Creating a new chat just for team chat?

[Lukkaz]

Hey everyone, I was just wondering how I could go about creating a whole different chatbox just for 'y'. Is it possible to disable y for the original chatbox? What are the first steps I should take?

[Remp]

I'm not sure about disabling default teamchat, but teamchat messages can be canceled in onPlayerChat, meaning you could make it do whatever you wanted to without touching the binds

If you want to bind the chatbox to another key, this might be a good place to start

[qaisjp]

I have already done this before.

Use:

unbindKey("y", "down", "chatbox", "teamsay") 
bindKey("y", "down", "chatbox", "friendsay") 
addCommandHandler("friendsay", 
     function(thePlayer, theMessage) 
              for i,v in ipairs(myFriends) do 
                    outputChatBox(v, theMessage) 
              end 
      end 
) 

[BinSlayer1]

@qaisjp: Weird code. I don't know what it does, but as I see it, your script's messing clientside and serverside

What should it be? Because bindKey doesn't have a player element therefore it looks clientside and addCommandHandler has the player element therefore it looks serverside

And the myFriends table in ipairs isn't defined anywhere

[Lukkaz]

Yeah, I don't understand either...I got as far as creating my other chatbox but idk how to add the chat into the box...

[BinSlayer1]

Well, since you're saying you've created the new chatbox, all you gotta do now is cancel the event onPlayerChat when it detects a team-message and use the dxDrawText function to draw the message gathered from onPlayerChat (that was cancelled) to your new chatbox

[qaisjp]

I wasn't giving raw code. I was giving examples. Just edit the bindKey.

[Callum]

qaisjp: The first argument of 'outputChatBox' isn't a player element, but rather a string of text.

[qaisjp]

qaisjp: The first argument of 'outputChatBox' isn't a player element, but rather a string of text.

Aha, yes. Sorry everyone