Chat with speech balloons

[Sergey Tkachenko]

A new demo is included in TRichView 17.2.

It is in <TRichView Dir>\TRichView\Demos\Assorted\CustomDraw\Callouts\
This demo uses a custom drawing event to draw speech balloons. Each message is a table having 1 row and 2 columns.

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Avatars are "shared images" - only one copy of each avatar is created.
(Of course, this is not a real chat application; this demo just shows visual possibilities)

Other chat-related demo projects:
https://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=63 (chat codes, URLS)
https://www.trichview.com/forums/viewto ... f=3&t=3160 (contact list)

[Sergey Tkachenko]

And here is a modified version of this demo:

callouts-ex.zip

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It draws speech bubbles around the message text.

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Unlike the original project, this demo uses some undocumented methods.