dxDraw... Functions - Help required.

[demojoel]

Hello, today I have been having a problem with the dxDrawText & dxDrawRectangle.

I assign a button to trigger a function which looks similar to this:

  
local screenX, screenY = guiGetScreenSize() 
function example () 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:1") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 220, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1, "default-bold", "center", "top", true, false) 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:2") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 200, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 0.9, "default-bold", "center", "top", true, false) 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:3") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 180, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 0.9, "default-bold", "left", "top", true, true) 
end 
  

Once pressed, the text appears for about 0.01 milliseconds then disappears. I have never encounted this problem before, If anyone has a solution to this, it will be much appreciated.

[Guest Guest4401]

Its because:

dxDrawText draws a string of text on the screen for one frame. In order for the text to stay visible continuously, you need to call this function with the same parameters on each frame update (see onClientRender).

local screenX, screenY = guiGetScreenSize() 
  
function example2() 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:1") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 220, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1, "default-bold", "center", "top", true, false) 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:2") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 200, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 0.9, "default-bold", "center", "top", true, false) 
    dxDrawText(getElementData(resourceRoot, "server:3") or "", screenX / 2 + 220, screenY / 2 - 180, 20, 120, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 0.9, "default-bold", "left", "top", true, true) 
end 
  
function example () 
    addEventHandler("onClientRender",root,example2) 
end 

[demojoel]

Ahh, now i see... i will try this out. Thanks for the help!

[Guest Guest4401]

You're welcome