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He wants to keep everything active even if user closes the browser window.

Sounds legit

Still I don't understand why players can't just download the needed files from their original directories.

I've been wondering about this for a while now. Why's the 'resources-cache' folder even created? As far as I see it has all client files from resources and maps. But, again, why? It makes a copy of it all and adds a huge amount of MB to my server's size. Just server is 670MB, with the resources-cache it's 1.20GB and that folder just has copies of scripts. Clarification is welcome

Make the positions of everything look ok for YOUR resolution only (just numbers, no multiplications). Then post your code and say on what resolution you've made it. I'll take a look then and try to fix it for any screen. Btw what's that "isMouseSetColor" thing? I can't find it on the wiki.

Try this, I can't really test but this is the way I make all my dxDrawText show ok on any screen. local x, y = guiGetScreenSize() local sx, sy = x/1440, y/900 local coloracc local colordec function jobwindow() if isMouseSetColor (x*0.26302083, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03425926) then coloracc = tocolor(0, 153, 0, 255) end if isMouseSetColor (x*0.36979167, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03425926) then colordec = tocolor(255, 0, 0, 255) end dxSetAspectRatioAdjustmentEnabled(true) dxDrawImage(x*0.1859375, y*0.14907407, x*0.2864583, y*0.4167, imagepath, 0, 0, 0, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), false) dxDrawText("Accept", x*0.26302083, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03426, coloracc, 1*sy, newFont, "left", "top", false, false, false, false, false) dxDrawRectangle(x*0.26302083, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03426, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 0), false) dxDrawText("Decline", x*0.36979167, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03426, colordec, 1*sy, newFont, "left", "top", false, false, false, false, false) dxDrawRectangle(x*0.36979167, y*0.48056, x*0.039583, y*0.03426, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 0), false) coloracc = tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255) colordec = tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255) end EDIT: Your code can work too I think but you've made a mistake in the text size. 1.00*sx should be 1.00*sy in lines 9 and 11 of your first post's code.

Floating point number = 0.12345 etc. Try doing those calculations and replacing the values with screenW*float and screenH*float. I'll try fix it for you once i get on my pc but try yourself first with the way i described.

It should be where you want it to be

Well today there was no lag but I put the setTimer in the "addDates" function which is tied to the "onClientResourceStart" event handler just in case. This way I think the timer will get set just once, on client player join.

I tried your code but still got the same "server triggered clientside event drawBday but event is not added clientside". I worked on it a bit and made everything be client side. local screenW, screenH = guiGetScreenSize() local px,py = 1600,900 local x,y = (screenW/px), (screenH/py) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- local time = getRealTime() local bday = false local age = false local nick = false ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function dxDrawBday() if time.monthday == bday.day and time.month+1 == bday.month then dxDrawText(nick:gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', '').." turned "..age.." today!", screenW * 0.0000+1, screenH * 0.1648+1, screenW * 1.0000+1, screenH * 0.3861+1, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 1*y, "bankgothic", "center", "center", false, false, false, false, false) dxDrawText(nick.." #FFFFFFturned "..age.." today!", screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.1648, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3861, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1*y, "bankgothic", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end setTimer(function() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, dxDrawBday) end, 23000, 1) end addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, dxDrawBday) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function addDates() if time.monthday == 11 and time.month+1 == 2 then bday = { day = time.monthday, month = time.month+1, year = 1997 } age = time.year+1900 - bday.year nick = "#00FF00[SiK]#FEFE22Megas" else bday = { day = 0, month = 0, year = 0 } age = 0 nick = "0" end end addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart", root, addDates) But there was a time when I kept randomly losing my FPS (from 60 to 50, even to 42 once!) and I'm not sure if it's because of my code^ or just because I haven't restarted MTA for a long time (sometimes I lag because of this). When I restarted my server and my MTA it seems like it's fixed but I still wanted to ask, is anything in my code above maybe responsible for making those FPS drops or it's just because I haven't restarted my game after all those resource restarts and reconnects.

