Hello,
I have recently discovered nowjs and is awesome, thank you!

How do i modify the code so that to exclude the user who is posting
it?

// code from http://www.adityaravishankar.com/2011/10/nowjs-node-js-tutorial-creat...
// Send message to everyone on the users group
everyone.now.distributeMessage = function(message){
    console.log(this.user.clientId);
    //console.log('Received message from '+this.now.name +' in
serverroom '+this.now.serverRoom);
    var group = nowjs.getGroup(this.now.serverRoom);
    group.now.receiveMessage(this.now.name+'@'+this.now.serverRoom,
message);

many thanks

Typically when I have done this in the past I've just ignored it on the
client-side. Unless you're sending huge amounts of text in the message
you're not saving any significant bandwidth by not broadcasting the message
to the user who sent the message. It looks like you're already keeping a
unique name property on each client that's accessible to the client so this
should be easy.

Alternatively, in terms of application flow, if you're talking about just
displaying user messages (as opposed to sending control messages) you could
add the message the user typed to the chat log only after it's received
back from the server, with no filtering, which means you know the message
actually went through.

Sorry if that's not the answer you were looking for. If you really want to
filter on the server-side without a lot of extra lines of code you could
probably do something with http://nowjs.org/doc/symbols/Group#exclude but I
wouldn't recommend it. A real answer to this server-side would be to do
something like now-middleware and being able to hook into the stack where
the server is calling the client (not client calling the server as it is
now) and run your exclusion code that way.

HTH,

Ian Serlin

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thanks for the reply. sorry i was not clear with my subject title and
the actual post!

there are two questions:

1/. when sending a message, i don't want to display this back to the
user who sent it.
2/. how to deal with PM to one or a set of users?

On Jan 23, 6:25 pm, Ian Serlin <i...@ianserlin.com> wrote:

so this is a use case as per the discussion on github (i think i read
it there) where a user sends a file and we don't want to send the same
file back to the user who sends it!

what i was looking for is to modify:

group.now.receiveMessage(this.now.name+'@'+this.now.serverRoom,
message);

so that it includes the https://github.com/Flotype/now/pull/80#issuecomment-1448994

everyone.exclude([this.user.clientId]).now.receive(this.now.name + ":
" + msg);

i am unsure how to do the:

var group = nowjs.getGroup(this.now.serverRoom);

 and include the .exclude([this.user.clientId])

the way i understand it is that this is all done on the server, as the
user sends the 'message' which is then broadcasted to all the users
from the server, but excluding the original poster? perhaps i am
misunderstanding it?