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QrwEmoticons
Qt5 (Widgets) Emoticon library and plugins.
Since its pure Qt code you can use it on almost any platform.
Features
- Copy & Paste support
- Emoticon providers
- Google Noto-Emoji - https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji
- OpenMoji - https://www.openmoji.org
- JoyPixels - https://www.joypixels.com
- Twitter Twemoji - https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
How-To Build
git clone
cd qrwemoticons
git submodule update --init --recursive
Build with QtCreator or manually with qmake and make.
How-To Use
Link your application against the QrwEmoticons library. For a usage example see the "example-app" project.
The emoticons plugins are loaded from the "emoticons" folder in Qt's plugin search locations. For example create a "emoticons" folder next to your application binary or in the Qt installation directory and copy the plugins there.
Update scripts
Emoticons .qrc files
In case of an update of emoticons of a provider (e.g. submodule update) the qrc files have to be updated accordingly.
To do so run the generate_emoticon_qrc.py python script in the plugin source directory.
For example:
cd plugin-google
python ../scripts/generate_emoticon_qrc.py --provider google --dir noto-emoji --filename emoticons_google
Emoticons unicode data
In case the unicode data table needs to be updated (can be downloaded from https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html) run the generate_emoticon_data.py python script (inside the script directory)
python generate_emoticon_data.py -d data > ..\lib\src\QrwEmoticons_data.cpp
Known issues
Unfortunately Qt's SVG rendering capabilities are not mature enough to render Google Noto-Emoji icons properly. Only known workaround is stepping back in the noto submodule to a certain commit when rendering was still working.
License
CreativeCommons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)