How to differentiate between who sent the messages in the photon chat other than usernames?

Darshan_Sahay

So I have created a chat system for Multiplayer and it is working fine but I want a change in my UI so that player recognizes that messages were sent by other user or not. I have attached a picture for ref. White background should be personal user while brown be other clients.

But i am not getting how to do that , any help would be appreciated...

Tobias

This need to be done by sender id / username. There is nothing else to identify anyone.

Darshan_Sahay

@Tobias sir I don't get how would I access the senders User Id here.

I am doing this to send message -

    public Text InstantiateMessageBox()
    {
        //if (chatClient.UserId == userName) // should i do something Like this??
        //if(view.IsMine)     // or like this
        {
            GameObject messageBox = Instantiate(userMessageBox, chatMessagePanel.transform);
            Text messageText = messageBox.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();


            return messageText;
        }
        else
        {
            GameObject messageBox = Instantiate(otherUserMessageBox, chatMessagePanel.transform);
            Text messageText = messageBox.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();


            return messageText;
        }
    }


    public void SendMsg()
    {
        chatClient.PublishMessage(region, messageField.text);
        messageField.text = "";
        //sRect.velocity = new Vector2(0f, 1000f);
    }

    public void OnGetMessages(string channelName, string[] senders, object[] messages)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < senders.Length; i++)
        {
            Text message = InstantiateMessageBox();
            message.text += messages[i];
            sRect.velocity = new Vector2(0f, 1000f);
        }
    }

Tobias

In OnGetMessages, there is a list of senders and corresponding messages...

Darshan_Sahay

After some more research I was able to make it work. Changes in the code block --

public Text InstantiateMessageBox(string id)
    {
        if(chatClient.UserId == id)    
        {
            GameObject messageBox = Instantiate(userMessageBox, chatMessagePanel.transform);
            Text messageText = messageBox.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();


            return messageText;
        }
        else
        {
            GameObject messageBox = Instantiate(otherUserMessageBox, chatMessagePanel.transform);
            Text messageText = messageBox.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();


            return messageText;
        }
    }

public void OnGetMessages(string channelName, string[] senders, object[] messages)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < senders.Length; i++)
        {
            Text message = InstantiateMessageBox(senders[i]);
            message.text += messages[i];
            sRect.velocity = new Vector2(0f, 1000f);
        }
    }

tleylan

Hi Darshan... I realize that you didn't ask but I thought you (and others) might like to see common optimizations. Blocks of repeated code are one of the common places bugs can occur.

public Text InstantiateMessageBox(string id)
{
	var msgBox = (chatClient.UserId == id)? userMessageBox : otherUserMessageBox;

	var messageBox = Instantiate(msgBox, chatMessagePanel.transform);
	return messageBox.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();
}

Darshan_Sahay

@tleylan thanks for the optimization bro.

VickyJoe

Hi @Darshan_Sahay can you please help me in this ..i'm implemeting the same thing in my chat ,the public and private chat differentiate..but i dont know how to implement this ..the bg image prefab implementation..can you help me

VickyJoe

https://forum.photonengine.com/discussion/comment/60835#Comment_60835

https://forum.photonengine.com/discussion/comment/60823#Comment_60823

Hi can you help me in this

tleylan

I really don't know anything about this chat implementation. I'm just a coder 😎

Darshan_Sahay

@VickyJoe if it is in my knowledge I can help out.