Event doesn't trigger

[Spider Pork]

Hey there!

My problem now is that an event doesn't trigger when it should.

I used this for triggering:

triggerClientEvent("sendChatMessage", source, "Hello there.")

And I have added the event client-side:

function sendChatMessage(text)
local ptext = guiGetText(chatLabel)
guiSetText(chatLabel, "" .. ptext .. "\n" .. text .. "")
end
addEvent("sendChatMessage", true)
addEventHandler("sendChatMessage", getRootElement(), sendChatMessage)

Though, suprisingly, the same event DOES trigger when I call it from the same server-side script, this one:

triggerClientEvent("sendChatMessage", playerid, "You have been successfully registered and logged in.")

I am guessing it is the two different player variables. One of them is source and the other one is playerid. I forward playerid from getLocalPlayer in another client-side script.

What's wrong?

[50p]

Show some more code where the triggerClientEvent is located. What event triggers a function that triggers the client event?

[dzek (varez)]

tried with "debugscript 3" in ingame console?

[Callum]

triggerClientEvent("sendChatMessage", source, "Hello there.")

So if that doesn't work, and yet the other version of it does, the only explination is that the theElement argument is not correct.

P.S: If there is no argument before the event name, the event will be triggered for all players.