Enable Chat Bot functionality

[social]

Please consider providing the necessary functionality to "listen" to Chat Statements,
and use Keywords to trigger Bot events - so that Conversations could occur,
and so that Users could Order special things, like upgrading their Memberships
during a game, or buying more Credit from a Pit Boss, etc....
or buying everybody at the table a drink.

I know you said this is possible In the Lobby.

I would also like to be able to communicate with all the players while they are at the tables,
to make special announcements while games are in progress.

I have a lot of ways that I would like to use Bots from within the Table Environment,
rather than having to go to the Lobby.

I would like my users to be able to Multitask, and interact with other APPs on my site
while they are playing.

Of course a lot of this maybe would be best in a Private Chat mode....
if that was possible.

This is especially important for Mobile Users, because navigation between screens seems to be a bit of a Pain, to me.

[Kent Briggs]

You can make announcements in the table chat at any time using the RingGamesMessage and TournamentsMessage commands in the API. Also, you can still monitor player chat at the tables using the Hand Event callback. It just wouldn't be quite in real-time since that triggers once at the end of each hand (which may be good enough in some cases). You would then retrieve the hand history and have to pull out the chat lines with your own filtering code. Another option is to embed the client in an iframe on your web site and reserve a little bit of space on the screen edge for your own menu, which can trigger anything you want it to do outside of the game.

[social]

You can make announcements in the table chat at any time using the RingGamesMessage and TournamentsMessage commands in the API. Also, you can still monitor player chat at the tables using the Hand Event callback. It just wouldn't be quite in real-time since that triggers once at the end of each hand (which may be good enough in some cases). You would then retrieve the hand history and have to pull out the chat lines with your own filtering code. Another option is to embed the client in an iframe on your web site and reserve a little bit of space on the screen edge for your own menu, which can trigger anything you want it to do outside of the game.

Is there any way to have an announcement appear as a Popup or Overlay above each table, where people could not miss it if they have chat shut off or aren't looking at it?

[harrythree]

You can make announcements in the table chat at any time using the RingGamesMessage and TournamentsMessage commands in the API. Also, you can still monitor player chat at the tables using the Hand Event callback. It just wouldn't be quite in real-time since that triggers once at the end of each hand (which may be good enough in some cases). You would then retrieve the hand history and have to pull out the chat lines with your own filtering code. Another option is to embed the client in an iframe on your web site and reserve a little bit of space on the screen edge for your own menu, which can trigger anything you want it to do outside of the game.

Is there any way to have an announcement appear as a Popup or Overlay above each table, where people could not miss it if they have chat shut off or aren't looking at it?

When your backend is listening for server callbacks and posting to the various chat APIs, it could also trigger some JavaScript code or HTML on your site that would then trigger some type of custom modal to pop up above the iframe where your mavens client is running.

This has a pretty good example of what I'm trying to explain

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2478 ... ove-iframe

[social]

You can make announcements in the table chat at any time using the RingGamesMessage and TournamentsMessage commands in the API. Also, you can still monitor player chat at the tables using the Hand Event callback. It just wouldn't be quite in real-time since that triggers once at the end of each hand (which may be good enough in some cases). You would then retrieve the hand history and have to pull out the chat lines with your own filtering code. Another option is to embed the client in an iframe on your web site and reserve a little bit of space on the screen edge for your own menu, which can trigger anything you want it to do outside of the game.

Is there any way to have an announcement appear as a Popup or Overlay above each table, where people could not miss it if they have chat shut off or aren't looking at it?

When your backend is listening for server callbacks and posting to the various chat APIs, it could also trigger some JavaScript code or HTML on your site that would then trigger some type of custom modal to pop up above the iframe where your mavens client is running.

This has a pretty good example of what I'm trying to explain

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2478 ... ove-iframe

Is it possible for Admin to include clickable Links/URLs in Announcements in the Chatbox OR in the Chatbox in the Lobby?

[Kent Briggs]

Is there any way to have an announcement appear as a Popup or Overlay above each table, where people could not miss it if they have chat shut off or aren't looking at it?

Not at each table but you can use ConnectionsMessage in the API to throw a popup message over the lobby window for specific players. It has to be acknowledged before the lobby can be used again.

[social]

Is it possible for Admin to include clickable Links/URLs in Announcements in the Chatbox OR in the Chatbox in the Lobby?

I tried to post a link in the Lobby Chat as Administrator but it was not clickable.

Allowing clickable links would make it much easier to provide customer support by referring people to FAQ pages, etc.

[Kent Briggs]

Is it possible for Admin to include clickable Links/URLs in Announcements in the Chatbox OR in the Chatbox in the Lobby?

Not in the chat boxes (html tags are escaped there for security) but you can include links in the Description field for each table. Also in the Site News and Site FAQ boxes. When doing that, be sure to include a target="_blank" attribute to load the link into a new tab.

[social]

Is it possible for Admin to include clickable Links/URLs in Announcements in the Chatbox OR in the Chatbox in the Lobby?

Not in the chat boxes (html tags are escaped there for security) but you can include links in the Description field for each table. Also in the Site News and Site FAQ boxes. When doing that, be sure to include a target="_blank" attribute to load the link into a new tab.

Could you build in an option to not apply the "escape" to Admins?

[Kent Briggs]

Could you build in an option to not apply the "escape" to Admins?

I'll consider that. But there's a danger there though because if you forget to include that target attribute (and most probably will forget), clicking the link will overwrite and disconnect the client. And even if you do include it, a mobile user running in full-screen app mode will disconnect anyway.