using vehiclechat

[Rone]

hello,

i am doing a coop mission in which the players each use a bike to go to a meeting place.
I wanted to make a private message appear when a player gets on his bike, using vehiclechat:

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this addeventhandler ["getin", {unit vehiclechat "blabla"}]
but nothing happens...
Is there a peculiar way to use the "vehiclechat" command?
Sorry if this question is stupid, i am a complete  noob.

[Spooner]

Information about the event are passed into the function, {}, in the _this array.

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this addeventhandler ["getin", {(_this select 0) vehiclechat "blabla"}]


[Rone]

hello spooner,
Ty for your help.
i put

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this addeventhandler ["getin", {(_this select 0) vehiclechat "blabla"}]in the init of the car but no message appear
when i use sidechat instead of vehiclechat, it works...

[Worldeater]

Sending the message immediately won't work. It seems like the game hasn't realized that you're in the car already.

The solution is to create a script that waits before it sends the message and run that script from the eventhandler:

Code: (Initialization field of the vehicle) [Select]

this addEventHandler ["GETIN", { "It's a hundred and six miles to Ortego..." execVM "sendVehicleMsg.sqf" }]

Code: (sendVehicleMsg.sqf) [Select]

waitUntil { (vehicle player) != player }; // wait until the game knows were inside
sleep 1;                                  // it's lying: it still doesn't know! So wait some more...
(vehicle player) vehicleChat _this;


[Rone]

Ty Worldeater,
i test that.

edit: works perfectly; thanks for your help.

[Spooner]

There is nothing like immediately spotting the obvious error to make you miss the real problem. Sorry!