meta settings problem

[Hydra]

So I made a setting in meta but it's not working when I change the values. What I did wrong?

meta.xml

    <settings>
		<setting name="*outputNewsTimer" value="10000"
			friendlyname="Messages Timer"
			group="General"
			accept="100,10000,50000"
			desc="set news timer" />
	</settings>

server.lua

local timerMessages = get("outputNewsTimer")

function showMessages()
   if timerMessages then
   local randomMsg = messages[math.random(1, #messages)]
   outputChatBox("#FFBB00[NEWS]: #FFFfff"..randomMsg.."", root, 255, 255, 255, true)
   else
   set("outputNewsTimer", 10000)
   end
end
setTimer(showMessages, timerMessages, 0)

 

[The_GTA]

Hello Hydra,

do you know about the onSettingChange serverside event? Whenever you change the outputNewsTimer setting, either through the admin panel or programmatically inside of your own resource, this event will be triggered with the "outputNewsTimer" string as setting name, the old and new values. Inside of the event handler you should change the timer period by killing the old timer and setting a new one using the same closure/function (showMessages).

You are saying that it does not work "when I change the values". I assume that you do not mean that the actual script stops working, but that you are not seeing the intended change in resource behaviour. But in the script that you have provided you do not command the Lua environment to perform the change so if you do not use the event handler that I have recommended it is working without bugs but not like you imagined it.

Edited November 5, 2021 by The_GTA

[Hydra]

34 minutes ago, The_GTA said:

Hello Hydra,

do you know about the onSettingChange serverside event? Whenever you change the outputNewsTimer setting, either through the admin panel or programmatically inside of your own resource, this event will be triggered with the "outputNewsTimer" string as setting name, the old and new values. Inside of the event handler you should change the timer period by killing the old timer and setting a new one using the same closure/function (showMessages).

You are saying that it does not work "when I change the values". I assume that you do not mean that the actual script stops working, but that you are not seeing the intended change in resource behaviour. But in the script that you have provided you do not command the Lua environment to perform the change so if you do not use the event handler that I have recommended it is working without bugs but not like you imagined it.

Thank you for the answer. I know about onSettingChange and I use it in the resource and it's working fine(I get the old and the new values). I will do what you said, killing the timer and make another one.