How to add or insert png or emoticon in a textbox ?

Question

I develop chat box for my project.
I want add support for emoticons (like msn) to mu chat box.
Can you tell me simple way to add or insert image (png) in textbox ? (VB code if possible ?  or xaml ? )
Thanks a lot

try chat here : UserName : guest / Pass : guest

http://www.furukoo.fr/furukoov2/TestPage.html

Thanks a lot

Yvan

Answer 1

Hello,  I don't think it's possible to add the image in TextBox. You can take a look at this sample http://michaelsync.net/2008/04/14/silverlight-2-beta1-rich-text-viewer

I got your comment. Do you think that it's so complex? I think it's not that complex.

 

Answer 2

try this,

http://www.codeplex.com/richtextedit

Sharker Khaleed Mahmud
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Answer 3

Thanks for quick reply ...

I got your comment. Do you think that it's so complex? I think it's not that complex.

Your RichTextBox is fully fonctionalities. Great.

I just want TextBox whit emoticon support. Il dont need full option like your RichTextBox.
What is your way for adding msn emoticones and insert in the text ?

I just want to understand how to.

Yvan

Answer 4

A textbox is inherently a bit limited in what it can do, mainly so we don't have fully-featured high-graphics textboxes for every input method. Basically, all it can hold is text. The ability to actually put an image - an object of its own, inside, a rich textbox is kind of necessary. I might bet that most existing IM clients use something like that. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

I try to learn RichTextBox editeur.
But they don't work.
I try :
- one TextBox for enter message (SendBox)
- one TextBox for displaying (ChatBox)

Have you sample ?

Thanks

Answer 6

Hi Furukoo !

 

I think we can add image in TextBox, I got your forum link from google while facing same issue.

Try this :

<TextBox x:Name="txt" Width="16" Height="16" HorizontalAlignment="Left" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Margin="0">
     <TextBox.Background>
         <ImageBrush ImageSource="Images/icon_error.png" />
     </TextBox.Background> 
    </TextBox>

 

Hope it works.

 

 

 

Answer 7

Thanks dheeraj,

I am trying to use Silverlight 4 RichTextBox.

Answer 8

You can try this code and this works:

RichTextBox rtb = new RichTextBox();

Paragraph _para = new Paragraph();

InlineUIContainer _inLine = new InlineUIContainer();

 _img.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("images/someimage.png", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute));
_img.Width = 20;
_img.Height = 20;

_inLine.Child = _img;
 
_para.Inlines.Add(_inLine);
_para.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());

rtb.Blocks.Add(_para);