Can chat text be hidden from view.. with triggers?

I want to make it so if a player enters text into the chat box, it wont show to anyone ^_^. How can i do this? :)

Event: Player types a message conaining "empty set" (nothing)
Action: Cinematic- clear text messages

that'll do it

LOL dude u are dreaming. Clear text messages DO NOT clear chat messages. I would LOVE to find a way to do this but unfortunately have not.

Have fun!

Sadly, this is possible.

There is some function in the Cinematic Mode function usage that clears all chat messages :/. To my great dismay, as it can be bad when doing local cutscenes in a multiplayer map.

I don't remember what it was exactly, but DaKaN had investigated this, and... i think it was this function-call:

So you should be able to take all chat messages by resetting the Interface by taking it off and back on instantly (note, don't use the GUI function, as it does a whole lot more than calling this function).

Cubasis

I'm sorry Cubasis, I don't really understand much JASS. Can this be done via the GUI interface at all? I already have a trigger setup to display text that i want removed, i just wanted to add an action to that trigger to remove the text or just make it invis.. or keep it from being displayed.

Ahhhhhh, that's .... a interesting idea you just gave me :o

Anyways, no, that function is "not" in the GUI environment. Though you can CnP that into a "Custom Script" (a GUI action near the top of the list). Note, for the test to work properly you need to do two actions.
one with:
call ShowInterface(false, 0)
And then another one with:
call ShowInterface(true, 0)

EDIT: Removed silly idea, read bottom-"EDIT"

Cubasis

EDIT: Erhm o_O, what ...really....do you want to do? :/, display text to one player, not all?, cause... there is a simple function to do just that. It's in UMSWE.

If you do indeed write a trigger to make invis. chat text, please post it! Would most likely be of some use to a few people :)

Alteling aliances should do tlick as well... dunno if will wolk fol youl map though.

Eh,

I edited my post to late... but... i'm not creating this function, cause it's not needed.... please, again, tell me, what are you trying to do?!?

Cause there already "is" a function in jass that displays timed text to "player". And UMSWE has that action in the GUI.

So....

Cubasis

Cubber all he wants is to clear PLAYER TYPED chat. So a player hits chat and BOOM it is erased.

After a little testing I have a simple solution that works. Basically in a multiplayer game, since there are no observers, you can use "chat to observers", then type in the substring followed by the text i want to display, and no one will see the entered chat string, only the processed game text. Since the only people with access to this feature will be me and a couple friends, its not really an issue. Was just a gag feature anyways. Thanks for all the posts though :)