You're welcome.

Last night in 2 AM a brillian idea came to mind, why not make a script which displays to all players that join when a certain player has a birthday on screen with dxDrawText? I know that for that to work I need events as dxDrawText is a client function only. But even though I added the event to my client-side the server still doesn't see it. Can anyone help with this? Client-Side local screenW, screenH = guiGetScreenSize() local px,py = 1600,900 local x,y = (screenW/px), (screenH/py) addEvent("drawBday", true) function dxDrawBday(nick, age) dxDrawText(nick.." #FFFFFFturned "..age.." today!", screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.1648, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3861, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1*y, "bankgothic", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) if isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, dxDrawBday) == false then addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, dxDrawBday) end setTimer(stopDrawingBday,5000,1) end addEventHandler("drawBday", root, dxDrawBday) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function stopDrawingBday() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, dxDrawBday) end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function isEventHandlerAdded(sEventName, pElementAttachedTo, func) if type(sEventName) == 'string' and isElement(pElementAttachedTo) and type(func) == 'function' then local aAttachedFunctions = getEventHandlers(sEventName, pElementAttachedTo) if type(aAttachedFunctions) == 'table' and #aAttachedFunctions > 0 then for i, v in ipairs(aAttachedFunctions) do if v == func then return true end end end end return false end Server-Side local time = getRealTime() local bday = false local age = false local nick = false function BdayText() if time.monthday == 17 and time.month+1 == 12 then bday = { day = 17, month = 12, year = 1997 } age = time.year+1900 - bday.year nick = "#00FF00[SiK]#FEFE22Megas" end if time.monthday == bday.day and time.month+1 == bday.month then --outputChatBox(nick.." #FFFFFFturned "..age.." today!", source, 255, 255, 255, true) triggerClientEvent(source, "drawBday", source, nick, age) end end addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", root, BdayText)

I don't know what you mean by "other hud". Anyway, see line 111 and a bit below it here. You can choose which parts to hide and can also do it either with a command or when some resource starts or whenever you want to hide it. Up to your imagination.

@Best-Killer follow this example and it'll work for sure. I also tried with the way you're trying and i couldn't see the text i wanted to fix until i used the method with the floating point numbers (I'm on 1920x1080 btw).

