Three ways:

1) Get fancy on keeping each line as a separate text sprite and do the 
scrolling yourself.  You'll have to spend a lot of time keeping it all 
coordinated.

2) Convert the text and graphic to a bitmap and display THAT - note this is 
only for display, you'd have to keep track of the text separately if you 
wanted to edit it.

3) SUGGESTED: See if you can find a font that has the emoticons (like 
wingdings or webdings or zapf dingbats), and just switch fonts midstream to 
an emoticon font, then back again.

Although all are doable, I think the last would be easiest.

- Tab

At 09:04 PM 5/10/02 +0100, Jayp wrote:
>Hi people, im writing this in antispation for a future project.
>Im thinking of making a chatroom for my website and was wondering is it
>possinle to add little EMOTION graphics to a text line like msn
>messenger does. The graphic would have to move with the line as the
>texct box is scrolled...
>
>Is this possible
>Any ideas???
>
>Thanx
>Jayp

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