A chatbot

[matthew]

Hello. I want to make a server-sided chatbot that says stuff if you say a special command like for example /help. How would i do that? Also, i would like someone to help me with this in steam chat if you can.

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[Zeblote]

What have you got so far? This isn't the board where you ask for someone else to do it all.

[matthew]

I have not made the code yet because i dont know where to start.  There is a tutorial on how to make a chatbot on the forums but not what im looking for.

[Thorfin25]

You just had some code though. Start with a package, and use the function clientCmdChatMessage(%a,%b,%c,%d,%pre,%name,%suff,%msg) like you had. Except don't use %a,%b,%c,%fmsg,%p,%name,%s,%fmsg, that makes you try to define %fmsg twice.

[matthew]

Like this?

package chatbot {
function clientCmdChatMessage(%a,%b,%c,%fmsg,%cp,%name,%cs,%msg) {
parent::clientCmdChatMessage(%a,%b,%c,%fmsg,%cp,%name,%cs,%msg);
}
};
activatePackage(chatbot);

[Thorfin25]

Everybody seems to find that one single chatbot tutorial. Well it kinda starts off right, with a package, a function, and a parent.

[Zeblote]

clientCmdChatMessage

server-sided

[Thorfin25]

Whoops, didn't see that.

For server sided you just need a function, do you want commands, like /help? Or someone says something in chat to trigger it?

[matthew]

I want commands. Anyways i just updated the script. It looks like this now:
package chatbot {
function ChatMessage(%a,%b,%c,%fmsg,%cp,%name,%cs,%fmsg) {
parent::ChatMessage(%a,%b,%c,%fmsg,%cp,%name,%cs,%fmsg);
}
};
activatePackage(chatbot);

[Thorfin25]

Then you can ignore what you got. For server commands the function is serverCmdBlah(%client,%arg1,%arg2...argN) so you can type in /blah into chat. Your first argument will always be %client in this case, and you can tag on more. Like if you want /blah little and /blah big to do different things you add an argument.

[matthew]

Like this??

package chatbot {
function serverCmdBlah(%client,%msg,%arg2);
};
activatePackage(chatbot);

[Thorfin25]

Yeah, and you change Blah for whatever you want. Also I don't think you should put in %msg in this case, just put it as %arg1. Then to send a message to a client you can use messageClient(%client,'',"message here"); notice how the second argument of messageClient is a set of ' as to be left blank.

[matthew]

Ok, I think i almost got it right. This is what it looks like now!:

package chatbot {
function ServerCmdHelp(%client)
{
   messageClient(' ',"\c3MattBot\c6:" SPC "Hey");
}


};
activatePackage(chatbot);

But for some reason nothing shows up on the screen when i use the command.

[matthew]

Im trying to make it so only the person that said the command can see the message aswell

[Thorfin25]

The first argument of messageClient is the client itself. So it should look like messageClient(%client,'',"\c3MattBot\c6: Hey");