How do I use PlayerChatType?

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#1

Hello!

Currently I am working on a custom bubble chat system for a project, as the normal bubble chat does not work with the game’s characters.

I have set up a player.Chatted function to see when the player chats, but I don’t want the function to fire if the PlayerChatType is 2 (a whisper chat), as I want whispers to be private.

The problem is simply that I don’t know how the PlayerChatType works, and was wondering if anybody could explain how to use it.

I’ve tried looking up how to detect if a message is a whisper or not, but I had no luck.
I found what it can do, I just don’t understand how to use it.

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This is just the test code right now. I want it to print the message if it’s a public message, but I don’t want it to if it’s a private message.
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(The script is global, and “player” is simply just the person who has the script in their character.)

#2

This post will help you: How to detect whispers (using chatted)

#3

I haven’t worked much with chat systems and I couldn’t find a way to use PlayerChatType as the second recipient argument always returns nil. You could counter this by checking the first argument chatted. Whenever a player is chatting through a whisper, it sets /w at the beginning or as a team, it sets /t at the beginning.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
		if (string.match(Message, '^/w')) then
			print('Whisper Detected')
		elseif (string.match(Message, '^/t')) then
			print('Team Detected')
		else
			print('Global Detected')
		end
	end)
end)

Hence this could flag any message at the beginning with either /w or /t as a whispered message or team message.

#4

I thought about that too, but the problem with it is that it only does it when you start a whisper conversation, from there it just counts them as normal messages.
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