It would be nice to have a feature which indicates when other users are typing in a chat room. This way, if I asked a question or expected some kind of feedback, I would not continue to typing know that a user may be in the process of responding.
I wanted to know how other users felt about this feature.
I have actually written this feature already using the Moodle cache API but wanted the opinion of the community.
Didn't want to upload if there isn't much interest.
Hopefully if the community is interested in this feature, it could be included in a future release.
I will publish the code later for review.
The attachment shows the working version of "is typing" in the chat module.
I also added a feature whre the teacher (while in the chat) could disable the student's ability to type so he/she could continue to type uninterrupted but have disabled it because this was coded and chatting in groups was not taken into account.
I updated the Moodle Tracker with a screen shot and link to the GitHub repository.
Hi Andre,
I have wished for this capability in the chat for years. THanks for taking the time to develop it.
I just tried your modified chat in the latest Moodle 2.9+ and see a couple of problems with it.
First problem is there is a significant difference in the version numbers and I had to fudge things to get Moodle 2.9 to run your version of Chat.
They seem to have just recently modified every mod_form.php file in Moodle so your version gives the following debug message when creating a chat activity and debug is on:
Function moodleform_mod::add_intro_editor() is deprecated, use moodleform_mod::standard_intro_elements() instead.
add_to_log() has been deprecated, please rewrite your code to the new events API
The fix for this is a little more involved and takes multiple lines of code and I have not played with it yet. Easiest would be to go look at the newer code for chat's view.php file and integrate it.
Regards,
AL