28.06 after some worries with the if and else clauses i finally got the whisper command working. switch/case would have been a real helper here!!

now you can "/w name text" and its displayed only for the player with the right player_name.

iam really happy because teamsay shouldnt be a problem now because it works similar. what i did was to send the chat over the network in the form "/a playerto playerfrom messagetext".

then only display it in the on_server or on_client functions at the "EVENT_STRING" if the playerfrom text was equal to player_name.

heres a little example code of how my probably ugly string manipulation works just to get the idea: (note: its not complete, and uses locoweeds chat example as base)

Code:

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		// send chat to a special player with "/w playerto text"
		if(str_cmpni(str_chatentry,"/w "))
		{

			txtchatentry.visible = off;
	
			// change text so that it is "you whisper to nameto: messagetext"		
			str_cpy(str_temp,"you whisper to "); // put players name before entry
			str_clip(str_chatentry,3); // clip /a at start
			str_cpy(str_whisperto, str_chatentry); // copy first 20 chars to name
			temp = str_stri(str_whisperto," "); // find first space after name
			str_trunc(str_whisperto, (str_len(str_whisperto)-temp)+1); // trunctate the rest of the name string
			str_cat(str_temp,str_whisperto); // copy name to temp
			str_cat(str_temp,":"); // copy : to temp
			str_clip(str_chatentry,str_len(str_whisperto)); // clip the name from the chatentry
			str_cat(str_temp,str_chatentry); // paste chatentry after name
			str_cpy(str_sendchat, str_temp); // place the result in sendchat
	
			
			// if host display already and send to others
			if(connection == 3)
			{
				
			
				// move old chat entries one up and display str_sendchat at bottom
				update_chat();
			
				
				// add "/w " and send "/w nameto namefrom messagetext" to clients
				str_cpy(str_temp, "/w ");  // add /w
				str_cat(str_temp, str_whisperto); // add name to whisper to
				str_cat(str_temp, " "); // spacer
				str_cat(str_temp, player_name); // add sender name
				str_cat(str_temp, " "); // spacer
				str_cat(str_temp, str_chatentry); // message text left over from top
				str_cpy(str_sendchat, str_temp);
				
				send_string(str_sendchat);
		
			
			}
			else // if client send entry to server for processing/manipulation
			{
				// move old chat entries one up and display str_sendchat at bottom
				update_chat();
				
				// add "/w " and send "/w nameto namefrom messagetext" to clients
				str_cpy(str_temp, "/w ");  // add /w
				str_cat(str_temp, str_whisperto); // add name to whisper to
				str_cat(str_temp, " "); // spacer
				str_cat(str_temp, player_name); // add sender name
				str_cat(str_temp, " "); // spacer
				str_cat(str_temp, str_chatentry); // message text left over from top
				str_cpy(str_sendchat, str_temp);
				
				send_string(str_sendchat);
			}
			
		}

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and here is a screenshot of it working (notice the chat at the bottom)