Chatting with public messages

The most basic communication method in a virtual world is public chat channel. A public message is populated to all players within the same room. The public message mechanism is like people talking loudly in a room. All people can listen and join the conversation. However, when they leave the room, they cannot listen to the conversation anymore. This is exactly how public message behaves in a virtual world.

Chatting with public messages

We are going to make a chat dialog for public chat. The chat is composited by two parties — the sender and the receiver. The sender is a client which speaks the message out loud. The receivers are the clients which ...

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