Chat Client emoticons window JAVA

Question

I\'ve been working on creating a chat client(java swing) and I\'ve just made my emoticons fully useable but other than having users type \":)\" for example, I want to provid

Answer 1

I suppose you mean a chat window like this sort. In that case, you'll need to learn how to layer components over one another, in this case a jPanel, or a jLayeredPane nested inside the main jFrame.