Want to know something

[botanist]

Hi, I want to know something. Is it possible to create 2 resources which work together? Like resource 1 has an event, but resource 2 says when that event have to be triggered.

And when I use setElementData ( someElement, "someData", someValue ), can I use getElementData ( someElement, "someData" ) in another resource?

[robhol]

Of course. Events, triggering and element data are all independent of resources. In fact, many resources trigger their own events so you can catch and modify what happens in them, without actually modifying said resources.

[eAi]

Events are the main way resources should communicate that things have happened - many of the built-in resources do this.

See https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Resource:Map ... red_events and https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Resource:Rac ... sion_0.8.3 for example.

[botanist]

Okay

But I saw also something about exporting function. Is that for when i want to do this:

Resource 1 contains a function called function doSomethingLol( source ), and I want to trigger that in resource 2 when I spawn. Do I have to do something important or can I just do this?

[50p]

You have to tell resource which function you want to export. To do this, you need to add export node in your meta.xml:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Meta.xml

If you use MTA:SE you can start typing "exp" and you'll see a list of exported functions from other resources or you can see function list to the right of the window (includes exported functions from every resource).

[botanist]

Okay, thank you all

So in fact, this is what I need to do?:

Resource 1:

addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted", getRootElement(),
function ( ammo, attacker, weapon, bodypart )
setElementData( source, "Status", "DEAD" ) --This
triggerEvent( "onMyEvent", getRootElement(), source ) --This
call(getResourceFromName("resource2"), "setSpectating", true , source) --This
end
)

Resource 2:

addEvent ( "onMyEvent", true )
function myEventHandler ( source )
--some code
end
addEventHandler ( "onMyEvent", getRootElement(), myEventHandler )
 
function setSpectating( theBool, source)
--some code
end

[eAi]

If it works, it's right, if not it's not. We can't do a better job at compiling code than the server can?