Chat Regulation

11-24-2006, 05:37 PM	#1
Maegus	Is there a way to regulate chat between players in a game? Like controlling who receives whose messages? And possibly making a person's messages only be received by the owners of heroes that are near that person's hero? I thought about trying to do a floating text chat system, but I would still want to remove the normal chat text that appears.

11-24-2006, 05:46 PM	#2
TaintedReality	Whenever someone enters a text message, store it to a string variable, then use this function: Trigger: Cinematic - Clear the screen of text messages for (All players) Then you can either use floating text, or you can use the Game - Display Text function to show it to the people you want.

11-24-2006, 05:51 PM	#3
Maegus	But, the only chat message event I have in the GUI is Player types a message containg X as an exact match or substring. Is there a JASS function I can use? If so... I wouldn't know how to use it. ><

11-24-2006, 05:55 PM	#4
Fireeye	use a "empty" substring, will work for every chat massage

11-24-2006, 08:53 PM

The_AwaKening

Would look like this in JASS

JASS:

function ChatFilter takes nothing returns boolean
    return IsUnitType(GetFilterUnit(),UNIT_TYPE_HERO)
endfunction

function Chat_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
 local group g = CreateGroup()
 local boolexpr bx = Condition(function ChatFilter)
 local unit u
 local string s = SubString(GetEventPlayerChatString(),0,200)
    call ClearTextMessages()
    call GroupEnumUnitsOfPlayer(g,GetTriggerPlayer(),bx)
    set u = FirstOfGroup(g)
    call GroupClear(g)
    call GroupEnumUnitsInRange(g,GetUnitX(u),GetUnitY(u),200)    // change 200 to adjust how close the heros would have to be
    loop
        set u=FirstOfGroup(g)
        exitwhen u==null
        if GetOwningPlayer(u)!=GetTriggerPlayer() then
            call DisplayTextToPlayer(GetOwningPlayer(u),0,0,s)
        endif
        call GroupRemoveUnit(g,u)
    endloop
    call DestroyGroup(g)
    call DestroyBoolExpr(bx)
 set g=null
 set bx=null
endfunction

function InitTrig_Chat takes nothing returns nothing
 local integer i=0
    set gg_trg_Chat = CreateTrigger(  )
    loop
        exitwhen i>11
        call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent( gg_trg_Chat, Player(i), "", false )
        set i=i+1
    endloop
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Chat, function Chat_Actions )
endfunction

This is assuming only 1 hero per player in your game; otherwise, you would need to make sure to display only once.

11-24-2006, 09:18 PM

shadow1500

Quote:

Originally Posted by TaintedReality

Whenever someone enters a text message, store it to a string variable, then use this function:

Trigger:

Cinematic - Clear the screen of text messages for (All players)

That function does not clear the player messages. Use this instead.