Enable/Disable Chat

Sorry if someone already figured this out.

I was thinking to myself how you could ignore people in the game, for the game only. I noticed that if you just disabled the chat by changing [All] to a million of spaces it would permantly disable it. (Keep reading)

So I thought of changing the [All] to 4 spaces, [Allies] to 4 spaces, and [Private] to 4 spaces. I store everyone's orignal name in a string variable at the beginning of the game. Then I just have a trigger that when you type -block red, it locally changes his name to a bunch of spaces. It blocks everything he only says, but just creates a gap between the text messages you can see. Without the [All] or [Allies] and the 4 spaces it feels the same, comfortable.

Here are two pictures, one of a normal chat with [All], and one where it doesn't have [All]. This and the gap are the only things that may annoy some, but I don't find them annoying. If you blocked everyone then there wouldn't be the gap problem. I think it looks pretty good without the [All]. Also the name of an ally or enemy unit will not show when you hover their mouse over them, but you blocked them anyway.

Normal: and Blocked Chat:

I unblock myself while my message is hidden.

Most people that would probably want this want the whole thing to be disabled, or the whole thing to be enabled, so I would just change everyone's name in that case; then there would be no chat.

Thanks to PitzerMike with allowing me to edit the [All], with his program GameInterface101.

For the test map the commands are -block and -unblock.

Yep, someone already knows this. Here's a tutorial on it http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=80691.

No there is a difference, during the game mine can enable or disable chat. His you can only just disable it for the whole game or not at all.

Sorry, I didn't read the whole thing slowly enough, I just skimmed it.

very creative. i don't know if this has ever been mentioned before

This is really freaking cool. Innovative thinking on your part = +rep.

yo sick thanks for the rep, think its my first time getting it. I just hope that like Vexorian, Bluedanoob, Pitzermike, Tim, and all of them see this. Would be cool to get some positive replys back from them :P.

Most of the time someone has always figured it out before you, but good job at being the first, and good job on a nice smooth system for this. I just wish I had use for it :P

Could you attach a test map ?

I will later tonight, going snowboarding for almost the whole day.

Try hovering your mouse over a unit owned by the blocked player, or opening the alliances dialog.

You could disable pre-selection if it's that big of a deal.

Attached a test map for anyone who wishes to check it out, I know one person requested it.

Problem:
As pointed out by Alexander244, messing with a player's name will change the popup above units which are not controlled by you in a game. I modded the testmap to block a computer player, and got this result.

If you set the name even longer, it will hide the name. If you don't mind the name not showing, especially since you blocked them or the chat anyway.