Making a new chat box.

[pa3ck]

Hi there, I want to make 2 more chat boxes, one for the right hand side and one goes to the bottom of the screen. What functions / events will I need? The hardest part is that, when a new chat line comes up, the first one should disappear... Just like in the default chat box. What would be the easiest way?

[xXMADEXx]

I guess these:

dxDrawText 
onClientRender -- event 
bindKey 

To do only a certain amount of messages, when the player makes a chat, you'll need to insert it into a table. You can check the number of indexes in the table, and if there are too many, remove the first index.

[DNL291]

+

onClientChatMessage 
addCommandHandler 
unbindKey 
getChatboxLayout 

[Dealman]

Or if you don't want to use DX, you can use those functions;

textCreateDisplay 
textCreateTextItem 
textDestroyDisplay 
textDestroyTextItem 
textDisplayAddObserver 
textDisplayAddText 
textDisplayRemoveObserver 
textDisplayRemoveText 
textItemGetColor 
textItemGetPosition 
textItemGetPriority 
textItemGetScale 
textItemGetText 
textItemSetColor 
textItemSetPosition 
textItemSetPriority 
textItemSetScale 
textItemSetText 
textDisplayGetObservers 
textDisplayIsObserver 

[pa3ck]

Okay, got it, thank you guys.

[PaiN^]

You should use a table so you can delete the first line in the chat once a new one comes up .