enableChannel

1.42

LELocal

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Description

Description:

Enables/disables UI functionality which is responsible for sending text or voice chat to the given chat channel.

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This command:

• can override Description.ext or server config's channel setting
• cannot disable Global channel for the admin or server host, because Global channel is always available for the admin
• does not disable incoming text or voice
• actively interrupts (since Arma 3 v2.02) the current communication in progress
• does not affect chat related scripting commands such as vehicleChat, globalRadio etc.

Channel ID number correspondence
Default Channels						Custom Channels
Global	Side	Command	Group	Vehicle	Direct	CC 1	CC 2	CC 3	CC 4	CC 5	CC 6	CC 7	CC 8	CC 9	CC 10
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15

Groups:

Radio and Chat

Syntax

Syntax:

channelID enableChannel enable

Parameters:

channelID: Number - channel ID

enable: Boolean - true to enable, false to disable (both VoN and chat)

Return Value:

Nothing

1.60

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

channelID enableChannel [chat, VoN]

Parameters:

channelID: Number - channel ID

chat: Boolean - true to enable text chat

VoN: Boolean - true to enable voice chat

since 2.22

enableMapMarkers: Boolean - (Optional, default true) true to enable map marker placement

since 2.22

enableMapDrawing: Boolean - (Optional, default true) true to enable drawing on the map

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

0 enableChannel false; // disable user ability to send voice and text on global channel

Example 2:

0 enableChannel [true, false]; // enable user ability to send text but disable voice on global channel

Additional Information

See also:

currentChannel setCurrentChannel getPlayerChannel channelEnabled radioChannelCreate

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