How to detect when chat box is selected?

[zykobyte (BraNdon)]

I am trying to detect inputs using UserInputService, but I want to ignore some inputs while the player is typing a message in chat or in a text box so that they don’t accidentally trigger something trying to type a message. I can’t find any solutions to this on the DevHub.

[Volieb (Vinny)]

Consider this reply I made a while ago.

The Big Bubble Chat Rework

That is something you can do on your own though. If you use UserInputService.TextBoxFocused and UserInputService.TextBoxFocusReleased, you can detect if they are focused on the chatbox. Here is an example of this through a LocalScript. local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService") UIS.TextBoxFocused:Connect(function(Box) if Box.Name=="ChatBar" then -- Play typing animation end end) UIS.TextBoxFocusReleased:Connect(function(Box) if Box.Name=="ChatBar" then -- Stop typing animation end end)

[Katrist]

--//Services
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

if UserInputService:GetFocusedTextBox() then
	print("Player is in a text box")
else
	print("Player is not in a text box")
end

[Volieb (Vinny)]

This will trigger the event for all TextBoxes, not just the chat bar.

In order to achieve your solution @zykobyte, you must check the name of the TextBox currently being typed in. Consider the link I replied.

[Katrist]

@Volieb

This will trigger the event for all TextBoxes

Mine is what they want, re-read the post.

[Volieb (Vinny)]

Ah I misread, apologies for my confusion.