New Beta In-Experience Chat System for Channels, Filtering and More!

ValiantWind · April 18, 2022, 7:38pm

Is the documentation almost done? I’m really eager to try out the new API

WestJordan08 · April 19, 2022, 2:06pm

I don’t see the enable TextChatService button in the Beta features menu. Is it a region thing?

spydercam500 · April 20, 2022, 2:38am

Ive been noticing a pretty annoying bug that needs to be fixed.

So when disabling the chat through a script I use

TextChatService:FindFirstChildOfClass("ChatWindowConfiguration").Enabled = false

TextChatService:FindFirstChildOfClass("ChatInputBarConfiguration").Enabled = false

But for some weird reason its giving me a error that says attempt to index nil with enabled on the exact line where turning chat off starts!

And ive tried using game:WaitForChild("TextChatService") but nothing works!

If this could be fixed it would help greatly in the future!

commitblue · April 20, 2022, 12:29pm

getservice

AlureonTime · April 20, 2022, 4:10pm

As long as y’all add customizability for setting the chatboxes transparency from 0-1, I’m happy with the new chat service.

spydercam500 · April 20, 2022, 11:10pm

Same exact thing happens. 30

JamminRedPandaMan · April 21, 2022, 5:41pm

Make sure stuff is loaded before running this code maybe?

spydercam500 · April 21, 2022, 10:46pm

The script is a loading script and its in starter player scripts. And also ive tried wait for child and nothing changed

lordanpacioioiu · April 23, 2022, 7:04pm

what???

DanTDM_Rocks999 · April 23, 2022, 7:17pm

Are you in game? This is a beta feature and only enabled in studio.

Wolf1te · April 24, 2022, 12:32am

This is definitely cool. I played around with it for 3-4 hours. However, it is pretty buggy.

Text chat service randomly turns off and deletes all instances within it.
Sometimes when you chat it does not work (rare).
It does not appear when actually in the game (so far).

Also, it would be great if (when TextChatService) is enabled, the other chat functions work with TextChatService.

forest_walker · April 24, 2022, 10:47am

is there going to be a way to customize the look
like making it look like the current roblox chat, the old one, and having a custom one?

(just skins, not actual old chat)

BandaidKidd · April 24, 2022, 12:14pm

This is a pretty good idea but, they probably won’t add this.

lordanpacioioiu · April 25, 2022, 11:55am

Will it look like this if you do the free camera mode?

lechugaosu · April 25, 2022, 11:53pm

Is it intentional for this to use usernames and not display names? I currently need to use this workaround:

local TextChatService = game:GetService('TextChatService')
local Players = game:GetService('Players')
local LocalizationService = game:GetService('LocalizationService')

local ColorModule = require(script.ColorModule)

if TextChatService.ChatVersion == Enum.ChatVersion.TextChatService then
	TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage = function(message: TextChatMessage)
		if message.TextSource then
			local plr: Player = Players:GetPlayerByUserId(message.TextSource.UserId)
			local translator: Translator = LocalizationService:GetTranslatorForPlayerAsync(Players.LocalPlayer)
			
			local prefix = '<font color="#' .. ColorModule.GetPrefixColor(plr) .. '">' .. translator:FormatByKey('PrefixDeveloper') .. '</font>'
			message.PrefixText = prefix .. ' <font color="#' .. ColorModule.GetNameColor(plr) .. '">' .. plr.DisplayName .. '</font>'
		end
	end	
else 
	warn('TextChatService.ChatVersion is set to "LegacyChatService".')
end

be_nj · April 26, 2022, 10:41pm

Hello, I’m a little confused. From what I can see on an empty baseplate, the new chat should be using DisplayNames already. Are you seeing something differently?

lechugaosu · April 30, 2022, 1:25am

Last time I checked it (when I replied), it was using usernames in my case. Not sure if this is the case anymore since I haven’t opened Studio. It could also have been since I was setting OnIncomingMessage prefix, still, it’d be better if TextSource had an DisplayName property.

icodedstevejobs · May 5, 2022, 2:51am

Is there any ETA for when this will go live? I’m very excited for this!

be_nj · May 13, 2022, 6:30pm

A summary of TextChatService Beta changes this week:

Rolled out a patch to fix a crash when yielding in an OnIncomingMessage hook (New Beta In-Experience Chat System for Channels, Filtering and More! - #135 by LoveliestJacob)
- We’ve noticed that OnIncomingMessage can also crash if OnIncomingMessage throws and we will be addressing this in a future engine release
The default ChatInputBar UI will now properly respect if a developer manually sets ChatInputBarConfiguration.TargetTextChannel
Fixed an issue where messages were being sent to the wrong TeamChannel if your Team changed while the ChatInputBar was in “team chat mode”
Toggling the chat top bar button will properly respect ChatInputBarConfiguration’s and ChatWindowConfiguration’s Enabled values (New Beta In-Experience Chat System for Channels, Filtering and More! - #152 by StonksMcHat).
TextChatService default UI will now respect StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled (New Beta In-Experience Chat System for Channels, Filtering and More! - #22 by BillB1ox)
TextChatService default UI scaling should behave better on various screen widths (New Beta In-Experience Chat System for Channels, Filtering and More! - #21 by intergravitation)

be_nj · May 13, 2022, 6:33pm

We don’t have a set public date yet (since anything that can go wrong will go wrong). We are merging a patch to address a nasty crash this week which is hopefully the last engine change we’ll need before we can release.

That puts our optimistic timeline to sometime towards the end of June or early July when it’s safe to release outside of Studio.