Detect if chat is opened or not

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#1

How do I detect if the Chat button in the top bar is checked or not?

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#2

I believe what you’d want is StarterGui:SetCore’s function? You can set the first parameter as CoreGuiChatConnections, and the second parameter would be a table of BindableEvents/Functions for the Chat to detect:

#3

You can do this using StarterGui | Roblox Creator Documentation. An example of this might be:

local StarterGui = game:GetService("StarterGui")

local Enabled = StarterGui:GetCoreGuiEnabled("Chat")

if Enabled then
    print("Enabled")
else
    print("Disabled")
end
#5

I’ve got it:

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    if StarterGui:GetCoreGuiEnabled("ChatActive") then
        -- Chat icon is activated
    else
        -- Chat icon isn't activated
    end
end)
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#6

LocalScript inside StarterGui or PlayerScripts

Code:
local Chat = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui:WaitForChild(“Chat”)
local ChatFrame = Chat:WaitForChild(“Frame”)

local ChatIsOpen = ChatFrame.Visible

ChatFrame.Changed:Connect(function(Property)
if Property == “Visible” then
ChatIsOpen = ChatFrame.Visible
end
end)

#7

This is more reliable

local ChatActive
local ChatTextBox = LclPlr.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Chat"):WaitForChild("Frame"):WaitForChild("ChatBarParentFrame"):WaitForChild("Frame"):WaitForChild("BoxFrame"):WaitForChild("Frame"):WaitForChild("TextLabel")
local function UpdateChatActive()ChatActive = not ChatTextBox.Visible end
UpdateChatActive()
ChatTextBox:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Visible"):Connect(UpdateChatActive)
#8

it’s StarterGui:GetCore("ChatActive"), not StarterGui:GetCoreGuiEnabled("ChatActive")

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#9

Anyone checking deprecation notices should know that, why are you bunping an outdated code question?

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#10

I don’t know what you’re saying is deprecated. GetCoreGuiEnabled never worked the way you describe, it only ever accepted an Enum. The string you provided is one out of a list of strings which are designed to work with GetCore.

Tell me where else you can check for this condition. As far as I know, this is not an outdated topic, and is as relevant now as it was when it was posted.