Chat message per sender

SPStudio_Satyaloka · February 2021

Hello everyone, I've been using Photon for my studio for like 8 months, subbed to the 100 CCU also. Must say, Photon is really amazing.

I have been using Photon Chat as well but in the standard/traditional way just like the tutorial and demo. Now my game is using chat bubbles for displaying chat messages. I can't seem to find any way to create this, because as I see in the docs, PhotonChat Messages are in Dictionary of Dictionary<string, ChatChannel> PublicChannels. What I need is to get separate messages with their respective sender/owner. So I can instantiate the chat bubble according to who is the sender/owner.

Short version, how to get individual message + owner so I can create individual chat bubbles?

JohnTube · February 2021

Hi @SPStudio_Satyaloka,

Thank you for choosing Photon and for your kind words!

each Photon Chat Channel in the C# SDKs contains the list of received messages as a list and respective list for the senders' UserIDs.
For per message you can get the content and sender as follows:

chatChannel.Messages[i]
chatChannel.Senders[i]

Otherwise you could get the messages from the callbacks:

IChatClientListener.OnGetMessages()

or

IChatClientListener.OnPrivateMessage

SPStudio_Satyaloka · February 2021

Thanks for the reply! I actually did just that lol. Went through the IChatClientListener source to get the hang of how it works and managed to get it to work.

This is how I did it for anyone who is interested:

for(int i = 0; i < messages.Length; i++)
        {
            ShowMessage(senders[i], messages[i]);
        }

public void ShowMessage(string sender, object message)
    {
        if(sender != PhotonNetwork.NickName)
        {
            GameObject chatBubble = Instantiate(otherChatBubblePrefab, chatScrollViewContent.transform);
            chatBubble.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent<Text>().text = sender;
            chatBubble.transform.GetChild(1).gameObject.GetComponent<Text>().text = message.ToString();
        }
        else
        {
            GameObject chatBubble = Instantiate(selfChatBubblePrefab, chatScrollViewContent.transform);
            chatBubble.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent<Text>().text = sender;
            chatBubble.transform.GetChild(1).gameObject.GetComponent<Text>().text = message.ToString();
        }
    }

Chat message per sender

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