AutoHotkey Community

1)
I'm interested in making a small chat program, but would like the ability to have emotes, colors, etc in the edit box that shows the chats. Is this possible?

What control? ideally an edit box that just accepts html like code <img src="smiley.gif"> or something like that for the emotes.

Ideally as simple as possible, i'm not looking for it to load actually websites, I just wnat to be able to pass html to it, and it add it to the text that's in there.

2)
How do I make this control automatically scroll to the bottom after I add more text to it? Ideally not using a ctrl-end or anything like that, because the window may not be the active one. (Note i'd like to know this about an edit box if 1 isn't possible, because right now it's kinda annoying)

thanks.

A regular edit box should accept (but not interpret) html code.

If you want to have your edit box delete HTML code that you type and replace it with images/links/bold, etc it will require some fairly complex code.

Not sure if this type of edit box is what you want, but you might want to search the forums for RichEdit (a rich text edit box).