Honestly, very simple question: how do I use it the built-in text filtering? I don’t quite know how it should be used and a search of the internet didn’t prove to be too useful, unless I blatantly missed something on accident. What I’m trying to achieve is setting a TextLabel to some text that the player will include in the command, but I need it to filter first. How can I do this?
Here’s the code I would use it on, if that helps you at all:
From there, the key is probably to use: TextService:FilterStringAsync(message, fromPlayerId) -> TextFilterResult
to get a filtered text object and then textObject:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync() -> string
to get the string to display for anyone
Both require pcall
Here’s an example copied from that documentation (the page has more detail and warnings)
local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local sign = workspace.Sign
local signTop = sign.Top
local signSurfaceGui = signTop.SurfaceGui
local signLabel = signSurfaceGui.SignLabel
local setSignText = ReplicatedStorage.SetSignText
local function getTextObject(message, fromPlayerId)
local textObject
local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
textObject = TextService:FilterStringAsync(message, fromPlayerId)
end)
if success then
return textObject
end
print("Error generating TextFilterResult: ", errorMessage)
return false
end
local function getFilteredMessage(textObject)
local filteredMessage
local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
filteredMessage = textObject:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
end)
if success then
return filteredMessage
end
print("Error filtering message: ", errorMessage)
return false
end
-- Fired when client sends a request to write on the sign
local function onSetSignText(player, text)
if text ~= "" then
-- Filter the incoming message and send the filtered message
local messageObject = getTextObject(text, player.UserId)
local filteredText = ""
filteredText = getFilteredMessage(messageObject)
signLabel.Text = filteredText
end
end
setSignText.OnServerEvent:Connect(onSetSignText)
I’m aware of this solution, but I was just wondering if BAE had a built-in function for that, kind of like how there’s a a built in function for finding players from an argument from the command (findPlayers()). Would you know anything about this?
Ah, sorry! I totally misunderstood that, for some reason I read that as you were developing a text filtering system for that and unfortunately I don’t know much about BAE so I won’t be too helpful.
local cleanData = Data[1][8] -- cleanData(Sender,Receiver,Data)
-- Practical example, for a gui specifically for a player, from another player
-- cleanData(Sender,Receiver,"hi") -- You need receiver because it's being sent to everyone
-- Or for a broadcast (something everyone sees, from one person, to nobody specific)
-- cleanData(Sender,nil,"hi") -- Receiver is nil because it is a broadcast
I kindly request that you read the comments on the code that’s already attached to the default Basic Admin plugins; they provide a brief explanation and provide some insight on what they do. Let me know if you have additional questions, and I’ll do my best to assist you further.
I did see this in the script, but I still can’t seem to figure out how to use it correctly in the context I described above in my original post. Would you be able to help with that? Thanks!
Sure, let me try to describe it in an understandable way.
-- cleanData(Sender,nil,"hi") -- Receiver is nil because it is a broadcast
--Sender would be the player executing in this context
So, you’d end up doing the first two arguments and then the string that needs to be treated as a broadcast in this context—you should be all set to go after that.
