Hello!

Would like to ask if it is possible to send what I type in to the console to my oponent screen?
But only display when I want it to? Or totally do not display?

Thanks!

press enter to send the message?
dont really understand the question here

Spring.Echo("message") > this display message on everyone in the game console?
Or it only display on the player console?

For example, I have this message > "test"
But would want test to only show up on the opponent screen when I want to, will it be possible?

http://springrts.com/wiki/LuaCallinReturn
AddConsoleLine() --> "msg, priority"
i.e. write a widget:AddConsoleLine(msg, priority)

Chat-Messages are a string in the form:
<NAME> MESSAGE

So you have the playername, check if it's from an enemy and start action. The highest detailed answer for the question possible.

echo in a gadget: shows only the message, no player name. visible to all.

echo in a widget: just visble to the player running the widget. at least i think because otherwise i wonder why nobody complaint on the occaisions where i accidently spammed the chat with widgets going mad

To send chat a chatmessage from widget use Spring.SendCommands("say blabla")
Spring.SendCommands("say a: blabla") for teamchat.

Hmm..i tried Spring.SendCommands("say blabla") and Spring.SendCommands("say a: blabla") but the message is still display in the console/chat.

For example, the players type the following:
Player A: Alpha
Player B: Bravo

Can we send the message player B has 'Bravo' to player A side without displaying it in the chat?

I need player A to have player B message in the console(such that it will be log in the infolog.txt but not show in the chat).

the text entered in chat is always visible to all players unless you hide the console completly with /console 0
Maybe you want
http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_UnsyncedCtrl#SendLuaMessage
+
http://answers.springlobby.info/questions/429/howto-write-to-a-file-from-lua

/w playername message
is supposed to whisper a message to a player, except in current version it seems broken, as in no message is recieved :/

Thanks for all the help!

The above is able to send message and the opponent will be able to see.

However, I want to sent a message while the opponent do not see it. In the end, I use "/n" (insert new line) to clear the console before the opponent could see.

This doesn't work. The opponent may be using a lua console which does not display the extra newlines or allows the user to scroll up and look at the message. If you entirely disable lua the opponent could still read the message by opening and reloading their infolog as Spring writes to it.

yup. in my case I want to send the message player A has to player B computer (infolog and also a txt file that I ask a widget to write that message). but doesn't want the player to be able to see in the console =D

widgets/gadgets can talk to each other through other ways then the chat console.
"Very important! (allows synced inter-lua-enviroment communications)"

Thanks knorke!
Understand the concept of the communication between widget and gadget.

Say we have lots of messages going in between the widget and gadget.
How do we check the contains of the message to what we want before we do the action? string.gmatch(message, keyword)?

Thanks!

in spring tanks i do it like this:
(in ST there are two kind of messages the gadget can send to the widget:
1) "game event messages" like "the game has started!" etc
2) "score table messages" which is the current score of all players packed into a string)

I prefix messages with stuff so the widget can tell them apart:

the gadget then does stuff like


and on widget side:
For widget->gadget talk I would do it the same way, I think.
Just with SendLuaRulesMsg instead of SendLuaUIMsg.

Using this we could send information to another player without displaying in the console?

yes.

Thanks =)