Customized Chat Script

[Gunderak]

Basically it will disable the default chat above the players head, and instead it will be placed in a box
if the player has clientr.isStaff added their name will be red.
thanks to mark sir link and cbk1994 for their help with this.
feel free to use it on your server if you want to,
but please do not claim it as your own

Here Is A Screenshot.

PHP Code:

function onActionServerSide(){
if ( params[0] == "AddMessage" ) {
triggerclient("weapon", this.name, "AddMessage2");
}
}
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
ChatBar.width = 600;
ChatBar.alpha = 0.7;
ChatBar.profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
ChatBar.height = 25;
ChatBar.y = 810;
ChatBar.x = 0;
    new GuiScrollCtrl("Chat_Text_Scroll") {
      profile = GuiBlueScrollProfile;
      height = 100;
      hscrollbar = "dynamic";
      vscrollbar = "dynamic";
      width = 600;
      x = 0;
      y = 708;

      new GuiMLTextCtrl("Chat_Text") {
        profile = GuiBlueMLTextProfile;
        height = 68;
        horizsizing = "width";
        text = "Welcome To "@servername@" "@player.nick@"."@"<br>"@"You Can Write /help For Help At Any Time!";
        width = 575;
      }
    }
  }
function onPlayerchats(){
if(player.chat == "/help"){
Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@"<font color=black>"@"If You Get Stuck Anywhere Write ''Unstuck Me''"@"<br>"@"To See The Server News Write /news"@"<font color=white>", false);
return;
}
triggerserver("weapon", this.name, "AddMessage");
}
function onActionClientSide(){
  if ( params[0] == "AddMessage2" ) {
}
if(player.chat.starts("/")){
return;
}
if(player.chat.starts("warpto")){
return;
}
if(player.chat.starts("update")){
return;
}
if(player.chat.starts("unstuck")){
return;
}
if(player.chat.starts("set")){
return;
}
if(clientr.isStaff){
Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@"<font color = red>"@player.nick@": "@"<font color=white>"@player.chat, false);
Chat_Text.scrolltobottom();
return;
}
   Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@player.nick@": "@player.chat, false);  
   Chat_Text.scrolltobottom();
} 


[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

The biggest problem with your script is that it's not formatted consistently.

..

[Gunderak]

Do you care to explain further please?
what can you see wrong with it atm :3?
thanks btw.
its only by people telling me that il be able to fix.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Gunderak

Do you care to explain further please?

It's ugly/unreadable. Make sure your scripts look like this or similar so they are easily readable by yourself later and by other coders:

PHP Code:

function onActionServerSide() {
  if (params[0] == "AddMessage") {
    triggerclient("weapon", this.name, "AddMessage2");
  }
}

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  ChatBar.width = 600;
  ChatBar.alpha = 0.7;
  ChatBar.profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
  ChatBar.height = 25;
  ChatBar.y = 810;
  ChatBar.x = 0;
  new GuiScrollCtrl("Chat_Text_Scroll") {
    profile = GuiBlueScrollProfile;
    height = 100;
    hscrollbar = "dynamic";
    vscrollbar = "dynamic";
    width = 600;
    x = 0;
    y = 708;
    new GuiMLTextCtrl("Chat_Text") {
      profile = GuiBlueMLTextProfile;
      height = 68;
      horizsizing = "width";
      text = "Welcome To "@servername@" "@player.nick@"."@"<br>"@"You Can Write /help For Help At Any Time!";
      width = 575;
    }
  }
}

function onPlayerchats() {
  if (player.chat == "/help") {
    Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@"<font color=black>"@"If You Get Stuck Anywhere Write ''Unstuck Me''"@"<br>"@"To See The Server News Write /news"@"<font color=white>", false);
    return;
  }
  triggerserver("weapon", this.name, "AddMessage");
}

function onActionClientSide() {
  if (params[0] == "AddMessage2") {}
  if (player.chat.starts("/")) {
    return;
  }
  if (player.chat.starts("warpto")) {
    return;
  }
  if (player.chat.starts("update")) {
    return;
  }
  if (player.chat.starts("unstuck")) {
    return;
  }
  if (player.chat.starts("set")) {
    return;
  }
  if (clientr.isStaff) {
    Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@"<font color = red>"@player.nick@": "@"<font color=white>"@player.chat, false);
    Chat_Text.scrolltobottom();
    return;
  }
  Chat_Text.addtext("<br>"@player.nick@": "@player.chat, false);
  Chat_Text.scrolltobottom();
} 


That's not ideal, but better than yours.

[Gunderak]

Iv updated the script to be serverside.
i hope it now displays the chat properly.

[Mark Sir Link]

go back to the thread I posted in and look at how onPlayerChats an onRemotePlayerChats are used. Chat is already available on the clientside so there is no point in sending and receiving that data once again.

I'm not sure if player.isadmin returns correctly on the clientside, but isadminguild(player.guild) should work fine, and that is probably preferable.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Mark Sir Link

I'm not sure if player.isadmin returns correctly on the clientside

For the record, it doesn't.

[Gunderak]

The chat is only displaying clientside.. aka only showing what yourself chats and no one elses X_X

[Mark Sir Link]

Originally Posted by Gunderak

The chat is only displaying clientside.. aka only showing what yourself chats and no one elses X_X

because you're not using onRemotePlayerChats or triggering clients properly. For your triggerclient to work, you'd have to cycle through allplayers on the serverside and send them each a triggerclient individually. However, this is pointless and wasting resources since the chat is already available on the clientside by virtue of you being able to read it.

Also, the way you are checking for staff would not work at all, it will display red names for any player who logs in and is staff (regardless of who is chatting), and any normal player would see staff chat without red names.

Go back to the other thread and look at the example I posted and follow it a bit more carefully, and modify the addChat function to suit your specific needs