Hi,

  I'm pretty certain Flashchat[1] uses it, and I also recall a
textfield component released a couple of years back that supported
emoticons. I'm not sure how good their solutions are, but they seemed
to work..

Cheers
-K
[1]: http://www.tufat.com/s_flash_chat_chatroom.htm

On 20/11/05, Karina Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have a working FlashComm chat programme, dedicated to online counselling.
> It's been up and running for over half a year now, but now the client wants
> me to add some new features, one of which is emoticons.
>
> I'm using the TextArea for the history component and formatting the text
> with html, so I thought adding the emoticons would be a simple matter of
> using the <img> tag in the TextArea. But it doesn't want to work that way -
> the emoticons are not displayed inline, but at the beginning of the next
> line, wrapping the following text around them.
> I need to find a way to to make them display in the same way as a user would
> expect from a chat application. I've done some research, but haven't found
> anything suitable yet. I also don't want to use an emoticon font, because
> the results are not what I'm looking for.
>
> Any ideas? Is it possible to use a style sheet to position them correctly?
> Or give all images ids to move them around? Would I need to overlay them on
> top of the text? Nothing too complicated I hope, I've only estimated a
> couple of days for the job...
>
> Thanks,
> Karina
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