Is there way to put images in a TextAreaBox()

Other languages can do it, so hopefully it's not as stupid a question as it initially sounds. Is there any way to get images into a TextAreaBox() ?

If not, I will have to remove the TextAreaBox and replace it with a Canvas and draw everything manually, but without the automatic scrollbars and everything, that will get pretty complicated, and more importantly, it could get slow.

So I'm hoping there's a workaround/cheat.

nope. Not in a textarea. You could use a htmlview though. As long as you aren't updating things really quickly that will be plenty good enough.

The only commands I can find that relate to an HTMLView are HTMLViewGo, HTMLViewForward and HTMLViewBack. So I assume you mean writing html to a local file and displaying that?

yup

You, Sir, are a genius. That means I don't have to worry about not being able to format the text in a textbox, because that's possible in an HTML page too.

Thanks a lot.

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You know you can do simple formating with text areas right? There are commands for colouring text as well as changing the style (bold/ italic) which means you can do simple text hi-lighting like in the blitz editor. Of course it's no where near as good as the control you get with html.

So what's this for then?

I didn't actually. I've been reading through this forum to see what tricks and tips I can pick up and I came across an old thread which mentioned that you couldn't change the colour of text.

Good to know. Thanks.






It's basically a learning exercise. I've never done any GUI programming before, nor any network programming. So I'm trying to learn them both at the same time by writing a little client/server chat program.

The images, mixed with formatted text, that I need would be emoticons.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/bpdocs/command.php?name=FormatTextAreaText&ref=gui_cat

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