Need to increase the timeout for TypingAnimation

@compulim: Please see “How to fix” below, https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/issues/2031#issuecomment-510964209.

Feature request

I need to increase the timeout of the typing animation shown by the bot. Currently, the bot typing animation disappears after 2 sec or so. I need to increase to 6 sec. I tried following the approach of setting SendTimeout explicitly but it doesn’t seem to work.

  window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
                directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({
                    token: params['s'],
                    userID: params['username'],
                    user: {id: params['userid']},          
                }),
                store, username: params['username'],
                userID: params['userid'], **sendTimeout: 60000**,
                styleSet,
                sendTypingIndicator: true,
            },
            document.getElementById("webchat")
        );

Any idea of how can I Increase the timeout for typing Animation.

(Edited by @compulim for code formatting)

[marq47]

Hi! We need this feature too. Thanks for your work on it.

[compulim]

How to fix

Implementation

• Today, we use saga to control how long to show typing
  • “How long” is a question on UI, not back end. Thus, the better design is to move it away from saga
• Tomorrow
  • Use debounce in UI to control how long to show typing
  • Move typing indicator into send box
    • This will greatly reduce code complexity
  • Add typingIndicatorTimeout to styleOptions

Tests

• Basic test
  • Default value
  • Non-default value
  • New activity from bot come in and it should immediately remove typing indicator
• Corner cases
  • After the typing indicator “faded away”, setting styleOptions.typingIndicatorTimeout to a bigger value should bring it back