how would I diplay small emoticons in a wxTreeCtrl item???

zlly20 · Post by **zlly20** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:03 am

just like msn messenger contact list that, each item in the list is your contact whose personalized name may contains emoticons such as

how would I achieve this using wxTreeCtrl???

benedicte · Post by **benedicte** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:04 am

Build an image list (wxTreeCtrl::AssignImageList), and call wxTreeCtrl::SetItemImage on the item with the index of the image to use.

zlly20 · Post by **zlly20** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:01 am

I think you misunderstand what I meant and sorry for the ambiguity..

what I meant is that encode the emoticons or smiley in to the name of your contact.

how to upload an image in this forum, a screenshot could explain better...

benedicte · Post by **benedicte** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:08 pm

are you saying something like:

contact

name

???

so that the emoticon appears inside the name, and not as the tree image?

zlly20 · Post by **zlly20** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:08 am

yes.... you got it now....

Cursor · Post by **Cursor** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:17 am

You cant do it directly, you calculate imoticon place in the wxTreeCtrl and manually place corresponding wxStaticImage (or other) on it.

zlly20 · Post by **zlly20** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:52 am

"manually place corresponding wxStaticImage (or other) on it"

Could you explain how exactly would I do this??? and what do you mean by "manually place" ???

Thanks

Cursor · Post by **Cursor** » Mon May 29, 2006 10:06 am

You can use wxStaticBitmap as treectrl child to show the imoticon, you just have to place it.

You can retrieve the text coordinates of an item with wxTreeCtrl::GetBoundingRect [1].
You can calculate position of you imoticon in your text with wxDC::GetTextExtent [2] (you can set the item font to the wxDC with wxTreeCtrl::GetItemFont [3]).

[1] : http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.3/ ... etitemrect
[2] : http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.3/ ... textextent
[3] : http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.3/ ... etitemfont

zlly20 · Post by **zlly20** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:19 pm

thanks, I will try that....