Im just trying to filter a String. Ive been through like 20 different threads and none of them work. Ive got a custom shout’s in-game. They type the desired message into a GUI and the GUI sends data to the server with the player and their desired message. The server then filters the message and does :FireAllClients() to have the little announcement UI show up. But its not. Somebody help, ive been at it for like 2 hours now.
Edit: Im stupid, and filtered the wrong text.
Could you show the code that handles filtering the announcement text and the client code for showing the announcement UI?
Are there any errors being outputted?
If you’re testing in Studio, Studio won’t filter the message. Otherwise, show us your code that you used to filter the string.
Try using TextService:FilterStringAsync(), keep in mind that it must be called by the server.
local myString = 'some text'
local recipient = 123456 -- recipient's user ID, must be connected to server
local recipientType = 'PublicChat' -- can be PublicChat or PrivateChat
local filteredObject = game:GetService('TextService'):FilterStringAsync(myString, recipient, recipientType)
local filteredText = filteredObject:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync() -- the actual string
Have you tried using the FilterStringForBroadcast method of the Chat service? It takes the text to filter, and the speaker who said the text.
local Speaker = game.Players.Player;
local Text = "Hello World! How are you?";
local FilteredText = game.Chat:FilterStringForBroadcast(Text, Speaker);
print(FilteredText); -- Filtered text outputted