I'm a noob who can't even read a tutorial

[Greenhound]

I've been following the wiki tutorials - I'm up to the GUI one and I've clearly messed something up. I've looked it up and down and can't see the problem.

Can somebody take a look?

http://www.mediafire.com/?bhx99kswo5wsspm

[Castillo]

We need more information, do you get any debug error? to check that write: "/debugscript 3" in the chat when logged as Admin.

[Greenhound]

I did debugscript and found the problem that was stopping the guis from showing, and fixed it.

Now there's a new problem - clicking log in does nothing.

[Castillo]

No errors or anything?

[Greenhound]

No, can you take a look at the script in the first post?

It can't be hard for somebody who knows what they're doing to spot the problem.

[Greenhound]

Fixed.

I did

triggerServerEvent("submitLogin", getRootElement, username, password)

but it should have been

triggerServerEvent("submitLogin", getRootElement(), username, password)

the lack of parenthesis made it think getRootElement was a function.

Also there were a few capitalization typos in my script.

[Castillo]

gui.lua:

function createLoginWindow() 
    local X = 0.375 
    local Y = 0.375 
    local Width = 0.25 
    local Height = 0.25 
    wdwLogin = guiCreateWindow(X, Y, Width, Height, "Welcome to the server", true) 
     
    X = 0.0825 
    Y = 0.2 
    Width = 0.25 
    Height = 0.25 
    guiCreateLabel(X, Y, Width, Height, "Username", true, wdwLogin) 
    Y = 0.5 
    guiCreateLabel(X, Y, Width, Height, "Password", true, wdwLogin) 
  
  
    X = 0.415 
    Y = 0.2 
    Width = 0.5 
    Height = 0.15 
    edtUser = guiCreateEdit(X, Y, Width, Height, "", true, wdwLogin) 
    Y = 0.5 
    edtPass = guiCreateEdit(X, Y, Width, Height, "", true, wdwLogin) 
    guiEditSetMaxLength(edtUser, 15) 
    guiEditSetMaxLength(edtPass, 15) 
  
    X = 0.415 
    Y = 0.7 
    Width = 0.25 
    Height = 0.2 
    btnLogin = guiCreateButton(X, Y, Width, Height, "Log In", true, wdwLogin) 
    addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", btnLogin, clientSubmitLogin, false) 
    guiSetVisible(wdwLogin, false)   
end 
  
addEventHandler ( "onClientResourceStart", resourceRoot, 
    function ( ) 
        createLoginWindow ( ) 
        outputChatBox("Welcome to My MTA:SA Server, please log in.") 
        if (wdwLogin ~= nil) then 
            guiSetVisible(wdwLogin, true) 
        else 
            outputChatBox("An unexpected error has occurred and the log in GUI has not been created.") 
        end  
  
        showCursor(true) 
        guiSetInputEnabled(true) 
    end 
) 
  
function clientSubmitLogin(button,state) 
    if button == "left" and state == "up" then 
        local username = guiGetText(edtUser) 
        local password = guiGetText(edtPass) 
     
        if username and password then 
            triggerServerEvent("submitLogin", localPlayer, username, password) 
            guiSetInputEnabled(false) 
            guiSetVisible(wdwLogin, false) 
            showCursor(false) 
        else 
            outputChatBox("Please enter a username and password") 
        end 
    end 
end 

Errors I have found:

1: You we're using 'getRootElement' and that's wrong, because you should have used 'getRootElement ( )'.

2: You put "submitlogin" instead of "submitLogin" with upper case "L".

[Greenhound]

Beat you to it, lol.

Thanks for trying to help anyway.