How to get Popup on clicking a JButton

[Shamim Patel]

Hi......

I have created a chat application. I want to add the feature of smiley... That is when I click on smiley button it should display a list of smileys just as we see in yahoo chat. Now user can select any smiley from it and display in textarea.

So my question is..

1) how can i get popup on click of Button?
2) Can I display smileys (i.e .gif ) in my TextArea (in Frame). If yes then how.
3) Can I use different font for different lines in same TextArea (TextArea is in Frame).

Thanx in advance...

Regards,
Shamim Patel.

[bagaudin]

1. Use JMenuBar, for example:
ImageIcon image1 = new ImageIcon("D:/smiles/ab.gif");
ImageIcon image2 = new ImageIcon("D:/smiles/ac.gif");
jMenu1.setText("Smiles");
jMenuItem1.setIcon(image1);
jMenuItem2.setIcon(image2);
jMenuBar1.add(jMenu1);
jMenu1.add(jMenuItem1);
jMenu1.add(jMenuItem2);
this.getContentPane().add(jMenuBar1);
2. Use JTextPane and you can insert image with follow code:
jTextPane1.insertIcon(image1)
3. Use Style, StyleConstats and StyledDocument for change text styles