Questions tagged [chat]

Generic term for "Instant Messaging System". It can also represent a discussion that occurs in an Instant Messaging System.

In terms of computing, chat refers to methodologies and applications to enable to transmission and receipt of messages between end users, whether text or media (e.g voice, video), as well as the content of any such communication.

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Flutter FirebaseAnimatedList rebuilds and moves widgets that have specific index to another place

I have a chat which queries messages from firebase. FirebaseAnimatedList( query: ChatService.instance.getMessagesQuery(widget.recipientUid), reverse: false, controller: scrollController, itemBuilder: (BuildContext…
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Can't Access Pods(Swift + Objc) inside framework target

I am using a ProjectB inside ProjectA, which means I have dragged and Dropped projectB inside ProjectA, I have installed Pods for both Project In ProjectA and I can access them in ProjectB also, Now the problem is I have one framework inside…
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UISegmentedControl to switch between identities in chat situation

I am trying to create an app with a built in chat feature. I am trying to make it work similarly to the Messages application, with one major difference. Instead of there being a camera icon for MMS I would like to add a UISegmentedControl to…
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Should I build the chatting from scratch or buy a chatting api?

I need teachers to send messages to the students and vice-versa? Should I and can I build something like that with average knowledge or should I use a chatting api on my website? I use php, mysql for back-end and for front-end standard languages.
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Mongodb Mongoose sort and paginate chat messages

I am making a chat app where 10 messages are loaded per page. The messages are sorted from oldest to latest, so the new messages come in bottom and old messages are in top. I tried to use skip() and limit() methods it didnt work. let count =…
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Show user name on chatlist

I have created a lan messenger. It can connect to multiple client. Individual window is created to make conversation with each user. Popup on receiving is also done. But the problem is how to show user info like login users name to remote users.…
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Testproject Messager with Flutter using Peer-to-Peer Technology

I'm working on a Testproject, where I want to exchange information via peer-to-peer from one Mobile device to another. My goal is to make a little chat widget, where when you post a message, you can see it on all devices, which are connected, a bit…
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How does the disconnect event works in socket.io?

I followed a tutorial and was able to copy/build a simple real time web app. I understand everything from the code except for one thing. The 'disconnect' event. I removed most of the code for simplification, but it goes like…
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Perform action on seen/unseen messages with socket.io

What is the best practice to handle seen/unseen messages in a chat room application based on Nodejs/SocketIO/React. Consider User1 sends a message to a room. If another user has seen that message, notify all users that the state of message has been…
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chat app work perfectly in local but stopped working when deployed to heroku - django

I did a chatting part in my web app with django it works perfectly in local but after I deployed it to heroku , it doesn't work: this is my consumers.py class: from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncWebsocketConsumer from…
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How to use the same socket on different pages in react native

I am using Socket.io for chatting feature in my react-native project. My project is using react native navigation. But I have trouble things passing Socket.io socket to certain screens. I want to share the socket with the navigation( like a prop I…
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Overwriting the text in slot

I am designing a chat application. My query is that I am printing the message and name of the user in a chat box on pressing a send button in Qt. Every time I press the button instead of writing the new message in next line, it erases the previous…
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YouTube API PHP Disable Chat

I want to create a live streams from the API, and I can do it, but I want to disable the chat. Is it possible to disable the chat when I create the liveStream or the Broadcast? If it is possible, can you tell me the name of the function to do this?
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Node.js: event-based comet insted of periodic ajax requests?

Core features of node.js as far as I understood are (also): event-based structure and very cheap "threads" sleeping. So, it may be really good idea (and probably cheaper) to do not create periodic ajax requests, but to hold events like "user A got a…
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How to send a block of text line-by-line in a hotstring?

I have a block of text containing multiple lines and want to send it to a chap app line-by-line. I want to have a procedure like this: I type in a hotstring trigger (say, hotstringtrigger), and AutoHotKey will send the first line (the text should…
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