From 40b2a5c778a09e5a9089cd68efbb8a8cce9de9c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandra Betouni <alexandra.betouni@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 19:11:17 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [#1608] convert text to emoji automatically
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

For example, typing :D should turn into 😁

Closes #1608
---
 ui/shared/status/StatusChatInput.qml | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ui/shared/status/StatusChatInput.qml b/ui/shared/status/StatusChatInput.qml
index e182dbfb86..1376f9b76c 100644
--- a/ui/shared/status/StatusChatInput.qml
+++ b/ui/shared/status/StatusChatInput.qml
@@ -871,11 +871,21 @@ Rectangle {
                 Keys.onReleased: onRelease(event) // gives much more up to date cursorPosition
                 Keys.onShortcutOverride: event.accepted = isUploadFilePressed(event)
                 leftPadding: 0
-                background: Rectangle {
-                    color: "transparent"
-                }
                 selectionColor: Style.current.primarySelectionColor
                 persistentSelection: true
+                onTextChanged: {
+                    var symbols = ":='xX><0O;*dB8-D#%\\";
+                    if ((length > 1) && (symbols.indexOf(getText((cursorPosition - 2), (cursorPosition - 1))) !== -1)) {
+                        const emojis = EmojiJSON.emoji_json.filter(function (emoji) {
+                            if (emoji.aliases_ascii.includes(getText((cursorPosition - 2), cursorPosition)) ||
+                                emoji.aliases_ascii.includes(getText((cursorPosition - 3), cursorPosition))) {
+                                var has2Chars = emoji.aliases_ascii.includes(getText((cursorPosition - 2), cursorPosition));
+                                replaceWithEmoji("", getText(cursorPosition - (has2Chars ? 2 : 3), cursorPosition), emoji.unicode);
+                            }
+                        })
+                    }
+                }
+
                 onReleased: function (event) {
                     const now = Date.now()
                     if (messageInputField.selectedText.trim() !== "") {