Full working code: (delayindicator_client.lua) local screenW, screenH = guiGetScreenSize() local x, y = screenW/1440, screenH/900 local lastDelayTime = false local lastOptional = false local coloredName = false local blackName = false local sourcecp = false ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- addEvent("showDelay", true) addEventHandler("showDelay", root, function(delayTime, optional) lastDelayTime = delayTime lastOptional = optional coloredName = addTeamColor(source) blackName = getPlayerName(source):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', '') sourcecp = getElementData(source, "race.checkpoint") if tonumber(optional) then if isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawMinusPlayerText) == false and isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawPlusTopText) == false and isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawMinusTopText) == false then addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawMinusPlayerText) end setTimer(function() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawMinusPlayerText) end, 2000, 1, source) elseif type(optional) == "table" then if delayTime < 0 then if isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawPlusTopText) == false then addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawPlusTopText) end setTimer(function() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawPlusTopText) end, 2000, 1, source) elseif delayTime > 0 then if isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawMinusTopText) == false then addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawMinusTopText) end setTimer(function() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawMinusTopText) end, 2000, 1, source) end else if isEventHandlerAdded("onClientRender", root, drawPlusPlayerText) == false then addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawPlusPlayerText) end setTimer(function() removeEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawPlusPlayerText) end, 2000, 1, source) end end ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function drawPlusTopText() if type(lastOptional) == "table" then dxDrawText("#000000+"..msToTimeStr(-lastDelayTime).." record #"..lastOptional[1], screenW * 0.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3667 + 1, screenW * 1.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3954 + 1, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) dxDrawText("#FFFF00+"..msToTimeStr(-lastDelayTime).." record #"..lastOptional[1], screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3667, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3954, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function drawMinusTopText() if type(lastOptional) == "table" then dxDrawText("#000000-"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." record #"..lastOptional[1], screenW * 0.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3667 + 1, screenW * 1.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3954 + 1, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) dxDrawText("#00FFFF-"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." record #"..lastOptional[1], screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3667, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3954, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function drawMinusPlayerText() if tonumber(lastOptional) then local cps = getElementData(localPlayer, "race.checkpoint") - lastOptional if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(-"..cps.." CPs) " end dxDrawText("#000000-"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." "..cps..blackName, screenW * 0.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3667 + 1, screenW * 1.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3954 + 1, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) dxDrawText("#00FF00-"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." "..cps.."#FFFFFF"..coloredName, screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3667, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3954, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function drawPlusPlayerText() local cps = sourcecp - getElementData(localPlayer, "race.checkpoint") if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(+"..cps.." CPs) " end dxDrawText("#000000+"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." "..cps..blackName, screenW * 0.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3667 + 1, screenW * 1.0000 + 1, screenH * 0.3954 + 1, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) dxDrawText("#FF0000+"..msToTimeStr(lastDelayTime).." "..cps.."#FFFFFF"..coloredName, screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3667, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3954, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.2*y, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function isEventHandlerAdded(sEventName, pElementAttachedTo, func) if type(sEventName) == 'string' and isElement(pElementAttachedTo) and type(func) == 'function' then local aAttachedFunctions = getEventHandlers(sEventName, pElementAttachedTo) if type(aAttachedFunctions) == 'table' and #aAttachedFunctions > 0 then for i, v in ipairs(aAttachedFunctions) do if v == func then return true end end end end return false end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function msToTimeStr(ms) if not ms then return '' end local centiseconds = tostring(math.floor(math.fmod(ms, 1000))) if #centiseconds == 2 then centiseconds = '0'..centiseconds elseif #centiseconds == 1 then centiseconds = '00'..centiseconds end local s = math.floor(ms / 1000) local seconds = tostring(math.fmod(s, 60)) if #seconds == 1 then seconds = '0' .. seconds end local minutes = tostring(math.floor(s / 60)) return minutes .. ':' .. seconds .. ':' .. centiseconds end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Exported function for settings menu, KaliBwoy function showCPDelays() triggerServerEvent( "onClientShowCPDelays", resourceRoot ) end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function hideCPDelays() triggerServerEvent( "onClientHideCPDelays", resourceRoot ) end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function addTeamColor(player) local playerTeam = getPlayerTeam ( player ) if ( playerTeam ) then local r,g,b = getTeamColor ( playerTeam ) local n1 = toHex(r) local n2 = toHex(g) local n3 = toHex(b) if r <= 16 then n1 = "0"..n1 end if g <= 16 then n2 = "0"..n2 end if b <= 16 then n3 = "0"..n3 end return "#"..n1..""..n2..""..n3..""..getPlayerNametagText(player) else return getPlayerNametagText(player) end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function toHex(n) local hexnums = {"0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7", "8","9","A","B","C","D","E","F"} local str,r = "",n%16 if n-r == 0 then str = hexnums[r+1] else str = toHex((n-r)/16)..hexnums[r+1] end return str end

@dugasz1 looks like it's working Thanks mate (nice hax with the saving xd)!

Is it possible to somehow ignore color codes in ESC-Settings when you set your nickname? I mean, now if you type one color code it takes up 7 spaces from the nickname's slot. Would be great if the space for nick gets used only for the nickname itself (not the colorcodes). Like if it sees '#' and 6 hex symbols after it, it would not count that space as used for the nickname. Idk if that made sense but can't really explain it better Ofc I mean all of this - in 1.6

Yea I know that would work normally but here I actually need to draw the " delayTime" and the "optional" variables, which are only accessible in the function tied to " showDelay ". So in other words, I can't draw it in another function and just add/remove event handlers So, really, no idea what to do to make this work...

