Making a GUI Searchbar

[Khalil]

How do I make it like lil_Toady's admin panel? I made a gridlist, got all the server players in there, and added an editbox.

[Castillo]

Use the event: onClientGUIChanged

then, loop all the items of the grid list and see if any has part of the string entered on the edit box ( guiGetText ).

[Khalil]

see if any has part of the string entered on the edit box ( guiGetText ).

How exactly do I do that?

[kevenvz]

Use string.match or string.find

[Khalil]

Ok so, I have this:

function search() 
for index, player in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( 'player' ) ) do 
if ( player ~= localPlayer ) then 
local item = guiGridListGetSelectedItem(gridList) 
local player = guiGridListGetItemText(gridList,item,0) 
local search = guiGetText(searchBar) 
string.match(player,search) 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIChanged",searchBar,search) 

How do I remove all the other rows and just have the matched player(s)?

[Castillo]

Eh... why are you getting the selected item?

[Khalil]

oh lol that was a mistake..

so I have this now:

function search() 
for index, player in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( 'player' ) ) do 
if ( player ~= localPlayer ) then 
local search = guiGetText(searchBar) 
string.match(index,search) 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIChanged",searchBar,search) 

[Castillo]

You have to first clear the gridlist, then when it finds a match, add a new row.

[TAPL]

function search() 
    guiGridListClear(gridList) 
    local text = guiGetText(searchBar) 
    if (text == "") then 
        for index, player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
            if (player ~= localPlayer) then 
                local row = guiGridListAddRow(gridList) 
                guiGridListSetItemText(gridList, row, 1, getPlayerName(player), false, false) 
            end 
        end 
    else 
        for index, player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
            if (player ~= localPlayer) then 
                if string.find (string.upper(getPlayerName(player)), string.upper(text), 1, true) then 
                    local row = guiGridListAddRow(gridList) 
                    guiGridListSetItemText(gridList, row, 1, getPlayerName(player), false, false) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIChanged", searchBar, search)