I was just watching Etho's modded episode (https://youtu.be/T3fceIoQsE4) where he introduced Peripherals++ to his series, and he had this idea that the custom NPCs you can make with the Custom NPCs mod should be able to communicate with computercraft via the chat.

If you're not familiar with custom NPCs then it's a mod that lets you make custom NPCs (surprise surprise) but also lets you script them, like entity turtles.

Would be cool if you could tap into the NPCs API (if they have one) and have the ChatBox listen to their chat messages as well.

Link to Custom NPCs: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1278956-custom-npcs

Hey, I agree that this would be a very cool feature. However, the lack of functionality there is most likely a problem on CustomNPC's side. The chatbox listens for all chat events. If the chatbox is not picking up on CustomNPC's messages, then an event is not being fired by the mod. I was also unable to find source code or an API for the mod, so you'll have to take it over to them.

Oh, I had sent Noppes a message about that, and he made a version from him that fixes that about half an hour ago. For anyone that wants it, it is on the CurseForge page for CustomNPC's.

I have just released a tweak mod to fix this, download it here: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods/229901-customnpc-tweaks

@Selim042 Are you sure about that? Last release was a week ago and for 1.8...
http://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods/221826-custom-npcs/files

He was too hasty
http://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods/221826-custom-npcs/files/2235567

Thanks Noppes! Glad you added that.

At the time, the one he sent me was version d, so when I looked on the CurseForge, I saw version d, and didn't look at release date. Glad its up there now though.