Chat message sending assistance

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#1

hello fellow robloxians
i am struggling a lot to send a message ive looked for tutorials but they are outdated and dont work , tried the assistant and same outdated scripts, looked through docs but found nothing useful and ive scouted through the forum and this is the best i could find

game.TextChatService:WaitForChild("TextChannels").RBXSystem:DisplaySystemMessage("test")

the local script is running on starter player scripts but it wont send any message and the script wont throw any errors, help wanted1!1!

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#2

Doesn’t it need on the server sss

#3

Your code is fine. The new chat system just takes a moment to initialize. Use task.wait to wait for ~1 second before sending the message. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to understand when the service is properly ready

#4

replying to SubToParcIeDev_onyt:
the function DisplaSystemMessage only runs client-sided only so it wouldnt work on a server script
replying to Ziffix:
my code wasnt fine but i added wait and it worked just fine like this

wait(2)
game.TextChatService.TextChannels.RBXGeneral:DisplaySystemMessage("test")
-- feel free to use the script :p
#5

Wouldn’t that make my answer the solution? Slide the credit, man :joy:

#6

as i said, your answer wasnt completly the solution, i had to remove wait for child if you noticed but sure lol

#7

WaitForChild has no affect on the problem

#8

well for me it only worked after i removed it : /

#9

Try adding it back :person_shrugging:

I used WaitForChild in my test before first responding to your problem. It’s generally a good practice to use that function on the client

#10

your right i tought i added it in server but that script actualy sended a remote event to the local script

i used it like this

local TCS = game:GetService("TextChatService")

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Masage, channel)
	local textChannel

	if channel == "Private" then
		textChannel = TCS:WaitForChild("TextChannels"):WaitForChild("Private"..player.UserId)
	elseif channel == "General" then
		textChannel = TCS:WaitForChild("TextChannels"):WaitForChild("RBXGeneral")

	end
	textChannel:DisplaySystemMessage(Masage)

end)

-- also on the server 	
local TCS = game:GetService("TextChatService")

local remote = 

local plr = game:GetService("Players")

plr.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player: Player) 
	task.wait(2)
	local privateChannel = Instance.new("TextChannel")
	privateChannel.Name = "Private"..player.UserId
	privateChannel.Parent = TCS:FindFirstChild("TextChannels")	

        remote:FireAllClients('<font color="#55ff00">'..player.Name..' have joined the game </font>',"General")
end)

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#11

i could elaborate further why in this scenario its better not to use it but i will give you two words: saves memory

#12

Two words: entirely negligible.

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