Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite for TextChatService

[Zalthen]

Added on to the README the changes I made, these specifically (for accuracy to Legacy Chat):

--[[
CHANGES MADE
ChatConstants.RemoveTranslationsEnabledMessage added, defaults to false
ChatConstants.UseCustomCommandsColor added, defaults to false
ChatConstants.ChatWindowLayoutOrder added, defaults to 6
ChatConstants.MessageFrameAutomaticSize added, defaults to Enum.AutomaticSize.Y
ChatConstants.MessageLabelAutomaticSize added, defaults to Enum.AutomaticSize.Y

MessageLog.registerMessageAddedCallback shouldn't error when Message.create returns nil
ChatConstants.DefaultChatWindowSizeScale set to (0.4, 0.33) from (0.4, 0.34)
]]

One thing this forgot is that ChatConstants.WindowResizeable defaults to false
And I made a mistake (ChatConstants.RemoveTranslationsEnabledMessage defaults to true), I’ll fix these with a simple update

I also included a command bar loader to save some time, this is the code (minus the comment which has instructions on using it)

local legacyChatRewrite = workspace["Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite"]
local whatGoesInChat = legacyChatRewrite["PUT ME IN CHAT AND UNGROUP"]
local whatGoesInScriptService = legacyChatRewrite["PUT ME IN SERVERSCRIPTSERVICE AND UNGROUP"]

for _, obj in whatGoesInChat:GetChildren() do
	obj:Clone().Parent = game.Chat
end

for _, obj in whatGoesInScriptService:GetChildren() do
	obj:Clone().Parent = game.ServerScriptService
end

[sombolian (Realest)]

what command bar did you add?
???

[KingBlueDash (Dash)]

@Zalthen

local legacyChatRewrite = workspace["Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite"]
local whatGoesInChat = legacyChatRewrite["PUT ME IN CHAT AND UNGROUP"]
local whatGoesInScriptService = legacyChatRewrite["PUT ME IN SERVERSCRIPTSERVICE AND UNGROUP"]

for _, obj in whatGoesInChat:GetChildren() do
	obj:Clone().Parent = game.Chat
end

for _, obj in whatGoesInScriptService:GetChildren() do
	obj:Clone().Parent = game.ServerScriptService
end

the code snippet he provided above is supposed to be ran using command bar, he didn’t add a command bar to the chat.

[Steven_Scripts]

This looks great! Mind if I overwrite the current model with your version?

Edit: Noticed this code snippet here where you were trying to override the system message color. This is unfortunately the correct way to do it; I did not set the system message color, Roblox just adds a RichText tag to all system messages to color them grey.

if not ChatConstants.UseCustomCommandsColor then
	-- hacky workaround
	-- i have no clue where the hell the color is set
	-- all i know is the setting for it is disabled and the color shall not be present
	
	scroller.ChildAdded:Connect(function(message)
		if not message:IsA("Frame") then
			return
		end
		
		local label = message:FindFirstChildOfClass("TextLabel")
		
		if string.find(label.Text, '<font color="#d4d4d4">') then
			local text = string.gsub(label.Text, '<font color="#d4d4d4">', '')
			text = string.gsub(text, '</font>', '', 1)
			
			label.Text = text
		end
	end)
end

Saezi covered this issue in this thread a little bit ago:

Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite for TextChatService

fortunately i’ve actually already dealt with something similar to this. for some reason the text on these system messages is always that light gray color, and i wanted it to be black for my personal modifications to the system. the check i made for it can easily be modified to delete this message instead [image] just replace lines 205-210 of the “Message” script with if sourceText ~= nil then -- Add spacing for source text messageLabel.Text = `<font transparency = "1"><stroke transparenc…

[700000002 (Tenny)]

Did you get one of these?

[Zalthen]

Yeah I get that too. I don’t have any clue if this system does follow parental control settings, so I just ignore it.

[Voidage]

this looks way better than the current chat UI.

does anyone know why roblox is actively downgrading their chat system? They just gave up on it? Less budget?

[SwitchedDreams]

Yo man, first of all let me say THANK YOU!

I’m working on a classic game as well right now, and the sunsetting of LegacyChat really bummed me out. God bless you.

However, I’d like to kindly share with you that when I hover over the chatbox, I experience some major lag, that disappears when I remove my mouse from the box. Is this a known issue?

Here’s what I got in the dev console. I also lag heavily when I used dex, which is the world viewer integrated into the Adonis Admin system, and this only started once I added this

[Steven_Scripts]

Whatever Roblox is using to detect legacy chat was accidentally detecting my system as well. I restructured the LegacyChatLoader script and published a new version so that this shouldn’t happen anymore.

[Steven_Scripts]

I couldn’t get this bug to happen for me. Try making sure you’re using the latest versions of both Adonis and Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite. If it still keeps happening, send me a place file and I can take a look.

[SwitchedDreams]

It’s all good now, I apologize for forgetting to let you know. Turns out it was the cursor replacement script I was using was clashing with the “hovering over chatbox” script.

And right, I’ll update the system anyway considering you updated it avoid that annoying pop-up.

[King_GamingRobloxYT (King)]

I really love this. This is the best thing ever. I hate textchatservice, thank you so much for making this.

[Zalthen]

I’ve updated my version of Basic Legacy Chat Rewrite to feature the new loader along with a few other changes to ChatConstants

Btw @Steven_Scripts , if you want to overwrite your model with my version, then you can do so!

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[cohen30 (Austin)]

It’s buggy when you zoom into the chat you can see the arrow and like a padding between it and it like twitches please fix that with the bubble chats.

[imCherry511 (R_Y)]

can you perhaps add support for emojis autoconversion?

[wasdasfgsdgadfasd (YTZ_WhenThe)]

(likely a necrobump)
if anyone wants to insert this model quickly, copy this line of code and paste it in the command bar:

game:GetObjects('rbxassetid://101435285129030')[1]["-PUT ME IN SERVERSCRIPTSERVICE AND UNGROUP-"].LegacyChatLoader.Parent = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")

[kalmax0328 (LuxoJr)]

you are a legend and i hope your version survives this GOD AWFUL “UPDATE” that’s about to wreck every roblox game.