Custom Chat firing the .Chatted event

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#1

Hello! I am working on a custom chat gui right now and I wanted to know if theres any way of firing the .chatted function when a player chats. I know I can just read the input when the player sends a message but I want to use admin and I believe that relys on the .chatted function. So is there any way I can trigger the .chatted event by using a custom chat module or do I have to create my own admin? Any help is appreciated

#2

The newer chat system, which has a ton more features including the ones you need.

#3

But how would I actually use that to fire the .chatted event?

#4

You could create a new speaker or you could retrieve an existing one and fire this event.

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#5

The documentation tells you exactly how the .Chatted event is fired

Unless you’re referring to Player.Chatted?

#6

Yes, I am reffering to the player.Chatted event

#7

This seems to be handled by ChatMain modulescript of Roblox’s chat.

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

the moduleApiTable is later connected to C++ side using CoreGuiChatConnections SetCore

I don’t recommend doing that, but if you still want to then the solutions are below.

You can either:

  • require the ChatMain module and fire the internal event
local message = "Test"
require(game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerScripts.ChatScript.ChatMain).MessagePosted:fire(message)

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  • replace Roblox’s chat bridge (NOTE: This solution completely breaks Roblox’s chat - it gets hidden and is no longer usable)
local chatEvent = Instance.new("BindableEvent")

game.StarterGui:SetCore("CoreGuiChatConnections", {ChatWindow = {MessagePosted = chatEvent}})
-- Line above may error. Make sure to use pcall when using it and retry

chatEvent:Fire("Test")
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Plr.Chatted is confusing