Deleting a specific message from chat using the new textchatservice

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#1

I’m making some sort of tournament game. I want to integrate a lot of the UI/UX stuff into ROBLOX’s existing core UI. One of the things I want to do is display game state messages (i.e. game is entering intermission, is starting a tournament, etc) in the chat. Currently, I know how I can send system messages to the chat but I also want to avoid spamming the chat with system messages, so ideally I would like to delete previous system messages whenever a new one is posted.

I did something like this for the previous chat system but it was heinously ugly if I recall correctly and I don’t think I have access to the code anymore unfortunately.

I’ve looked over the API and haven’t found any existing methods for doing what I want so I assume I have to make it myself. What is the best way of going about doing this? All I need is a function that either finds the previous system message in chat and removes it or can remove any message from chat given the message’s content.

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#2

Dont use TextChatService for this instead use Player.Chatted.

It would look something like this:

local PlayerService : Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onPlayerAdded(player : Player) -- player handler
	local function onChatted(message : string) -- chat handler
		
	end

	player.Chatted:Connect(onChatted)
end

for _, player in pairs(PlayerService:GetPlayers()) do onPlayerAdded(player) end
PlayerService.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
#3

This doesn’t bring me any closer to my goal. One, the messages I’m sending are from system, not a player, and thus don’t trigger the Chatted event and second, I don’t know how to continue towards my goal of removing a specific message in chat from the code given.

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#4

Has anyone got any solutions to this?

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#5

In the default UI, once a chat message is rendered to the chat window, if won’t be retroactively updated.

The only solution available now is you could consider making your own UI to support this behavior

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#6

Not sure if this helps but, this is what I have written to at least “hide” a message received on the client.

local Cmds:{string} = {}

        TCS.OnIncomingMessage = function(Msg:TextChatMessage)
            if table.find(Cmds,Msg.Text:lower()) then
                local Properties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
                Properties.Text = " "

                return Properties
            end
            
        end

Works in studio at least, haven’t tested in live yet.

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#7

Like the only solution, three months ago (in January) when this topic was recent, he could use tables to store the messages that arrive, it would be a little less optimized but it would work.

#8

This is annoying because I have to override the OnIncomingMessage callback, which is invasive if my module is designed for the developer to plop into an experience