Chicklets

[Storm Cadet]

The colored chicklets which we use on this site are great for when we post our picks in the selection area.

I always post my Saturday picks on twitter and would really like to post picks there as these colored #'s.

Any idea how or where to import these colored chicklets for use on an iphone?

Thanks in advance!

[JustRalph]

Just got your pm. Great idea. I'm working it over in my head.......

[JustRalph]

well...... I realized that there is an emoji that looks pretty good, but the colors aren't right.........

to get emoji's on your IOS device.........

go to settings, keyboard, add a keyboard........choose Emoji

then hit the little "global" symbol on your regular keyboard (bottom left) to get to emoji's.....

Still working on getting the colors right.........lots of apps for making emoji's ...but most suck!!

[Storm Cadet]

Thanks, yes I already have that loaded...I've tried to copy paste the emojis on the right which are the true colors. I can copy them and send in an email. They look great in the email but once you try to save the image both in iOS and android tablet, it enlarges them and they are almost unreadable.

Good luck!

[JustRalph]

Well, I've found that it can be done, but you must use the twitter API and make it part of an already approved twitter app.

This might be tough........still thinking on it..........

[JustRalph]

Ok. This is not going to happen

I have received the same answer from two different developers.

Twitter would have to approve "native" use and then the graphics would have to be approved one at a time. That's 20 approvals. The graphics would then have to be added to a program or validated API ( whatever that is) in an app that is approved for use and twitter is basically not allowing that anymore.

There are a couple of other ways, but they involve all of your followers downloading the graphics etc.......

I give up

[Storm Cadet]

Thanks for giving it your best shot!

[tupper]

I posted my selections with "chicklets" on Twitter as an image. Let me know if you don't see them.

The image was easily created from scratch in the free/open-source Inkscape vector drawing program.

I didn't bother to scale the font so that it would appear cleaner. However, once that scale is determined and as soon as all of the "chicklets" are created and stored (for pasting into the text), posting picks this way should be a breeze.

[Storm Cadet]

Let me know how it goes!

[tupper]

It's already long "gone."

Please click the link in my above post and tell me what you see.

[tupper]

I found out that Inkscape is available for Android (and for other Linix/Unix OSs, of course) but that it is not available for IOS (Iphone/Ipad).

However, a quick search revealed these vector drawing apps that you should be able to use on your Iphone.

With one of these, you could be easily make tweets with "chicklets" in no time.

Enjoy!

[hracingplyr]

Thinking of buying a surface pro as my net book has bit the dust. My question for the group is have any of you purchased a Surface Pro and what are the pros and cons. Is there won model that's heads and tails above the others?

Bob

[tupper]

Originally Posted by hracingplyr

Thinking of buying a surface pro as my net book has bit the dust. My question for the group is have any of you purchased a Surface Pro and what are the pros and cons. Is there won model that's heads and tails above the others?

Not sure what this inquiry has to do with inserting paceadvantage.com "chicklets" into tweets.

Perhaps it would be best to start a new thread.

[tupper]

@Storm Cadet

Just curious -- were you able to get the "chicklets" into your tweets (like I did)?

[Storm Cadet]

Nope...looks too complicated...I can't find any apps for I phone! But yours look good on that twitter page of yours