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[ksoomro]

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I have developed the video chat page it is working fine. Now I need

text chat part also. Could you please send me its sample code or let

me know which method should I use to integrate this feature on my

page.

Thanks!

Looking forward to your early response

Best regards

Kashif

[Adam Ullman]

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Hi Kashif
We currently do not have textchat built into our API. What we do have however is simple signaling that could be used to build text chat. If you store the chat messages yourself in the backend eg. in a database or even in a flat file then you can use our signaling API to tell people when someone sends a message. The signaling function is Session.signal() and just sends a signal with no contents. The idea is that you would use this signal to indicate that some data has changed.
For example a very basic text chat implementation could be to store a text file on your server for every session eg <session_id>.txt. The contents of the text file is the contents of the textchat for that session. Then every time someone sends a message they append their message to that text file and call the signal() function. When everyone in the Session receives the signalReceived they use an AJAX call to pull the contents of the updated text file. This implementation would obviously not scale very well to large text chats but you get the idea.
Hope that helps
Adam
On Dec 27 2010 at 10:00 PM ksoomro wrote:
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[Kashif Soomro]

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Thanks Adam for your prompt response. Could you please let me know when the
text chat built will be available in your API?
I am going to try the other way as told by you.
Best regards
Kashif
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[Adam Ullman]

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We don't currently have plans to add text chat to the API but it is something we are considering.
Adam
On Dec 27 2010 at 11:19 PM Kashif Soomro wrote:
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[Kashif Soomro]

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I think this feature is necessary with Video Chat so should be added in
the API.
 Thanks for your consideration!
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[netusco]

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Hi Kashif
did you end up trying to implement the text chat using signal()?
Could you send me the code if you did it?
I would like to do the same while waiting that they implement the text chat
that I also feel it's really needed.

[Melih Onvural]

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We understand that text chat is a feature that many folks want but our first and foremost goal right now is to really build the best video chat API that is available.
Time spent building text chat is time not spent making our video chat product more robust and it's just not time that we have right now unfortunately. That said we hear you and we'll keep the community informed if text chat becomes something that we are able to build out.
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Melih O.
me...@tokbox.com
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