Detecting Chats From a Player Not Working

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#1

I am making a system that requires detecting chats, but every time I try to use one of the many ways, it doesn’t work.

I attempted to use player.Chatted, etc, but that didn’t work, I also attempted to use the code listed below.

game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").DefaultChatSystemChatEvents.OnMessageDoneFiltering.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(messageArray)
    local message = messageArray.Message
    print(message)
end)

I believe it may be because of the new chat system, but even when I disabled it, it won’t go away.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

#2

When you use Player.Chatted it should work perfectly fine for TextChatService and LegacyChatService.

Server-script:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    Player.Chatted:Connect(function(Message, Recipient)
        print(Message)
    end)
end)
#3

I attempted to use that, but it still didn’t work, no errors, no response whatsoever.

#4

local script:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
print(message)
end)
end)

#5

That doesn’t work, attempted to put it in a local & server script but to no avail. I wonder if it has anything to due with it being inside a GUI, but I doubt that would be why.

#6

Can you upload the place file?

#7

Yes I can, I will do that right now

#8

Just to point out; whenever you use Player.Chatted you must use it in a server-script for it to work.

#9

I already displayed that. He said it didn’t work.

#10

radio.rbxl (66.2 KB)

#11

found the solution! its a server script, in workspace it works but not in startergui, the code would be
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
print(message)
end)
end)

#12

I just did some investigating, and it appears to work in scripts stored in ServerScriptService, but not when printed out from a script stored inside a GUI.

I would prefer not to have to move all my scripts outside that GUI, but if I have to I will.

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#13

remember to mark it as solved so people dont go back in this chat!

#14

If you set Script.RunContext to Server the script will be able to run nearly anywhere, including from GUIs. However, it is much better to keep scripts in ServerScriptService than inside of a gui, unless that script is specifically modifying that gui.

#15

If that works for you then you should put it into ServerScriptService.