When a player connects for the first time?

[Stevenn]

Hello, I got a quuestion, when a player connects to my server for the first time, a GUI should be drawed, but I don't know what the event is named or don't i need an event

[Wei]

setElementData 
getElementData 

like that:

function firstTimeJoin() 
     local mamamia = getElementData(source, "firsttimejoin") 
          if (mamamia == false) then 
          setElementData( source, "firsttimejoin", true) 
          end 
      end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", firstTimeJoin) 
  

I'm not completly sure about sample...

[Michael#]

@@blazy, you're wrong. Element data is deleted when element is deleted. When player join, element data 'firsttimejoin' on player is nil. You must check by name, serial, account, ip or whatever you like.

[Callum]

You could use client-side XML functions, though this would be reset if the player deletes their client resources, etc. Alternatively you could base it on serial, in an SQL table, but it just depends on why you need this data.