Bug - Not A Bug chat_private doesn't appear to work

[picklish]

As far as I can tell,

chat_private("Picklish", "test");

doesn't appear to send any message.

However,

visit_url("chat.php?graf=1&pwd&graffiti=/w Picklish test");

works just fine.

This is on r8923. I've never tried this function before.

 

[slyz]

Is this the character Picklish PMing himself?

 

[holatuwol]

It was originally intended to only allow you to PM people who had sent you a PM (and only while in the middle of a chatbot script), or people in your clan. But I guess that restriction wasn't necessary since there was another chat URL that wasn't ever blocked. ^^;;

 

[Grotfang]

To clarify (since sending yourself a PM should work fine) -- who is it you are sending a PM to? Someone who messaged you, someone in your clan (or on its whitelist if you can see the whitelist) or someone not noticeably connected to you through these means?

 

[Grotfang]

Since we haven't had a response, I'm marking this as Not a Bug and hoping that hola's new unrestricted chat_private fixes the problem (which also assumes that at the time of reporting it was intended behaviour).

 

[picklish]

Ack. I thought I had subscribed to this thread.

I was trying to write a faxbot request script, because it didn't look like the new UI for faxing had been exposed to script yet. I was messaging myself as a test, because it was easier to tell if the message succeeded or not. The new chat_private function works perfectly. Thanks.