Focus to custom chat on keyboard button press

[Kanuin111 (Kanuin111MAGYAR)]

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
   I want to make a custom chat system.

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
   I want the player to focus the textbox (that is connected to textchatservice) when he presses a keyboard button

3. What solutions have you tried so far?
   This is my current script but I can’t force the player to focus on a textbox reserved to textchatservice.

game.TextChatService.ChatInputBarConfiguration.TextBox = script.Parent

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == TextChatSerice.ChatInputBarConfiguration.KeyboardKeyCode then
		script.Parent:CaptureFocus()
	end
end)

Another question:
How do I detect if the player has the chat bar opened? By opened I mean this

[Zer0Wit (zerod)]

I have something like this for a command bar, I believe it’s a property on the textbox

[Reditect]

@Kanuin111

How do I detect if the player has the chat bar opened?

I think it’s this: ChatInputBarConfiguration | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub.

Here’s code for it:

local TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")

if TextChatService.ChatInputBarConfiguration.IsFocused then
	print("player is focused on the chat bar")
end

Note that:

• TextChatService.ChatInputBarConfiguration.IsFocused is ReadOnly & is a Bool. This means you can’t set it yourself and use it as a comparison, like the above code.
• This is a local script
• Roblox also provides a code example in the docs using the ChangedSignal function, which might better suit another use case.

[Kanuin111 (Kanuin111MAGYAR)]

That’s not what I meant by opened. I want to check if the chat is open, not focused.

Open:

Closed:

[Reditect]

Ah, then I think this might be it:

local a = game:GetService("StarterGui"):GetCore("ChatActive")

StarterGui | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub:

it return a boolean