, Apple emojis can be used and viewed by other iDevices only. Other OSs, to include computers, cannot decode those emojis. Thus, you get gobbledegook. The differing operating systems are not created/designed to be able to read other, proprietary code.

That's why most forums have their own set of smileys/emoticons/emoji-like characters. That forum's software has been designed to be able to produce (and read) their own character coding. Those will always work on that forum, but won't on another. It's all a coding thing (with most using the "standard" ASCII codes - such as a colon and a right parentheses equaling a smiley face). It's also limited because of the coding issues - it takes a lot to write software for a forum.

Your best bet, if you want to use emoji-like characters across various platforms, is to use UNICODE characters. They can be viewed (decoded) across any device. Of course, they are more limited in scope/amount, but that's all we've got to work with. Or, stick with the emoticons offered by the forum you are browsing. Then, everyone can see them while they are at that forum.

Hope this clarifies.

Marilyn

 

[evennewerbie]

You're able to italicise in website view.
You have more possibilities there than through iPF app itself.
You can change the font and it's size...

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45302"/>

My post in website view

Sorry, maybe I don't know what you mean by 'website view'.

I wondered if this was the name of another app, but didn't find one.

This stimulated the thought that I didn't say all my browsing with iPad has been in Safari. Could this limitation be of the browser?
I have at one point tried to install Firefox on the iPad but it didn't work for some reason.

 

[Elizellen]

A get-around I use on other forums is to first find a gif I liked and save it to the ipad then use the insert image option and upload from my ipad saved photos. Another way is to insert the url of the .jpg file of the image using the same insert image option (at least I think I did that a few times when on my ipad - I am on my laptop at the moment so working from memory)

 

[MoonlitSonata]

Sorry, maybe I don't know what you mean by 'website view'.

I wondered if this was the name of another app, but didn't find one.

This stimulated the thought that I didn't say all my browsing with iPad has been in Safari. Could this limitation be of the browser?
I have at one point tried to install Firefox on the iPad but it didn't work for some reason.

Website view refers to using safari to access the site, ipadforums.net.

 

[scifan57]

Sorry, maybe I don't know what you mean by 'website view'.

I wondered if this was the name of another app, but didn't find one.

This stimulated the thought that I didn't say all my browsing with iPad has been in Safari. Could this limitation be of the browser?
I have at one point tried to install Firefox on the iPad but it didn't work for some reason.

Firefox can't be installed on iPads or other iOS devices.