Images on JText pane............

Question

Hi,
In my (irc) software I want to add EMOTIONS those in MSN messenger.
Im using the JTextPane for writing and displaying the messages. As the JTextPane supports the pictures and components.
Now the problem im facing is.
On hitting the enter key the pane containing the text and emotion icons should be copied to the above pane. For this ive not found any method doing this thing.
The user types some text containing some text and Pictures. Now I want to search the pictures in the whole text and put the special characters in place of them as (:) for smiling face) so that I could send this thing to the server as a string.
On return from the server I do the same.Remember every thing is passing as a string between server and client.
Any help will be highly appreciated
Java adducted

Answer 1

Hello,
sasivarnan gives a good reply.
if you don't use HTML (and only if you don' use it) try:
javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet attr = new javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet()
javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.setIcon(attr,new javax.swing.ImageIcon(fileNameOfImage));
yourJTextPane.getStyledDocument().insertString( offset, " ", attr);or
yourJTextPane.insertIcon(...)