I am trying to create chat application that support smylies,and since I am using textctrl to show text messages from users ,I want find a way to add smylies icons along with text just like any known chat application such as yahoo messanger or nimbuzz.. and if it is not possible with textctrl ,so what is the alternative .I am using wxpython for python 2.7 on windows 8.1 .please help
Have a look at wxRichTextCtrl.