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Hey, so, I would like to make a GTA like (it sounds strange) notification system, something like you can see in every singleplayer GTA, the upper left hand corner box notifications: I have the base script, everything renders and works fine, but I would like to make a special "timer" for it, which works like the following way: the longer the text is, the longer the notification lasts. This is one thing I would like to make, the other thing is: how is it possibble to make an export function for this, so I can make notifications from other resources with the text I give in the resource I'm calling it back from. I don't really understand tables and loops, I would be so happy if somebody could help me! I hope you can understand me, and what I am trying to do and explain, thanks for the help in advance! local displayWidth, displayHeight = guiGetScreenSize(); local borderDistance = 20 local tipBox = { string = "asfasfasafaasfasfasafsafsfasfasafsasfasfafsafssafasfsdwadsadwqwdasdasfasasafsaf" } local boxX, boxY = borderDistance * displayWidth / displayWidth, borderDistance * displayHeight / displayHeight local boxPadding = 10 local lineHeight = dxGetFontHeight( 1, "default-bold" ) local minimumWidth = 350 local offsetWidth = 25 addEventHandler( "onClientRender", root, function( ) local lines = 0 local wordbreak = false local lineWidth = dxGetTextWidth( tipBox.string, 1, "default-bold" ) while ( lineWidth + offsetWidth > minimumWidth ) do lineWidth = lineWidth - minimumWidth lines = lines + 1 wordbreak = true end local boxWidth, boxHeight = minimumWidth + ( boxPadding * 3 ), ( lineHeight * ( lines + 1 ) ) + ( boxPadding * 2 ) dxDrawRectangle( boxX, boxY, boxWidth, boxHeight, tocolor( 0, 0, 0, 180 ), true ) dxDrawRectangle( boxX, boxY+boxHeight, boxWidth, 4, tocolor( 200, 0, 100, 255 ), true ) local textX, textY = boxX + boxPadding, boxY + boxPadding local textWidth, textHeight = textX + minimumWidth + boxPadding, textY + lineHeight + boxPadding dxDrawText( tipBox.string, textX, textY, textWidth, textHeight, tocolor( 255, 255, 255, 255 ), 1, "default-bold", "left", "top", false, wordbreak, true ) end )