setElementData

[Buffalo]

I have a annoying problem with setting element data like in text displays tutorial http://www.multitheftauto.com/tutorial5.html (Setting up dynamic displays)

local myTextDisplay = textCreateDisplay ()                         -- create a text display 
local myTextItem = textCreateTextItem( "", 0.7, 0.7)    -- create a text item for the display 
textDisplayAddText ( myTextDisplay, myTextItem )                -- add it to the display so it is displayed 
setElementData ( source, "textItem_myTextItem", myTextItem )  -- <-- problem 
textDisplayAddObserver ( myTextDisplay, source ) 

When it tries to setelementdata it prints to console "Couldn't packetsize argument list, invalid element speciefed." , it sets it correctly, but the error..

Can it be fixed somehow, that this error wouldn't show up?

[eAi]

It's not really an error, it's a warning. I agree it's annoying that it appears, but there's nothing you can really do to avoid it appearing, except not using setElementData on non-element/non-primitive values.

[Buffalo]

Then its better using tables in this case.. Thanks for reply.