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[Ultric]

I'm not good at working with server and client communications so I have no idea what I'm doing half of the time.I'm using the Chat.as in the sample games as a base for my own chat engine. The problem is, I can't seem to get any sort of nickname (located in BigDB) to replace the "simple<emailhere>" thing. I'm using QuickConnect and BigDB. My AS code is pretty much the same as the Chat code (except I moved the components around for visual appeal). Here's my C#:

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public override void UserJoined(Player player) {
         // this is how you send a player a message
            //Send info about all already connected users to the newly joined users chat
            Message m = Message.Create("ChatInit");
            //BigDB.Load("PlayerObjects",player.Id,);

            m.Add(player.Id);

            foreach (Player p in Players)
            {
                m.Add(p.Id, p.ConnectUserId);
            }

            player.Send(m);

            //Informs other users chats that a new user just joined.
            Broadcast("ChatJoin", player.Id, player.ConnectUserId);
      }

I tried to use the .PlayerObject.GetString(<valuehere>) function but I don't think it work. Any help would be appreciated.

[Oliver]

Hey,

We're here to help.

If you look in the ActionScript Chat.as file, you'll find this snippet:

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_connection.addMessageHandler("ChatJoin", function(m:Message, id:String, name:String){
   addUser(id,name)
})


Ie, when the client receives a "ChatJoin" message, it will take the assign the name (2nd argument) to the id of the 1st argument.

There is also the message sent with the complete userlist:

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_connection.addMessageHandler("ChatInit", onInit)
...
private function onInit(m:Message, id:String){
   for( var a:int=1;a<m.length;a+=2){
      addUser(m.getString(a),m.getString(a+1))
   }
}


So you have to change these two lines in the serverside code, if you want to assign another name to a user:

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...
m.Add(p.Id, p.ConnectUserId); <-- change p.ConnectUserId here
....
Broadcast("ChatJoin", player.Id, player.ConnectUserId); <-- change player.ConnectUserId


If the name is stored in the BigDB PlayerObject for each player, you can easily accomplish this by

a) Set "PreloadPlayerObjects = true" in the GameStarted method and
b) Change the lines to

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...
m.Add(p.Id, p.PlayerObject.GetString("username"));
....
Broadcast("ChatJoin", player.Id, player.PlayerObject.GetString("username"));


Hope this helps.

Best,
Oliver

[Ultric]

Ah, that was my problem. I forgot to preload the playerobjects. Thanks for the help!