Cockatrice: Tell users in PM when the other user is typing

[Salgarello]

A tracker to see if your friend is typing to answer you or it's afk is a very good thing.
And being able to add multiple friends to the same chat is even better, somewhat similar to MIRC and make DRAFTs much more easy to control and to last more than 1 round.
Thank you for your time.

[skwerlman]

:+1: for the idea of a typing indicator.

Multiple people in a single private chat is a duplicate of #1816.

[ZeldaZach]

It's an idea I think I considered in the past but it's a pain to go through and it would most certainly increase the protocols as it's not something even remotely close to what we've done before... @Daenyth Any opinion?

[Daenyth]

I think it would be a nice-to-have feature. We'd add some new proto methods

Command_StartTyping { to_username: string }, Command_StopTyping { to_username: string}, Event_StartTyping { from_username: string }

These could work in games by adding a game_id field or we could keep it to be only in pm with just usernames.

I don't think it would be that awful, network-wise.

[Daenyth]

("easy change" for a somewhat large value of "easy" - I'm willing to offer guidance on how to display this and for the proto, etc)

[Jinxstands4Jinx]

if you want a pm with multiple people just make a game and password protect it

[Daenyth]

That's a workaround, not a solution

[Jinxstands4Jinx]

yes but it works for now

[woogerboy21]

I understand the basic concept of this (not sure its a real value add personally), but were did you expect the notification that the other user is typing something show up? I don't believe we could put it in the existing chat window as there isnt a method for clearing lines once they have been appended into the chat box nor would we have a way to validate the last line is infact the line to remove (if it some how is possible). Are we suggesting something like shrinking the current chat box slightly to make room for another element in the tab?

[Daenyth]

I don't have a UI in mind, I'm open to proposals / mockups

[Salgarello]

My idea was to place it above the space for typing or anywhere on the screen actually

[ZeldaZach]

This seems super hard to do, and might not be worth it