ChatboxOuput

[Frank-De-Ruiter]

Example 1: This example displays a chat message to all users.

x = 5

y = 10

-- Displays the message

outputChatBox ( "I have " .. x .. " apples and " .. y .. " oranges." )

Example 2: This example outputs a simple colour coded message, "Red White", where the 'White' is in white colour, and 'Red' is in a red colour.

outputChatBox ( "Red #ffffffWhite", 255,0,0,true )

Example 3: This example allows for coloured chat, according to a player's nametag. This makes use of colour coded outputs.

function colouredChat ( message, theType )

if theType == 0 then --if its normal chat (not /me or teamchat) then

cancelEvent() --prevent MTA from outputting chat

message = string.gsub(message, "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "") --remove any hex tags in a player's chat to prevent custom colours by using lua's string.gsub

local r,g,b = getPlayerNametagColor ( source ) --get the player's nametag colour

local chatterName = getClientName ( source ) --get his name

--output a message with the name as his nametag colour, and the rest in white.

outputChatBox ( chatterName..":#FFFFFF "..message, getRootElement(), r, g, b, true )

end

end

Example 4: This example displays a chat message to a single user called someguy.

-- Find the player element for the player called 'someguy'

myPlayer = getPlayerFromNick ( "someguy" )

-- If a player was found called 'someguy' then...

if ( myPlayer ~= false ) then

x = 5

y = 10

-- Display the message

outputChatBox ( "I have " .. x .. " apples and " .. y .. " oranges.", myPlayer )

end

that stands in the touterial of mta but now i wanne know how to make the /command and then that triggers the script that sends the message into the chat may sound an bit noob but im learning lua so...

Greatings DJFrankie

[ChrML]

Use addCommandHandler. See wiki for documentation.

  
function myCommandFunction ( playerSource, command, parameter1, parameter2 ) 
  outputChatBox ( "you typed /mycommand", playerSource ) 
end 
  
addCommandHandler ( "mycommand", myCommandFunction ) 
  

[Frank-De-Ruiter]

Okay ive got an question the script works great but it doesnt show to everyone does it? it only g'o's to your self right? how can i make it that it sends it to everyone like: -XIII-DJFrankie Is Laughing Out Loud!!

The script that i use now only sends it to your self:

  
function lolFunction ( playerSource, command, parameter1, parameter2 ) 
  outputChatBox ( "Im Laughing Out Loud!", playerSource ) 
end 
  
addCommandHandler ( "lolcommand", lolCommandFunction ) 
  

Can someone explain this because i dont understand anything off the wiki

EDIT: Know server says: WARNING: lol.lua: Bad Argument @ 'AddCommandHandler' - Line:5

Is this an problem? because it doesnt work anymore...

Greatings Frank

[Mount]

Try this:

function lolCommandFunction ( playerSource, command ) 
  outputChatBox ( "Im Laughing Out Loud!", playerSource ) 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "lolcommand", getRootElement(), lolCommandFunction ) 

and for your script with included name:

function lolCommandFunction ( playerSource, command ) 
  outputChatBox ( "* " .. getClientName(playerSource) .. " is Laughing Out Loud!") 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "lolcommand", getRootElement(), lolCommandFunction ) 

[therenex]

ummm if you put playerSource in the first outputChatBox only he will see the message...

just change "playerSource" by "getRootElement()". That should work.

[Frank-De-Ruiter]

Ehm...

WARNING: lol.lua: Bad argument@ 'addCommandHandler' - Line: 4

With this script:

  
function lolCommandFunction ( playerSource, command ) 
  outputChatBox ( "* " .. getClientName(getRootElement()) .. " is Laughing Out Loud!") 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "lolcommand", getRootElement(), lolCommandFunction ) 
  

[[email protected]]

What terenex meants was the following I think:

# function lolCommandFunction ( playerSource, command )

# outputChatBox ( "* " .. getClientName(playerSource) .. " is Laughing Out Loud!", getRootElement() )

# end

# addCommandHandler ( "lolcommand", getRootElement(), lolCommandFunction )

this will mainly send the message to getRootElement(), which basically is your universe, it contains everything: players, vehicles, objects, elements, etc.

You can see it as a tree of which the result of getRootElement() is the tree-root. players, vehicles, objects, etc are all sub-trees of this.

So if you would use the root element to send the message to it will also reach ALL players (correct me if this is wrong)

note: the argument of getClientName MUST be a player-object. a vehicle or blip for instance are of different types and conflict in their data structures, for this reason the root element cannot be used as argument of that function.

[therenex]

maybe you should define something as your root element.

gamemode_root = getRootElement() 

so instead of using getRootElement() on your codes, put gamemode_root.

[[email protected]]

maybe you should define something as your root element.

gamemode_root = getRootElement() 

so instead of using getRootElement() on your codes, put gamemode_root.

Shouldn't really make a difference I think..., unless the root element changes to a different one, but that should not be the case I think.

[Jumba']

Does it matter if you put getRootElement? it'll show it to all players as long as you remove playerSource right?