What is the update for the newsfeed.xml?

[Jaysds1]

Every time I start my server it shows "There's an error near "<" " and there's no error, so I'm wondering if there's an upgrade or update on the News feed script.

[Castillo]

Post the news feed script here.

[Jaysds1]

ok

[CowTurbo]

lol,

[Castillo]

CowTurbo, are you drunk? because that's the most useless post i ever seen.

[Jaysds1]

-- Client Side --

  
-- news feed 
function createNewsFeed() 
    -- get the screen width and height 
    local sWidth, sHeight = guiGetScreenSize() 
  
    -- create the gridlist, using some maths to find the bottom-centre of the screen 
    local Width,Height = 800,45 
    local X = (sWidth/2) - (Width/2) 
    local Y = sHeight - (Height/2) 
  
    -- the gridlist will act as the background to our news reel 
    newsGridlist = guiCreateGridList(X,Y,Width,Height,false) 
  
    -- create the label in the same place, but as a child of the gridlist 
    -- also make it half the height of the gridlist, as half of the gridlist is off the bottom of the screen 
    newsLabel = guiCreateLabel(X,Y,Width,Height/2,"Test text",false,newsGridlist) 
  
    -- call our function to read the news out of the xml file 
    loadNews() 
  
    -- load the first news item in the table 
    updateNewsItem(1) 
  
    -- define a global variable called 'currentItem' with the value 1 
    currentItem = 1 
end 
  
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",resourceRoot,createNewsFeed) 
  
function loadNews() 
    local newsfile = xmlLoadFile("newsfeed.xml") 
  
    if newsfile then 
        -- loop through all the children of the root node (the "news" nodes) 
        for index,itemNode in ipairs(xmlNodeGetChildren(newsfile)) do 
            -- get the text (the news item) from the node 
            local item = xmlNodeGetValue(itemNode) 
  
            -- insert it into our newsItems table 
            table.insert(newsItems,item) 
        end 
  
        xmlUnloadFile(newsfile) 
    end 
end 
  
-- define our function with a newIndex parameter, so that we can pass which news item we want to show 
function updateNewsItem(newIndex) 
    -- get the new news item from the table 
    local item = newsItems[newIndex] 
  
    -- update the label text 
    guiSetText(newsLabel,item) 
  
    -- update the 'currentItem' global variable 
    currentItem = newIndex 
     
    -- get the current dimensions of the gui label 
    local width,height = guiGetSize(newsLabel,false) 
  
    -- get the text width of the label 
    local extent = guiLabelGetTextExtent(newsLabel) 
  
    -- update the size of the label with the new width (we do not change the height) 
    guiSetSize(newsLabel,extent,height,false) 
     
    -- set the positon to the far right side of the gridlist, ready to scroll on to the left 
    guiSetPosition(newsLabel,1,0,true) 
  
end 
  
addEventHandler("onClientRender",root,scrollNews) 
function scrollNews() 
    local x,y = guiGetPosition(newsLabel,false) 
  
    local labelWidth, labelHeight = guiGetSize(newsLabel,false) 
  
    -- if the far right position of the label (x + labelWidth) is greater than or equal to 0 (ie: still showing on the gridlist) 
    if ((x-1) + labelWidth) >= 0 then 
        -- compensate for a small off-by-one bug in MTA 
        if x <= 0 then x = x - 1 end 
  
        -- update the position as normal 
        guiSetPosition(newsLabel,x-1,y,false) 
  
    -- otherwise, we move on to the next item and reset the position 
    else 
        -- get the total number of items in the 'newsItems' table 
        local totalItems = #newsItems 
  
        -- if the next item on our list does not exist in our table 
        if (currentItem + 1) > totalItems then 
            -- loop back to the first item in the list 
            updateNewsItem(1) 
        else 
            -- otherwise move onto the next item in the list 
            updateNewsItem(currentItem + 1) 
        end 
    end 
end 

--newsfeed.xml--

<root> 
        <news>Visit [url=http://www.JWORLDSA.tk]http://www.JWORLDSA.tk[/url] for latest news.</news> 
        <news>Still Updating</news> 
</root> 

[Castillo]

You'd forgot to tell me where's the error, line number.

[Jaysds1]

in newsfeed.xml, 1st line.

[Castillo]

I don't understand, where's the error? in newsfeed.xml or in the script part?

Post an screenshot of your server console (when the error pop-ups)

[Jaysds1]

Here

\newsfeed.xml:1: unexpected symbol near "<"

[DakiLLa]

Here

\newsfeed.xml:1: unexpected symbol near "<"

lol, you shouldn't define this file in meta.xml. I assume you did something like

="newsfeed.xml" type="server" />

didn't you?

[Jaysds1]

no

[Castillo]

Not possible, because the XML files doesn't output errors like the normal scripts (as far as i know).

[CowTurbo]

CowTurbo, are you drunk? because that's the most useless post i ever seen.

im not drunk and im not idiot

[Castillo]

Why did you post that then?

[CowTurbo]

as far as i konw 'lol' means laughting. Why else should i post 'lol' ?

[Jaysds1]

How do you take a screenshot, lol

[proracer]

Press "PrintScreen" on keyboard if you have it and paste it in picture editor like Paint or something.

[Jaysds1]

ok thanks

[Jaysds1]

This is what it said:

[2011-04-25 13:49:25] SCRIPT ERROR: JS\news.xml:1: unexpected symbol near '<'

[2011-04-25 13:49:25] WARNING: Loading script failed: JS\news.xml:1: unexpected symbol near '<'

or

[Castillo]

Now, post your meta.xml.

[Jaysds1]

Here:

[Castillo]

It does work fine here, no errors.

[Jaysds1]

but it say's it's an error

??

[AGENT_STEELMEAT]

is WRONG, it should be

.xmls are not scripts, therefore they do not use the script tag. rather, it is a file for the clientside script to read, so it gets the file tag. Only LUA scripts should get the script tag (.lua and .luac).