Buddy Icon as link?

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Buddy Icon as link?

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Anyone know of a way to make your buddy icon work as a hyperlink? Think it would be very cool if clickin on the icon got you to a webpage. Is there someway of embedding a link within a graphic file?

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There are two reasons why this cannot work.

The first being that AIM already has the buddy icon parameters set as a button to open your buddy icon preferences for said buddy. In other words when you click on someones buddy icon AIM opens up the BI settings for that buddy. This is within the program and can't be changed.

The second reason is that actions (such as links etc) cannot be integrated into regular graphics. You could easily do this in flash, but AIM does not support flash buddy icons.
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It does not allow flash graphics... heck it does not even support jpeg.
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Post by jester22c »

PhaseDMA wrote:It does not allow flash graphics... heck it does not even support jpeg.
Yes it does...

The file types supported for buddy icons are :

.gif
.jpg
.bmp
.ico
.xbm
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Post by Master Jedi »

jester22c wrote:
PhaseDMA wrote:It does not allow flash graphics... heck it does not even support jpeg.
Yes it does...

The file types supported for buddy icons are :

.gif
.jpg
.bmp
.ico
.xbm
You forgot .wav
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Master Jedi wrote: You forgot .wav
Ah so I did. The ones I listed were just the ones in the file type box in the actual AIM buddy icon selection dialog.
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Post by Anthony »

Hm.. Don't know what I was thinking... PNG? :oops:
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