Allow us to fire the Player.Chatted event manually

Xan_TheDragon · December 20, 2016, 2:35pm

I’ve been designing chats for a bit of time now, and I’ve just decided I’d release one as a free model (Or, work on one for that matter) There’s one problem, however: I don’t want to use the built in roblox chat bar, and I want to have compatibility to scripts that listen to Player.Chatted

So what do I propose? Create a Function on the Player class to fire the chat event.
function Player:Chat(string Message, Player recipient)
This method will simply fire the .Chatted event of the Player.

Feedback?

einsteinK · December 20, 2016, 3:02pm

Already possible, check out the new chat system.

Xan_TheDragon · December 20, 2016, 3:32pm

Can you direct me to where that is, please? (i.e. lua file, general lines it’s at)

einsteinK · December 20, 2016, 4:17pm

github.com

ROBLOX/Core-Scripts/blob/cebaafdeec0e2c26e989c83e895e5b6e62f8dc72/CoreScriptsRoot/Modules/Server/ClientChat/ChatMain.lua#L600


			if messageSunk then
				return
			end
		end


		message = string.sub(message, 1, ChatSettings.MaximumMessageLength)


		ChatBar:GetTextBox().Text = ""


		if message ~= "" then
			--// Sends signal to eventually call Player:Chat() to handle C++ side legacy stuff.
			moduleApiTable.MessagePosted:fire(message)


			if not CommandProcessor:ProcessCompletedChatMessage(message, ChatWindow) then
				if ChatSettings.DisallowedWhiteSpace then
					for i = 1, #ChatSettings.DisallowedWhiteSpace do
						message = string.gsub(message, ChatSettings.DisallowedWhiteSpace[i], "")
					end
				end
				message = string.gsub(message, "\n", "")
				message = string.gsub(message, "[ ]+", " ")

Xan_TheDragon · December 20, 2016, 5:30pm

Thanks. Unfortunately I’m getting some issues, the Chatted event isn’t firing. Here’s my LocalScript:

local ChatMain = game:GetService("Chat"):WaitForChild("ChatScript"):WaitForChild("ChatMain")
local moduleApiTable = require(ChatMain)
local MessageSender = require(ChatMain:WaitForChild("MessageSender"))

wait(2)
moduleApiTable.MessagePosted:fire("asdfg")
MessageSender:SendMessage("asdfg", "All")

And here’s the Server script:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (p)
	p.Chatted:Connect(function (m)
		print(m)
	end)
end)

After the LocalScript runs, I don’t get anything in the output.

Edit: I do get a chat in the default chat GUI.

As8D · December 20, 2016, 5:37pm

The new chat system is copied to your PlayerScripts inside the player. So you want to require it from

game.Players.[PlayerName].PlayerScripts.ChatScript.ChatMain

That being said, if you don’t want to use those, you can just supply a table to ROBLOX’s end using the new SetCore option, like so:

game:GetService("StarterGui"):SetCore("CoreGuiChatConnections", {ChatWindow = {MessagePosted = BindableEvent}})

where the BindableEvent is what you’ll use to simulate the Chatted event.

Veldaren · December 20, 2016, 11:56pm

Did someone say fire?

BRING WATER! QUICK!

sorry, I couldn’t resist

btw, if you can see, I have a firefighter mask on so I can help xd

Dekkonot · December 21, 2016, 4:17am

Don’t mean to be a bother, but I’m still not able to get it to work (completely different user, hi). When I do it via requiring ChatMain and attempting to fire MessagePosted, it doesn’t fire Chatted, and I don’t actually know how to do it directly via SetCore. Help?

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out.

system · October 25, 2022, 8:30pm

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