Using the Chatted Event

The chatted event fires whenever a player chats using the Roblox Chat feature in a game. This brief tutorial will show you how to setup a chatted event and make something happen.

Setting Chatted for All Players

There is an easy way to make the Chatted event registered on all players. Simply use the PlayerAdded event in combination with the Chatted event.

Game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
  player.Chatted:connect(function(msg)

  end)
end)

That is the basic structure of a chatted event connecting to any player that joins a game. In that script, you can use the variables 'msg' for the message chatted, and 'player' for whoever chatted the message.

Setting Chatted for One Player

A simple way to make the Chatted event only register for one user is to detect if the incoming player's name is a certain string. This is shown in the following example.

Game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
  if player.Name == "MrNicNac" then
    player.Chatted:connect(function(msg)

    end)
  end
end)

You can change "MrNicNac", to the name you want the chatted event to register for.

Setting Chatted for a Group of Players

This is a bit more complicated. Here we are going to use a table that holds string indexes of the players' names. You want to have the Chatted event register to when they enter the game. We will use the indexes, and not the values, so we can avoid making a longer-than-needed check system.

local People = {
    ["MrNicNac"] = true;
    ["Yami"] = true;
    ["Joey Wheeler"] = true;
    ["mattchewy"] = true;
}

Game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
  if People[player.Name] then 
    player.Chatted:connect(function(msg)
       --chatted code 
    end)
  end
end)

That will only make the chatted event register to the people who join with the same name as those in the 'People' table.