I need help.

[Michcio]

Hi! I want to do a dxtext when player download resources on join. What events should I use?

[uhm]

I tried this a while back, but back then it wasn't possible because the MTA client starts running the client scripts only after every single resource has downloaded. Alternatively you can use server side functions to write text: Read more on Wiki

[Michcio]

Thanks for help. I will try.

[Anderl]

Alternatively, you could make a custom "downloader" and use loadstring to load your code instantly so you don't need neither to wait download to end or to have to do all that with server-side text functions.

[uhm]

Ah, that's fantastic! +1

For anyone else: loadstring is a native LUA function, so it's not documented on the MTA wiki. It also takes files as parameter, making it perfect to use in the way Anderl described. I'm guessing it'll need downloadFile though, available from 1.4 onward.

[Anderl]

Ah, that's fantastic! +1

For anyone else: loadstring is a native LUA function, so it's not documented on the MTA wiki. It also takes files as parameter, making it perfect to use in the way Anderl described. I'm guessing it'll need downloadFile though, available from 1.4 onward.

It doesn't take file as a parameter, it takes a string with a code.

http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/loadstring

Example ( this example only works in any software with default Lua package ( e.g. Lua interpreter that comes with Lua for Windows ):

local luaf = io.open( "file.lua", "r" ); -- this opens a file with read permissions 
assert( luaf, "blabla lua file not loaded" ); 
  
loadstring( luaf:read( "*all" ) )(); -- loads the code that is read from the file 
  
--now tries to call a function from that file 
if (initSomethingElse()) then 
    print( "Yes, it did work." ) 
end 

And for MTA:SA, no, you don't need any download function. Just use file functions.

Of course, to do that you need to make sure everything that everything the client-side file needs is already downloaded ( all that can be easily programmed not to be downloaded, and I mean it gets loaded/the client receives the file but without actually downloading the file ).