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

This ListPanel might be a useful, as the DefaultListCellRenderer can display an Icon.

Icon icon = UIManager.getIcon("html.pendingImage");
...
@Override
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object
    value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
    JLabel label =  (JLabel) super.getListCellRendererComponent(
        list, value, index, isSelected, cellHasFocus);
    label.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(N, N, N, N));
    label.setIcon(icon);
    label.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.CENTER);
    label.setVerticalTextPosition(JLabel.BOTTOM);
    return label;
}