textCreateTextItem

[TorNix~|nR]

Hello guys, I have a problem, I have this jail system and I added textCreateTextItem to start counting the left jail time

but it didn't work

local jailtime = jailLeftTimer[thePlayer]
local remaining = getTimerDetails(jailtime)
local display = textCreateDisplay ()

	if (jailtime) and (isTimer(jailtime)) then
local text = textCreateTextItem("["..math.floor(remaining/1000).."]", 0.15, 0.53, "high", 150, 0, 0, 255, 2, "right", "bottom")
textDisplayAddText(display, text)
textDisplayAddObserver(display, thePlayer)
	end

I made a command that works fine but only with command

addCommandHandler( "jailtime", 
function (thePlayer)
	local jailtime = jailLeftTimer[thePlayer]
	if (jailtime) and (isTimer(jailtime)) then
		local remaining = getTimerDetails(jailtime)
		outputChatBox("You have ["..math.floor(remaining/1000).."] left for your jail time.", thePlayer, 0, 255, 0, true)
	end
end)

I want to make the textCreateTextItem work, help please

by the way, the textCreateTextItem shows only the first left seconds example [200] and it stucks there and never change

Edited January 18, 2021 by TorNix~|nR

[SpecT]

textCreateTextItem displays static text.
It's not like rendering dxDrawText with onClientRender.

To make it work use textItemSetText(text, ...) with a timer (per 1 second maybe?).

Edited January 18, 2021 by SpecT

[TorNix~|nR]

I tried making a timer but didn't know how to make it

I tried this but it's the same, stuck at the same remaining time

local jailtime = jailLeftTimer[source]
if (jailtime) and (isTimer(jailtime)) then
local remaining = getTimerDetails(jailtime)
local display = textCreateDisplay()			
local text = textCreateTextItem("", 0.15, 0.53, "high", 150, 0, 0, 255, 2, "right", "bottom")
textDisplayAddText(display, text)
textDisplayAddObserver(display, source)
textItemSetText(text, math.floor(remaining/1000))
end

 

[SpecT]

updateTimer = setTimer(function() 
	textItemSetText(text, math.floor(remaining/1000))
    end,1000,0)


-- when the player gets out of the jail
if isTimer(updateTimer) then
	killTimer(updateTimer)
end

This will create a timer which will trigger the setText function per 1 second so the player will see in real time how much time left to wait.
And put the killTimer where you take the player out of jail.

Feel free to ask if you can't understand something. 

Edited January 19, 2021 by SpecT

[TorNix~|nR]

It's finally working, thank you so much.

[SpecT]

4 minutes ago, TorNix~|nR said:

It's finally working, thank you so much.

You're welcome!