New chat channel: Self or Silent or Whisper

[Shenanigunner]

It occurred to me, in posting the little squib about powexec_location cursor over in General, that it would be very useful to have a way to display a message just to yourself — say, a screen bubble that says "You just set travel to TELEPORT."

 

Since adding a popup message is probably too much code/work/time/cost, what about another chat channel mode that appears ONLY to the player? Call it Self or Silent or (old days) Whisper, so that anything said there would show as a chat bubble, but only to the player who says it.

 

I know, a little quirky, but if it's an easy dupe of code... why not? Maybe just take Local and reduce the radius to 1 foot?

 

It would not need any screen changes and perhaps not even a link into chat windows – the sole purpose would be to let players use a line command (in a bind or macro) to generate that bubble.

Edited June 1, 2021 by Shenanigunner

[Greycat]

Couldn't you just /t yourself? Fairly sure it works (local or global... )

 

Edit: Just double checked. You can just /t yourself. Or create a channel of your own and call it "my test" or whatnot and send output there, I suppose.

Edited June 1, 2021 by Greycat

[MTeague]

I mean is this just while you're  trying to debug something?  Or would you want this going Alllll the darn time, months on end, long after you got your binds and macros the way you want them?  

[arcane]

I send myself messages to [...] powers and see their info. Often use local chat if alone, or send tells between two accounts, but a self message feature could be good for that too.

[GraspingVileTerror]

I typically use "/sg" but I imagine that might not work so well for folks who use Super Groups for their traditional purpose, as opposed to individual character housing . . . *glances back and forth*

[ZorkNemesis]

A self-message channel certainly wouldn't hurt.  It would be useful for macro confirmations and /t'ing yourself can get too noisy.  Final Fantasy 11 has a feature like this already, where using /echo in a chat string displays a message to you only in the chat log, which is great because playing that game at a high level is basically amateur programming and having extra chat strings to help debug your macros is great.