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[Sergey Tkachenko]

1. Simple demo
http://www.trichview.com/support/files/chatcodes.zip (for Delphi)

This demo shows how to add text with some codes:
\b - bold on/off
\i - italic on/off
\u - underline on/off
\cRRGGBB - text color
\kRRGGBB - text background color

2. Advanced demo with plain text input
http://www.trichview.com/support/files/chatcodes2.zip (for Delphi)

This demo has almost complete ready-to-use chat window functionality.
In addition to the demo above, it supports the commands:
\f"FONTNAME" - changes font name
\sNN - changes font size to NN points (it's also possible to use one digit \sN followed by non-digit character; if this character is a space, it is not displayed)
This demo supports:
- Emoticons. They can be easily customized, just modify CreateEmoticons procedure. In this demo, bitmaps are used, but you can easily change them to animated gifs.
- URL detection
- message preview as you type.


3. Advanced demo with rich text text input
http://www.trichview.com/support/files/chatcodeswysiwyg.zip (for Delphi)

This demo uses the same commands as the demo above, but the message is typed in TRichViewEdit instead of TEdit.
The demo converts the message to a string (using the codes described above), then this string is parsed and added to the chat window.

History
2008-Dec-11: correction for Delphi 2009
2009-Jun-8: correction for Delphi 2009
2010-Apr-15: the third demo

See also:
- Contact list demo http://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12608

[Guest]

so good example.


i can make work with the component TFont dialog

How i can make work like in the demo using the color dialog.?

Thanks

[Sergey Tkachenko]

This demo already has a button (Button1) allowing choosing color from dialog

[Guest]

yes i know.

but i want use the FontDialog. at the same way that in the
demo is using the color dialog


then a button to chose the font, the color., and size.
using the FontDialog.

thanks.

[Sergey Tkachenko]

I do not think that using font dialog is a good idea.
Ok, it's possible to add a chat code like \f"Times New Roman".
But there are on/off switches like \b, so font depends on commands which were added in the string before this place.

[Guest]

Ho i can do that. ?

add

\f"Times New Roman".

[Sergey Tkachenko]

The new version with new \f"FONTNAME" command:
http://www.trichview.com/support/files/chatcodes2.zip

[Guest]

checking, the new demo.

Thanks.

[carpii]

Thanks Sergey, this is very useful and saved me a lot of time learning how the styles work. I will be purchasing soemtime soon, so thankyou again for this example.

Carpii

[Zepoux]

Hello all,

the same with IRC colors

Enjoy

http://f1lzr.free.fr/zip/ircColors.rar

[Sergey Tkachenko]

http://www.trichview.com/support/files/chatcodes2.zip is updated, see the first post in this topic.

[aussie]

dear sergey is there any way to view youtube video in this chat windows when someone put the link ? if yes could you make a sample ? tx

[Sergey Tkachenko]

Sorry, I never worked with youtube video.
If you know a control that can play youtube video, you can insert it in TRichView.

I believe you can use Flash ActiveX, loading Chromeless Player in it. (apiplayer.SWF): http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_player_reference.html#Overview

[adrennan]

This demo breaks with Delphi 2009. Specifically it looks like the AddStringWithURLs is doing math as 1 byte characters.

[Sergey Tkachenko]

Sorry for late answer, but I cannot reproduce problems with Delphi 2009.