Force Open The ChatBox

[Tehelee]

Is there a way, without calling the actual keypress, to open the chat box?

GAMEMODE:StartChat( bool ) doesn't seem to work, so just curious if anyone can point me in the right direction.

All help is appreciated, thanks guys!

[Wizard of Ass]

Not sure if its blocked but,

[lua]
RunConsoleCommand("messagemode");
[/lua]

[Tehelee]

Alrighty, any way to force close it?

Thanks :D

[Tehelee]

It's the oddest thing, 'messagemode' works fine as a bind, but try running it as a console command results in a 'Unknown command: messagemode'.
Any ideas?

[LauScript]

are you forcing them to run the command serverside or clientside

if i try to run clientside commands serverside i always get concommand blocked, maybe it's something similar with you, don't really know.

[Tehelee]

Well I tried calling it from code client side, and calling it as an actual command while hosting the server in gmod. I'll see about calling it from server side code.

[KyleWollasto]

[QUOTE=LauScript;32099782]are you forcing them to run the command serverside or clientside

if i try to run clientside commands serverside i always get concommand blocked, maybe it's something similar with you, don't really know.[/QUOTE]If you open your console and try running the command manually "messagemode" it results in "Unknown command: messagemode". If you bind a key to messagemode "bind" "y" "messagemode" and press the key, it works just fine..very weird indeed.

[Gran PC]

It's not a real console command. It's just hardcoded:

[cpp]int ClientModeShared::KeyInput( int down, ButtonCode_t keynum, const char *pszCurrentBinding )
{
if ( engine->Con_IsVisible() )
return 1;

// Should we start typing a message?
if ( pszCurrentBinding &&
( Q_strcmp( pszCurrentBinding, "messagemode" ) == 0 ||
Q_strcmp( pszCurrentBinding, "say" ) == 0 ) )
{
if ( down )
{
StartMessageMode( MM_SAY );
}
return 0;
}
[...]
[/cpp]

You need garry to make a binding for StartMessageMode.