How to recognize/identify chars in variable.

[Gawdzik]

Hello, I'm totally newbie, and I'm learning LUA with making Role Play server. For the first, sorry for my bad English, please, be forgiving.

I have got a local chat, for the aesthetics I want to manipulate chars in var. Example, player press t (open chat) and write -> "hello, I'm new in the town", when he press enter in the chatbox there is a "Hello, I'm, new in the town." (capital letter and dot in the end). I hope you understand my request. I don't want ready script (if you want...), I look forward to tips.

My localchat function...

  
function sendMessageToNearbyPlayers( message, messageType ) 
    if messageType == 0 then 
        local posX, posY, posZ = getElementPosition( source ) 
  
        local chatSphere = createColSphere( posX, posY, posZ, chatRadius ) 
        local nearbyPlayers = getElementsWithinColShape( chatSphere, "player" ) 
        destroyElement( chatSphere ) 
        local gracz = getPlayerName (source) 
        local dlugosc = #message 
        for index, nearbyPlayer in ipairs( nearbyPlayers ) do 
            if dlugosc <= 8 then 
            outputChatBox( "#99b7d0" .. gracz .. " mówi: #c8e6ff" .. message .. "", nearbyPlayer,255,255,255,true ) 
            setPedAnimation( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", #message*70, false, false, false, false) 
            else 
            outputChatBox( "#99b7d0" .. gracz .. " mówi: #c8e6ff" .. message .. "", nearbyPlayer,255,255,255,true ) 
            setPedAnimation( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", #message*35, false, false, false, false) 
            end 
        end 
    end 
end 
  

[Castillo]

You must use the event: onPlayerChat, cancel the default message with: cancelEvent then put your code.

[Gawdzik]

Thanks for reply, but don't have idea how to do that. Maybe function to edit a var message? And create if last char == . then outputchatbox, else message == ... says: " .. message .. "."

[Castillo]

local chatRadius = 15 
  
function sendMessageToNearbyPlayers ( message, messageType ) 
    if ( messageType == 0 ) then 
        local posX, posY, posZ = getElementPosition ( source ) 
        local chatSphere = createColSphere ( posX, posY, posZ, chatRadius ) 
        local nearbyPlayers = getElementsWithinColShape ( chatSphere, "player" ) 
        destroyElement ( chatSphere ) 
        local gracz = getPlayerName ( source ) 
        local dlugosc = #message 
        for index, nearbyPlayer in ipairs ( nearbyPlayers ) do 
            outputChatBox ( "#99b7d0".. gracz .." mówi: #c8e6ff".. message, nearbyPlayer, 255, 255, 255, true ) 
        end 
  
        if ( dlugosc <= 8 ) then 
            setPedAnimation ( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", ( #message * 70 ), false, false, false, false ) 
        else 
            setPedAnimation ( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", ( #message * 35 ), false, false, false, false ) 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", root, sendMessageToNearbyPlayers ) 

Try that.

[Gawdzik]

Okey... but, you don't understand me. I know that, I post only a piece of my code. Read the first topic what I want to do. Thanks for help, but it's not that

[Castillo]

Oh, my bad, sorry.

local chatRadius = 15 
  
function sendMessageToNearbyPlayers ( message, messageType ) 
    if ( messageType == 0 ) then 
        local posX, posY, posZ = getElementPosition ( source ) 
        local chatSphere = createColSphere ( posX, posY, posZ, chatRadius ) 
        local nearbyPlayers = getElementsWithinColShape ( chatSphere, "player" ) 
        destroyElement ( chatSphere ) 
        local gracz = getPlayerName ( source ) 
        local dlugosc = #message 
        for index, nearbyPlayer in ipairs ( nearbyPlayers ) do 
            outputChatBox ( "#99b7d0".. gracz .." mówi: #c8e6ff".. message:gsub ( "^%l", string.upper ) ..".", nearbyPlayer, 255, 255, 255, true ) 
        end 
  
        if ( dlugosc <= 8 ) then 
            setPedAnimation ( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", ( #message * 70 ), false, false, false, false ) 
        else 
            setPedAnimation ( source, "ped", "IDLE_chat", ( #message * 35 ), false, false, false, false ) 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", root, sendMessageToNearbyPlayers ) 

Try that.

It should make the first letter uppercase and add a dot at the end of the message.

[Gawdzik]

Yes! That's it! Thank you very much for help. Now I'm reading about gsub in Lua DOC. Thanks. Have a nice day.

[Castillo]

You're welcome.