This event is triggered when any message is output to chat using outputChatBox server-side (also when a player uses say, teamsay or me successfully).

It can be used to get the element responsible for a specific outputChatBox call via the second parameter.

Parameters

string theMessage, element theElement

• theMessage: A string representing the text that was output to the chatbox.

• theElement: A resource if it was done via outputChatBox or a player element if it was done via say, teamsay or me.

Source

element: The source of this event is the root element.

Code Examples

server

This example outputs all chat messages to debug view.

function onChatMessageHandler(theMessage, thePlayer)
  outputDebugString(theMessage)
end
addEventHandler("onChatMessage", root, onChatMessageHandler)

See Also

Server Events

• onBan
• onChatMessage
• onDebugMessage
• onExplosion
• onSettingChange
• onShutdown
• onUnban

Server Functions

• getMaxPlayers
• getServerConfigSetting
• getServerHttpPort
• getServerIpFromMasterServer
• getServerName
• getServerPassword
• getServerPort
• isGlitchEnabled
• setMaxPlayers
• setServerConfigSetting
• setGlitchEnabled
• setServerPassword
• shutdown

Server Elements

• console

Reference

• Scripting Events