Inline image in html dynamic textbox

[mobius1983]

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can help, I have been going around in circles for days!!

I am building a chat room for a charity, it uses a php socket server and a flash front end. The flash has a dynamic html text box and each xml communication from the server is formatted and added to the htmlText.

Everything is working fine, but I wanted to add the functionality of sending 'emoticons' with the chat. To do this I format the message coming from the server to replace the shortcut string with an <img> tag,

 msgBody =  msgBody.split("(1)").join("<img src='1.jpg' height='14px' width='14px' hspace='0' vspace='0' />");}

but (and here is the annoying BIG but!) it all works fine apart from the images always appear on a separate line below the text rather than inline even though a trace of the html looks good.

Anyone that can help would save me pulling my hair out over the next few days!

Many thanks,
Nick

 

[kennethkawamoto]

This is a well known issue, and there are no easy workarounds. Using a smiley font is the easiest solution. Or you can code it using ScrollPane - actually people has done this for a long time, if you Google I'm sure you can find the code or two.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk