[Editing CEGUI colors]

You can change it locally.

C:\Program Files\MTA San Andreas\MTA\cgui\CGUI.png

But if you want to change it for other users too, you need to write custom GUI (using images etc.)

There *could* be an option, kinda like server setting to enforce other CGUI.png on clients, but it's not possible at the moment. Search in bugs.mtasa.com if there is such issue, if not, create it The main way to suggest features.

[Cruise control script?]

The problem that I pointed out is still there..

he's doing

.sqrt(blah) local variable = math.

which is really weird, as it should be

local variable = math.sqrt(blah)

[Car options menu (engine state, lights, etc.)]

I just speed-read the script, it seems to be EXACTLY what I'm after, though I honestly want to learn how to script that kind of stuff.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, I pasted the code into the Script Editor, and there are tons of "unexpected symbol" errors and a few " expected near end" errors.

You did switch line numbers off before copying, right? Or didn't you?

@Solidsnake, it's hard to read the code with such indenting..

[Forum avatars failed]

I don't see them either anymore. Can't say I miss them though

[Car options menu (engine state, lights, etc.)]

What is the point of posting a complete script which he can just blindly copy-paste and then ask for a new one, instead of spending some time to answer his problems so next time he wouldn't have to ask anymore.

[Increasing loop length?]

Well how much data is lots of data? And if it's really optimised code, you should maybe break the loops up

I'm not sure if this would work, but worth a try imo

local n = 1
local steps = 20
for n,n+steps do 
--whatever you do
n = n + steps
end
for n,n+steps do
n = n+steps
end

etc.

so it would effectively do the whole loop but would be several loops so it wouldn't time out

[Drawtag script video with MTA feature request]

string.char possibly

[New player auto-team script??]

Doesn't matter if he copied, you posted it into help sector

But Blackvein, please DO read the whole thread https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtop ... 91&t=28300 . There is a working autoteam script there (from where you copied only a few lines)

[createobject]

Don't pass. It's the most basic thing with commands/even gui windows

local active = false
function yourFunction()
if not active then -- if it isn't active yet, only then
-- your code, which starts stuff
	active = true -- set it to active, so it couldn't get duplicated
end
end
function yourSecondFunction()
if active then -- only run, if it's active
-- your code, which ends stuff here
	active = false -- as things have been shut down, you can now set it to inactive again
end
end

And when you start something, you call yourFunction, when ending it, yourSecondFunction

[Proper way of asking questions (READ before asking for help)]

But you just did read it I presume

Nah, really, I don't think that anyone cba to read it, really, but maybe someone will, and even then the post wasn't entirely useless.

[Proper way of asking questions (READ before asking for help)]

Interesting thread. If someone wants to have a longer read on the topic, here's one link a guy on another forum gave me (when I asked questions unhelpful way, a long time ago )

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[GUI Problem]

That's kinda logical. It's not like SAMP, where server shows client gui It has to be a client side script, not server side. Wiki states aswell that gui functions are clientside not serverside.

[Global tables]

tables work exactly like any other variable. Let's say you have a server side variable serverVar = "niceHair". It can be called from server side scripts of that resource. Same case if you had a server side table serverTable = {}. You can operate with it only server side.

[dx players list]

Or you could cache the player list in a table on resource start and every time someone joins/leaves, you modify the table, so you wouldn't have to getElementsByType("player") every frame.

local players = {} -- make it local to the file, not necessary, but I like
function cachePlayers() 
for k, v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do
	players[k] = v
end
end
 
function addPlayer()
table.insert(players,source)
end
function removePlayer()
for k,v in ipairs(players) do
if v == source then
table.remove(players,k)
return
end
end
end	
function drawList()
for num,this_player in ipairs(players) do
local plname = getPlayerName(this_player)
dxDrawText(plname,100,100+num*16) --num increases with each cycle, so every name is drawn under previous name
end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender",root,drawList)
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",resourceRoot,cachePlayers)
addEventHandler("onClientPlayerJoin",root,addPlayer) -- add a player into the table when someone joins
addEventHandler("onClientPlayerQuit",root,removePlayer) -- remove a player from table if he quits

It's slightly more complicated but should be faster. Not much, but if you have lot's of stuff going on onClientRender, things should be optimized.

[string.find problem]

When you use [] in string functions, it defines a new set

http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial look for sets.

So when using string.find(stringa,"[abc]") it returns if either a, b or c is found. In order to fix it, you need to escape [ and ]. I think they can be escaped with %[ and %] but I'm not sure.

[max car counter problem]

Alright, in that case I want to know your clientside script. What are you passing as root element in triggerServerEvent

[file Function in a table]

iirc in registry.db in server/mods/deathmatch directory

[[HELP] Problem with xmlLoadFile.]

Try this.

Before doing the xmlLoadFile, output to chat fileExists("connect.xml") just to make sure MTA recognises the file.

If it returns true, try having the xml file as

<connect></connect>

instead of just

<connect/>

Maybe it wants the root node to be like that. Also maybe it doesn't like attributes for the root node. Just see if it loads the file. These are just "maybes" which you should try. I'm not really sure what could be the problem there.

EDIT: And just a tip, instead of checking, if the file is nil and if the file is false, use just

if not File then end

, because not nil and not false both return true

[The big CTRL+V topic.]

http://www.ladypenelopeltd.co.uk/contact-us.html

[Flag ped?]

Are you using some online translator? It's really hard to understand what you mean.

[Reading file line by line]

MTA has also a builtin function split for the job.

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Split

[creat water]

Can't see much point in creating water outside SA map, it's all water there anyway, isn't it?

[Reading file line by line]

You just read the whole file in for example and then split it from newlines.

[[REL] Rodeggo - Translation resource 0.1]

Alright. There's the definitions.xml file in the resource

Inside that, there are two languages defined, ENG and EST

You can define something else (preferable keep ENG as the first, it's essential for the resource to work). Just duplicate the ENG part and change it for example to FIN. Now translate the strings. You can always add new strings aswell, but you need to make sure that the first (ENG) has all the strings listed. The others don't have to have. The resource="rodeggo" part means that the string is meant to be called from rodeggo resource. You have to change it to any other resource you are using (or use a bit different importing)

Now in a random resource, you need to define

myStringArray = exports.rodeggo:importStrings()

Then you can use them like

outputChatBox(myStringArray.SOMESTRINGID)

SOMESTRINGID is the string name in definitions.xml

And when you switch languages with "/setlang ENG", "/setlang FIN" then outputChatBox should output different strings.

If you want to access strings which don't belong to that resource, you need to do

myStringArray = exports.rodeggo:importStrings(resourcename)

resourcename is the same as in string tag resource="" in definitions.xml

You can check the source of the resource as well, there should be one commented out example.

[[REL] Rodeggo - Translation resource 0.1]

No. The idea of this resource was that client could choose his/her own language and then they would be translated, not that a scripter defines in which language the current string comes.