robhol

You don't use mIRC scripts in 1.0.

If I'd let users to choose their own paths I'd have to redesign lots of stuff that is not going to happen any time soon. For instance: - There is a button "Start client and connect to local server" - which server should it connect to? - There is a button "Start server" - which server should it start? - There is a window "MTA Server configuration" - which server do you want to configure? It's not that I can change a few lines of code and it's done... It requires lots of changes. Besides, I don't know anyone that runs more then 1 local server to test their resources. Why would you want more than 1 server running on your home internet connection anyway? If that's all, you could open the settings form and add ONE text box, an "open directory" or "browse file" dialog as well as a button to open the latter. Unless you have some kind of profoundly illogical way of finding paths, all of this could rather easily be changed to work from the current directory instead of whatever directory is already there, and unless you refer to that path from like fifty different hardcoded locations, I don't see how replacing it would be hard nor time-consuming. On another note, I recommend either making this project open-source (more developers, faster progress, more features,) or at least not refusing people who offer to help for no reason.

I'm noticing there's still no way to select the server directory. I think you may have "misunderestimated" its importance in a setting where there are more than one server directory on a computer.

Argument names in lua are not significant - it's the order in which they're passed that matters. When a command is entered, its handler function will be called like this: someFunction( sender, commandName, argument1, argument2, ... ) The cmd has to be there, even if you don't use it, simply because that's how MTA calls the function. If it's not there, you'll get all arguments "shifted" and each variable will contain something quite different than what you expected. If this doesn't make sense, wait for a few hours and I'll try to make it clearer.. I'm sleepy.

To be honest, this sounds ridiculously far-fetched. MTA is for PCs running Windows, not consoles running OSes they're not intended to. And as Gamesnert said, the control/UI issues themselves would create a lot of trouble. Besides from that, it'd take ridiculous amounts of work getting it to run on a linux system running somewhere it's not, strictly speaking, supposed to. XBox is also quite outdated by now, and I imagine its popularity is falling at a steady rate. Play the PC version and be happy.

- IE is unsafe compared to all other major browsers. Both FF and especially Opera own IE, security-wise. - IE is incapable of displaying CSS properly, unless it's in compatibility mode or whatever. This raises the need for webdesigners to create ugly hacks and alternative stylesheets. - IE is slooooooooooow compared to Opera and FF. - IE is insinuated into a lot of M$' products. For example (let's overlook, for the moment, the simple fact that it's bundled with Windows,) every time you check your mail in, for example, Windows Live Messenger, the window opens in IE, not your default browser. - Security. Again. IE supports ActiveX which is a veritable open door to anyone who wants to do nasty things to your system. These are a few reasons why I think IE sucks.

Of course it's a bump, duh. And that SE was so unstable the last time I tested it that I'll give it a LOT more time before I even consider half-seriously as something I'll let anywhere near my server...

How about a little update?

THis is not an OS debate. I use Windows by choice, because that's where you have a vast majority of apps, games and users. I've given several unix/linux distroes a try, and I'd really rather keep using Windows - however, IE does suck, and there are several very good alternatives.

Talking about VS; how about making two of the most useful functions I've seen in there? Both would fit rather nicely in a function context menu if there is such a thing. The first would be Go To Definition - as the name says, it finds, scrolls to and highlights the function definition. The second would be Find All References which finds all references (dur) to the given symbol, function, variable, etc. and presents them in a nice list.

Make sure that your tag is set to 1 in mtaserver.conf - after that, let the server stay on until it's registered by Game-monitor. Be warned: It takes fucking ages.

Yeah, that's more like it.

I guess voices in your head could be just a little disturbing too, though..

Dude, don't be a ****ing IE flamer. It's called universal compatibility for a reason. IE is shit, sorry. It really is. Whatever you mean with "universal compatibility" is beyond me, seeing as IE/M$ has a history of inventing their own standards as opposed to working with existing ones.

Open mtaserver.conf and set to 0.

A: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUU... Q: 42?

* robhol killed Scarface (You're-doing-it-wrong stick) (Head)

Didn't you read the link I gave you earlier? http://robhol.net/guide/basics/

No, it was definitely someone else. Multiplayer roulette in MTA, lol..

I didn't. Nub. *runs* On a more serious note, this does look very difficult to script - there's a lot of quite complex calculations involved, for one thing, and hooking up input and animations properly could also be quite a challenge. All in all I'd say it's not really worth the effort.

It doesn't work that way, sorry. You can't just waltz into a forum and expect everybody there to write free scripts on demand for you. I suggest you learn scripting for yourself, it's not that hard. http://robhol.net/guide/basics https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/index.ph ... =Main_Page

Of course not, but I still think users should be able to voice their opinion in a more structured manner.

Since the other thread is a random jumble of mixed pro and con arguments, I figured I'd make a poll here to see how many are for reenabling signatures on the forum.

I had this problem a lot on my old DP2 server. I haven't seen ONE crash so far in 1.0. Maybe it's your scripts?

Remove the source argument from the function - you don't need to define it.