Partially Used: VC command to toggle playing a sound when you recieve a message?

Basic idea is if I am logged in, but working in another window, I would like to be able to type a command so that if I get any chat messages, I will hear a sound of some sort. Then I want to be able to turn it off when I come back to the NWN window.

I'll second this! Def. a handy little feature, methinks! Would also be handy if one is crafting at sronj's, as well ... would beat having to weed through all those lines of window text to see if anyone is trying to chat with ya!

I'd find that useful also. And to have capability to turn it off, or not, when in the game window. As Eric said, it's easy to miss a chat message if crafting.

I could do something like this for every channel except for private Tell messages. Tells don't trigger the chat event, so nothing would happen if you sent or received one.

I actually already do it for DMs when they are logged in and get a message on the DM channel (and when players log in an out).

Sweet! Would be nice, I do on occasion login and gets distracted by other things, and totally forgets about the game...haha, died once because of that. After that one time, I have a tendency of at least walking inside a safe place/outside of the deadly rays of the sun when minimizing the game or switching windows.

Perhaps in addition to the chat 'ding' toggle VC vommand, an additional command to 'page' a specific person?

So I send a tell, and then type in something like ;;page xxxxx

Where xxxxx is the charatcer name, and that person gets a 'ding' sound?

daveyeisley wrote:Perhaps in addition to the chat 'ding' toggle VC vommand, an additional command to 'page' a specific person?

So I send a tell, and then type in something like ;;page xxxxx

Where xxxxx is the charatcer name, and that person gets a 'ding' sound?

Boy, oh boy, dave is just chock full of awesome ideas!

That could work.

I wanted to re-emphasize that I'd totally find the audio alert feature useful for the situation that Dave originally stated. Which is for when I'm OOG off doing something else, like working on a post, while waiting for a playing buddy to show or return from an afk (especially those playing buddies that don't use an IM for me to contact them). A paging function would also enhance this.

This might turn out to be trickier than it seems. The module chat event fires on the player speaking event but does not identify the listener(s), so the trick is to figure out who is supposed to hear the message before you can send them a "play sound" command! Maybe has a trick up his sleeve I'm not thinking of. The NWNX chat plugin (at least on linux) allows tells to be captured and does give the recipient. Simply sending someone a page seems like it should be the easyist to get working.

Paging idea used.