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ChannelTabsConfiguration
Inherits from: TextChatConfigurations → Instance → Object
Configures properties of the optional channel tabs in the default chat window. It is parented to TextChatService.
To learn more, see Customizing the Chat Window.
Inherits from: TextChatConfigurations
Memory category: Instances
Tags: NotCreatable
Properties
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.AbsolutePosition | Vector2 | Actual screen position of the channel tab bar, in pixels. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.AbsoluteSize | Vector2 | Actual screen size of the channel tab bar, in pixels. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.BackgroundColor3 | Color3 | Background color of the channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.BackgroundTransparency | double | Background transparency of the channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.Enabled | boolean | Whether to show the channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.FontFace | Datatype.Font | Font used to render text in the channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.HoverBackgroundColor3 | Color3 | Background color of a channel tab when hovering over it. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.SelectedTabTextColor3 | Color3 | Color of text in a selected tab. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextColor3 | Color3 | Color of text in an unselected tab. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextSize | int64 | Size of the text in channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextStrokeColor3 | Color3 | Color of the text stroke for text in channel tabs. |
| ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextStrokeTransparency | double | Transparency of the text stroke for text in channel tabs. |
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.Archivable | boolean | Determines if an Instance and its descendants can be cloned using Instance:Clone(), and can be saved/published. |
| Instance.archivable | boolean | |
| Instance.Capabilities | SecurityCapabilities | The set of capabilities allowed to be used for scripts inside this container. |
| Instance.IsInSandbox | boolean | Indicates whether the instance is inside a sandboxed container. |
| Instance.Name | string | A non-unique identifier of the Instance. |
| Instance.Parent | Instance | Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance. |
| Instance.PredictionMode | PredictionMode | Reflects the client-side prediction mode applied to the instance under server-authoritative physics. |
| Instance.RobloxLocked | boolean | A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects. |
| Instance.Sandboxed | boolean | When enabled, the instance can only access abilities in its Capabilities list. |
| Instance.UniqueId | UniqueId | A unique identifier for the instance. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.ClassName | string | A read-only string representing the class this Object belongs to. |
| Object.className | string |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.AbsolutePosition
Read-only property that provides the screen position of the channel tab bar in pixels. Behaves similarly to GuiBase2d.AbsolutePosition.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Vector2 |
| tags | ["ReadOnly","NotReplicated"] |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Data |
| serialization | {"can_load":false,"can_save":false} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.AbsoluteSize
Read-only property that provides the screen size of the channel tab bar in pixels. Behaves similarly to GuiBase2d.AbsoluteSize.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Vector2 |
| tags | ["ReadOnly","NotReplicated"] |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Data |
| serialization | {"can_load":false,"can_save":false} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.BackgroundColor3
Background color of the channel tabs. If the background color is not overridden, this value will respect the user's GuiService.PreferredTransparency by making the menu more gray as the transparency of the menu decreases. Default value is Color3.new(25, 27, 29).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Color3 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.BackgroundTransparency
Background transparency of the channel tabs as a number between 0 and 1. This value is multiplied with the user's GuiService.PreferredTransparency to create the effective background transparency used by the channel tabs, which may be more opaque than this value set here. Default value is 0.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | double |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.Enabled
Whether to show the channel tabs. Set to false to hide.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | boolean |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Behavior |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.FontFace
Font used to render text in the channel tabs. Default is Font.BuilderSansBold.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Datatype.Font |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.HoverBackgroundColor3
Background color of a channel tab when hovering over it. Default value is Color3.new(125, 125, 125).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Color3 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.SelectedTabTextColor3
Color of text in a selected tab. Default value is Color3.new(255, 255, 255).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Color3 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextColor3
Color of text in an unselected tab. Default value is Color3.new(175, 175, 175).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Color3 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextSize
Size of the text in channel tabs. Default value is 14.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | int64 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextStrokeColor3
Color of the text stroke for text in channel tabs. Default value is Color3.new(0, 0, 0).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Color3 |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
ChannelTabsConfiguration.TextStrokeTransparency
Transparency of the text stroke for text in channel tabs. Default value is 1.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | double |
| security | {"read":"None","write":"None"} |
| thread safety | ReadSafe |
| category | Appearance |
| serialization | {"can_load":true,"can_save":true} |
| capabilities | ["Chat"] |
Methods
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance:AddTag | () | Applies a tag to the instance. |
| Instance:children | Instances | Returns an array of the object's children. |
| Instance:ClearAllChildren | () | This method destroys all of an instance's children. |
| Instance:Clone | Instance | Create a copy of an instance and all its descendants, ignoring instances that are not Archivable. |
| Instance:clone | Instance | |
| Instance:Destroy | () | Sets the Instance.Parent property to nil, locks the Instance.Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy() on all children. |
| Instance:destroy | () | |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestor | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance.Name is equal to the given name. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Object.ClassName is equal to the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstChild | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name. |
| Instance:findFirstChild | Instance | |
| Instance:FindFirstChildOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance whose ClassName is equal to the given class name. |
| Instance:FindFirstChildWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstDescendant | Instance? | Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance.Name. |
| Instance:GetActor | Actor? | Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, if any. |
| Instance:GetAttribute | Variant | Returns the value which has been assigned to the given attribute name. |
| Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes. |
| Instance:GetAttributes | Dictionary | Returns a dictionary of the instance's attributes. |
| Instance:GetChildren | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the instance's children. |
| Instance:getChildren | Instances | |
| Instance:GetDebugId | string | Returns a coded string of the debug ID used internally by Roblox. |
| Instance:GetDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance. |
| Instance:GetFullName | string | Returns a string describing the instance's ancestry. |
| Instance:GetStyled | Variant | Returns the styled or explicitly modified value of the specified property, or else the default property value if it hasn't been styled/modified. |
| Instance:GetStyledPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given style property changes on the instance. |
| Instance:GetTags | Array | Gets an array of all tags applied to the instance. |
| Instance:HasTag | boolean | Check whether the instance has a given tag. |
| Instance:IsAncestorOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant. |
| Instance:IsDescendantOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor. |
| Instance:isDescendantOf | boolean | |
| Instance:IsPropertyModified | boolean | Returns true if the value stored in the specified property is not equal to the code-instantiated default. |
| Instance:QueryDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all descendants of the instance that match the selector string. |
| Instance:Remove | () | Sets the object's Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants. |
| Instance:remove | () | |
| Instance:RemoveTag | () | Removes a tag from the instance. |
| Instance:ResetPropertyToDefault | () | Resets a property to its default value. |
| Instance:SetAttribute | () | Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value. |
| Instance:WaitForChild | Instance | Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object:GetPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Get an event that fires when a given property of the object changes. |
| Object:IsA | boolean | Returns true if an object's class matches or inherits from a given class. |
| Object:isA | boolean |
Events
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.AncestryChanged | Fires when the Instance.Parent property of this object or one of its ancestors is changed. | |
| Instance.AttributeChanged | Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance. | |
| Instance.ChildAdded | Fires after an object is parented to this Instance. | |
| Instance.childAdded | ||
| Instance.ChildRemoved | Fires after a child is removed from this Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantAdded | Fires after a descendant is added to the Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantRemoving | Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed. | |
| Instance.Destroying | Fires immediately before (or is deferred until after) the instance is destroyed via Instance:Destroy(). | |
| Instance.StyledPropertiesChanged | Fires whenever any style property is changed on the instance, including when a property is set to nil. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.Changed | Fires immediately after a property of the object changes, with some limitations. |