Did this and still same, half a second and rip text. local screenW, screenH = guiGetScreenSize() addEvent("showDelay", true) function drawText(delayTime, optional) if tonumber(optional) then local cps = getElementData(g_Me, "race.checkpoint") - optional if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(-"..cps.."CPs) " end delayDisplayBehind:text("-"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." "..cps..string.gsub(getPlayerName(source), "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "")) delayDisplayBehind:visible(true) behindTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, false) elseif type(optional) == "table" then if delayTime < 0 then --delayDisplayFront:text("+"..msToTimeStr(-delayTime).." record #"..optional[1]) dxDrawText("#FEFE22+"..msToTimeStr(-delayTime).." record #"..optional[1], screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3657, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3972, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.5, "default", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) elseif delayTime > 0 then --delayDisplayFront:text("-"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." record #"..optional[1]) dxDrawText("#00FFFF-"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." record #"..optional[1], screenW * 0.0000, screenH * 0.3657, screenW * 1.0000, screenH * 0.3972, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.00, "default", "center", "center", false, false, false, true, false) end --delayDisplayFront:visible(true) frontTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, true) else --[[local cps = getElementData(source, "race.checkpoint") - getElementData(g_Me, "race.checkpoint") if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(+"..cps.."CPs) " end delayDisplayFront:text("+"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." "..cps..string.gsub(getPlayerName(source), "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "")) delayDisplayFront:color(255, 0, 0) delayDisplayFront:visible(true) frontTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, true)--]] end end addEventHandler("showDelay", g_Root, drawText) addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawText)

I just replaced line 33 and line 37 with dxDrawText and deleted lines 34, 38 and 40. I got rid of " delayDisplayFront " and replaced all lines in which text was being drawn with dxDrawText lines.

Thanks, I tried adding "onClientRender" to the function that draws it but still same result.

