[Lazarus] Images in SynEdit

[Martin]

On 13/12/2012 17:54, ListMember wrote:
> On 2012-12-13 17:08, Martin wrote:
>> On 13/12/2012 14:58, ListMember wrote:
>>> I am playing around with the XanaNews NNTP client, and I am 
>>> considering using SynEdit as it's text editor.
>>>
>>> While there are other ways of displaying images enclosed with the 
>>> message, it would be nice (easier for me) if SynEdit itself allowed 
>>> displaying these images (at the end).
>>>
>>> I don't need any fancy features such as text flowing around these 
>>> images or anything like that --displaying images at the end would be 
>>> more than good enough.
>>>
>>> Can SynEdit do this?
>>
>> Not by itself.
>>
>> But it has an OnPaint event, that is called after all text is painted.
>> You can not suppress the text, but you can paint over it, or in 
>> addition to it.
>>
>> You need to insert the right amount of spaces, and/or empty lines to 
>> provide the space for your images.
>
> It would be nice (instead of adding multiple lines) if I could somehow 
> specify a line height (which would, obviously, be the height of the 
> image).
>
> Doesn't SynEdit allow for different font sizes --which I would 
> translate to read as different line heights.
All text in SynEdit uses the same font. And all lines have the same height.

You can specify SynEdit.ExtraLineSpacing. That affects *all* lines.