Message Actions

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Messages have actions. They will appear if a user long (or force) presses on a message.

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• .reactions

• .reply

• .edit

• .muteUser

• .flagMessage

• .flagUser

• .banUser

• .copy

• .delete

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ChatViewController has messageActions and defaultMessageActionsproperties.

You can customize a list of message actions:

• override defaultMessageActions in your subclass:

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override var defaultMessageActions: ChatViewController.MessageAction { 
    return [.reactions, .copy] 
}

• change messageActions when you initialize ChatViewController:

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let chatViewController = ChatViewController() 
chatViewController.messageActions = [.reactions, .copy]

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class MyChatViewController: ChatViewController { 
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { 
        super.init(coder: aDecoder) 
        messageActions = [.reactions, .copy] 
    } 
}

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You can override long-press action with this method of ChatViewController:

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open func showActions(from cell: UITableViewCell, for message: Message, locationInView: CGPoint)