[Galene] Re: groupAction clearchat & lock

[Jeroen van Veen <jvanveen@protonmail.com>]

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Just reminded that I could accomplish the same thing with triggering the userMessage myself.
Not sure what the best option is :)

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Op vrijdag 30 juli 2021 om 4:42 PM schreef Jeroen van Veen <jvanveen@protonmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on adding context actions (groupAction/userAction) with optional custom
> messages to Pyrite. After performing an action, I would like to add a notification to
> all users that are affected by the action. For instance, to clear the chat, an operator would do:
> "connection.groupAction('clearchat')"
>
> Next, all users (including the operator) receive a user message (onusermessage) with kind 'clearchat',
> that triggers a notification in Pyrite. This, together with echo, is a nice central place to trigger action
> notifications from.
>
> If I do something similar for lock, e.g. "connection.groupAction('lock')", I would now check the
> "joined" (kind "change") event for the locked status. (Would it be possible to have
> the locked property in there all the time, even if it's not locked?) For record/unrecord, I would check the
> onUser event for a user with name RECORDING.
>
> Would it be an idea to trigger user messages for groupAction commands? This may
> be a good place to store the custom message as well? I can't seem to get
> to the custom groupAction message now, (e.g. "connection.groupAction('lock', 'My custom message')")
> With userAction, e.g. "userAction('kick', user.id, 'Custom message')", this would trigger a user message
> with kind 'error'.
>
> Using a custom message prefix, I could identify the action that triggered the custom 'error' message,
> but maybe a 'kick' kind of message would be more appropriate? Could groupAction do something similar,
> or did I overlook something?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeroen

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