How I can get the X and Y coordinates to make a text...

[CTCCoco]

How I can get the X and Y coordinates to make a text and a GUI in the player window?

Please help. Thanks.

[50p]

Calculate it? Depends what kind of text you're adding.

You can use relative coords which are between 0 and 1 (1 = full width, height, etc), where 0.5 is half length (middle of the screen or parent element).

[Xeno]

Im not really sure, but i had seen somthink about a ped haveing a name, maby you could remove the ped and there would be text there? heres the script

local rootElement = getRootElement() --define what rootElement is (that's probably your main problem)
local NPC = createPed(124,0,0,5)
local screenWidth, screenHeight = guiGetScreenSize() --you don't need to get this every frame, it will not change
local maxrange = 45 -- the max range the text can be seen (modify to your preferences, i believe normal nametags use 45 too)
function NPCnametag()
   local pedX,pedY,pedZ = getElementPosition(NPC)
   local sx,sy = getScreenFromWorldPosition (pedX,pedY,pedZ)
   local cameraX,cameraY,cameraZ = getCameraMatrix()
   if sx then --this will check if the ped is actually on screen (without this check you would have many errors in your debug log)
       if getDistanceBetweenPoints3D(cameraX,cameraY,cameraZ,pedX,pedY,pedZ) <= maxrange then --get the distance between two points in the 3d environment and check if it is smaller or the same as our maxrange
           dxDrawText("Bob",sx,sy,screenWidth, screenHeight,tocolor ( 255, 255, 0, 255 ), 2,"sans") --I'm not sure if the text was supposed to be invisible but I think I'll just change that too
       end
   end
end
 
function HandleTheRendering()
   addEventHandler("onClientRender",rootElement, NPCnametag)
end
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",rootElement, HandleTheRendering)

I have tried it, try this.

dxDrawText("Bob",sx,sy,screenWidth, screenHeight,tocolor ( 255, 255, 0, 255 ), 2,"sans")

[CTCCoco]

Calculate it? Depends what kind of text you're adding.

You can use relative coords which are between 0 and 1 (1 = full width, height, etc), where 0.5 is half length (middle of the screen or parent element).

I mean for create a GUI for example a Buy a House GUI or LOGIN GUI.

How you get the coordinates? Magic?

Thanks for help a noob

[50p]

Calculate it? Depends what kind of text you're adding.

You can use relative coords which are between 0 and 1 (1 = full width, height, etc), where 0.5 is half length (middle of the screen or parent element).

I mean for create a GUI for example a Buy a House GUI or LOGIN GUI.

How you get the coordinates? Magic?

Thanks for help a noob

guiGetScreenSize returns width and height of the screen. You can use it to calculate your positions.

I don't know what you have problems with Each pixel on your screen has a position (x, y) and it's your choice where you create your elements. If you want to create something in the top left corner, you use 0, 0 for x and y. If you want to create something at the bottom left of the screen, you use 0 for X and you need to calculate Y, like so:

screenWidth, screenHeight = guiGetScreenSize(); -- I usually make a table instead of 2 variables
HEIGHT_OF_YOUR_ELEMENT = 100
WIDTH_OF_YOUR_ELEMENT = 100
guiCreateWindow( 0, screenHeight - HEIGHT_OF_YOUR_ELEMENT, WIDTH_OF_YOUR_ELEMENT, HEIGHT_OF_YOUR_ELEMENT, "bottom left", false );

Basically, take away height of your GUI element from the height of the screen. Explain what you don't understand or what pills you have taken.