Chat in MP1 (1 Viewer)

[Michael.K]

Hello. I need add chat functional to my plugin. Which control fit me better: ListControl(but message may be differend size), TextBox (but I cant add text to Lable because property "Lable" have only setter and i cant write like textControl.Lable+="SomeText"), Lable(but this is no good and pure idea). I must have scrolling text as well. Help me please if you experienced with this.

 

[Michael.K]

In MP1 no control that is suitable for a chat? I would like to display incoming messages like in the Skype chat. The messages can be long and must be carried, and i must display contact name and time in header of message. It would be nice if GUIListitem stretched the width of the message, well, or was similar to control StackPanel in xaml.

 

[mbuzina]

I think TextBox would fit best. Just Keep a reference to your text like

var myText = "";
var newText = "";
 
while(true) {
  newText=GetNewText();
  myText += LINEBREAK & newText;
  textControl.Label = myText;
}

You would also need to control the displayed part of the Textbox

 

[mbuzina]

Otherwise have a look at the WebBrowsers, you might want to display a generated html representation of the chat...

 

[Michael.K]

Otherwise have a look at the WebBrowsers, you might want to display a generated html representation of the chat...

Thanks for answer about textBox. Can you tell me more about how to display HTML in TextBox? It can display the html? or parsing to be done manually? Or MP have webBrowserControl?

 

[mbuzina]

There are several browser plugins, so I would suggest to look at them (e.g. BrowseTheWeb and some others). They use different html Rendering engines, so you might clone their technique.

 

[Michael.K]

Thank you. You help me.