Whenever I try to put any kind of dxDrawText in that file it just draws it for less than a second and then text vanishes. Why? There are no errors, I replaced all needed things to dxDrawText lines and still it only draws it for half a second or less... Below is the original code, no idea what I gotta do so that it leaves dxDrawText stuff stay on-screen for longer. local g_Root = getRootElement() local g_ResRoot = getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()) local g_Me = getLocalPlayer() local DISTANCE_FRONT_BEHIND = 0.03 local SCALE = 1.5 local TIME_TO_DISPLAY = 2000 local frontTick local behindTick local delayDisplayFront = dxText:create("", 0.5, 0.37, true, "default", SCALE) local delayDisplayBehind = dxText:create("", 0.5, 0.43, true, "default", SCALE) delayDisplayFront:color(255, 0, 0) delayDisplayBehind:color(0, 255, 0) addEvent("showDelay", true) addEventHandler("showDelay", g_Root, function(delayTime, optional) if tonumber(optional) then local cps = getElementData(g_Me, "race.checkpoint") - optional if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(-"..cps.."CPs) " end delayDisplayBehind:text("-"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." "..cps..string.gsub(getPlayerName(source), "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "")) delayDisplayBehind:visible(true) behindTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, false) elseif type(optional) == "table" then if delayTime < 0 then -- outputChatBox("-"..msToTimeStr(-delayTime).." current record") delayDisplayFront:text("+"..msToTimeStr(-delayTime).." record #"..optional[1]) delayDisplayFront:color(255, 255, 0) elseif delayTime > 0 then -- outputChatBox("+"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." current record") delayDisplayFront:text("-"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." record #"..optional[1]) delayDisplayFront:color(0, 255, 255) end delayDisplayFront:visible(true) frontTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, true) else local cps = getElementData(source, "race.checkpoint") - getElementData(g_Me, "race.checkpoint") if cps < 2 then cps = "" else cps = "(+"..cps.."CPs) " end delayDisplayFront:text("+"..msToTimeStr(delayTime).." "..cps..string.gsub(getPlayerName(source), "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "")) delayDisplayFront:color(255, 0, 0) delayDisplayFront:visible(true) frontTick = getTickCount() setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, true) end end ) function hideDelayDisplay(front) if front == "both" then delayDisplayFront:visible(false) delayDisplayBehind:visible(false) elseif front then local pastTime = getTickCount() - frontTick if pastTime >= TIME_TO_DISPLAY then delayDisplayFront:visible(false) else if pastTime < 50 then pastTime = 50 end setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, pastTime, 1, true) -- outputChatBox("front dalassen") end else local pastTime = getTickCount() - behindTick if pastTime >= TIME_TO_DISPLAY then delayDisplayBehind:visible(false) else if pastTime < 50 then pastTime = 50 end setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, pastTime, 1, false) -- outputChatBox("behind dalassen") end end end addEventHandler('onClientResourceStart', g_ResRoot, function() local settingsFile = xmlLoadFile("settings.xml") if settingsFile then local pos = xmlNodeGetAttributes(settingsFile) delayDisplayFront:position(pos.x, pos.y - DISTANCE_FRONT_BEHIND) delayDisplayBehind:position(pos.x, pos.y + DISTANCE_FRONT_BEHIND) else settingsFile = xmlCreateFile("settings.xml","settings") xmlNodeSetAttribute(settingsFile,"x",0.5) xmlNodeSetAttribute(settingsFile,"y",0.4) end xmlSaveFile(settingsFile) xmlUnloadFile(settingsFile) end ) addCommandHandler("setdelaypos", function(cmd,x,y) if x and y then if tonumber(x) and tonumber(y) then delayDisplayFront:position(x, y - DISTANCE_FRONT_BEHIND) delayDisplayBehind:position(x, y + DISTANCE_FRONT_BEHIND) delayDisplayFront:text("FRONT") delayDisplayBehind:text("BEHIND") delayDisplayFront:color(255, 0, 0) delayDisplayBehind:color(0, 255, 0) delayDisplayFront:visible(true) delayDisplayBehind:visible(true) setTimer(hideDelayDisplay, TIME_TO_DISPLAY, 1, "both") local settingsFile = xmlLoadFile("settings.xml") if settingsFile then xmlNodeSetAttribute(settingsFile,"x",x) xmlNodeSetAttribute(settingsFile,"y",y) end xmlSaveFile(settingsFile) xmlUnloadFile(settingsFile) else outputChatBox("WRONG PARAMETERS! Syntax is /setdelaypos x y", 255, 0, 0) end else outputChatBox("WRONG PARAMETERS! Syntax is /setdelaypos x y", 255, 0, 0) end end ) function msToTimeStr(ms) if not ms then return '' end local centiseconds = tostring(math.floor(math.fmod(ms, 1000))) if #centiseconds == 2 then centiseconds = '0'..centiseconds elseif #centiseconds == 1 then centiseconds = '00'..centiseconds end local s = math.floor(ms / 1000) local seconds = tostring(math.fmod(s, 60)) if #seconds == 1 then seconds = '0' .. seconds end local minutes = tostring(math.floor(s / 60)) return minutes .. ':' .. seconds .. ':' .. centiseconds end -- Exported function for settings menu, KaliBwoy function showCPDelays() triggerServerEvent( "onClientShowCPDelays", resourceRoot ) end function hideCPDelays() triggerServerEvent( "onClientHideCPDelays", resourceRoot ) end

Didn't know some keyboards don't have that. Then I better leave it as it is or people will be screwed

Pretty much what the title says, is there a way to disable the Console showing when a player presses F8? I want to use that key to show this window. Console can also be opened with the ~ key which is just before the number 1 on the main keyboard so I don't need it on F8 as well (taking up precious buttons for other scripts).

Note: The values for group and index can be determined by using the client command showsound in conjunction with setDevelopmentMode