Suggestion: Putting custom events on the global event queue

[bitapparat]

Hi! I found no api to achieve this, thus i'd like to put up a suggestion for it.

I want to show an alert triggered by chat messages, but chat commands and keywords are too limited/rigid for this. Thus i'm using a widget that reacts to messages instead. This works, but i want the alert to not overlap with follower or subscriber alerts and as far as i understand message events don't arrive on the global event queue.
Is there any way for me to put a custom event for my alert onto the global event queue to prevent overlap with other alerts?

The alternative would be to handle follower and subscriber alerts in the widget, too, and to implement a custom queue. But that seems excessive for such a simple and not very exotic use case.

Any other suggestions on how to achieve this are welcome, too.

[c4ldas]

You can use widgetDuration and resumeQueue so it can hold the notifications. You basically create an entry on FIELDS tab called widgetDuration with value of the maximum duration you want to pause the alerts, when your code is triggered.

{
  "widgetDuration": {
    "type": "hidden",
    "value": 15
  }
}

In your code, when the alert is finished, you call SE_API.resumeQueue() method to resume it again.
More information here:
https://docs.streamelements.com/overlays/custom-widget#resumequeue-method-and-widgetduration-property

[bitapparat]

You can use widgetDuration and resumeQueue so it can hold the notifications.

Thank you for the reply, but as far as i understand "message" events don't arrive on the queue so widgetDuration and resumeQueue have no effect in this case.