Hello! So I’m trying to use a custom input textbox for a game, and I want to stick with Roblox’s chat scripts. I configured the ChatInputBarConfiguration.Textbox to my own textbox, and chat works when you click on the textbox and type your message, then click enter.
The problem I’m having is that the hotkey used in chat (default / for US) isn’t being registered to the textbox, and isn’t working. I also attempted to manually check if the hotkey is pressed using UserInputService but I get an error:
Cannot use :CaptureFocus() on a TextBox that is reserved for TextChatService.ChatInputBarConfiguration.
Replication Steps
In an empty or used studio, create a ScreenGui and add a Textbox inside
Create a local script inside of StarterGui and enter the following code (configuring ChatInputBarConfiguration.Textbox for PlayerGui)
Attempt to play the game and chat. You will notice that the slash hotkey to focus the chatbox does not work, but chat works as intended.
The video below demonstrates me attempting to use the slash hotkey. Two things occur, one being that the textbox doesn’t focus as its intended to, and second is that an error occurs when I want to manually detect when a hotkey is pressed and when I manually want to capture focus of the textbox.
A post reply was made by a Roblox staff member regarding this, which led me to believe that it may be a bug:
In summary, using a custom textbox doesn’t allow me to use chat hotkeys including / to type. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong on my end, or if this is a bug.
Specs:
I’m using a 2020 Macbook Pro M1 (with the latest update installed) with the latest version of Roblox Studio installed. If you require any more information regarding my specs, please let me know. Thanks!
This taking so long is frustrating. The only workaround at the moment is to disable the input box and manually make your own script to do the capture on keybind press. You can use ChatInputBarConfiguration.TargetTextChannel:SendAsync() to achieve the same result. That makes it even more frustrating since this workaround should not be needed
@music_man1996 Has any work been actually done on this since the problem was reported? I feel like this is also a bigger issue now that Roblox is making chat regulation changes.
So confused as to why this hasn’t been a priority since they want to ensure that custom chat interfaces can work with TextChatService since LegacyChatService is being removed. I reported this a year ago and even that got a response from staff with 0 action done so far.
The negligence to the TextChatService from engineers is honestly getting ridiculous at this level.
I can understand some recently reported issues, but I can’t understand what’s the problem dealing with the issues that last for year or more.
Will there be something done for once or not? I don’t want to bother using this buggy mess if there are no plans to fix any of its issues. I’m genuinely getting tired of waiting for any response. Might aswell completely disable chat and call it a day once its forced.
This issue still persists to this day, and it’s just really bizarre to me how it hasn’t been fixed, I can’t even use :CaptureFocus() on reserved TextBoxes so I just have to wait until they fix it.
I’m not about to make my own chat input box system just to fix a bug.
Hello everyone. Thank you guys for your patience. This issue was paused for a bit, but I’ll be picking it up again next week and will keep you all updated on progress.
