How to implement the display and edit for some custom icons such as ":)", ":("?

I want to implement the input and display for some custom icons such as ":)", ":(", "@name", etc by UITextField. Maybe I can hook up the action of valueChanged for the text field to a method which scans the text. But how can I put a imageView in 开发者_StackOverflow中文版UITextField? Even if the icon is set as a subview of UITextField, how can I edit this icon(shift or remove)?

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You could replace the :) with an emoji smile: http://pukupi.com/post/1964

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Like this?

  NSString *emo;
  UIImage *smile;
  if ( [emo compare:@":)" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch] == NSOrderedSame )
    smile = [UIImage imageNamed:@"smile.png"];