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[Darkwarrior Diesel]

hi again guys

this time, i made a gui, and want it to appear when player press the f2 key and if window is already visible, the window disappears.

but man, i think im doing it all wrong

heres the code :

-- makin a rules window, second type, with a f2 bind key 
--a simple rules window, with an accept button and a list of all the server rules and information 
-- however, instead of relative, we gonna use absolute position values !!! 
-- as noted in previous tutorials, all the gui must be made client side 
  
--makin the window 
--create the window that will hold our gui creation code 
  
        local sWidth, sHeight = guiGetScreenSize() 
         
        local Width,Height = 445,445 
        local X = (sWidth/2) - (Width/2) 
        local Y = (sHeight/2) - (Height/2) 
         
        rulesWindow = guiCreateWindow(X,Y,Width,Height,"Rules",false) 
         
        guiWindowSetMovable(rulesWindow,false) 
         
        guiWindowSetSizable(rulesWindow,false) 
         
         
        -- next we will add the label to the centre of our window that our rules will be displayed on 
        -- we set the text of the label to our rules 
        rulesLabel = guiCreateLabel(10,25,425,359,[[ 
        Welcome to my mta server! 
         
        Please carefully read the rules before accepting. 
         
        By accepting the rules, you are agreeing to play by them. 
        Anyone caught breakin these rules will be kicked and/or banned from this server. 
         
        1: No cheating. 
         
        2: No bug abuse. 
         
        3: No mods to your game. 
         
        4: No flaming. 
         
        5: Respect other players. 
         
        6: Be nice!]],false,rulesWindow) 
         
        --set the horizontal alignment of your label to centre, : in the middle of the window 
        -- also the final argument is true, which means, it will turn on wordwrap 
         
        guiLabelSetHorizontalAlign(rulesLabel,"center",true) 
        guiSetVisible(rulesWindow, false) 
  
  
  
  
     
function resourceStart () 
  bindKey ("F2", "down", showHelp) 
end 
addEventHandler ("onClientResourceStart",getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),resourceStart) 
  
function showHelp () 
    visableOrNot = guiSetVisible (rulesWindow) 
    if (visableOrNot == true) then 
        guiSetVisible (rulesWindow, false) 
     
    elseif (visableOrNot == false) then 
        guiSetVisible (rulesWindow,true) 
    end 
end 
  

Thnks for u help guys

[Castillo]

Any error in the debugscript?

[Wei]

local sWidth, sHeight = guiGetScreenSize()   
local Width,Height = 445,445 
local X = (sWidth/2) - (Width/2) 
local Y = (sHeight/2) - (Height/2) 
  
rulesWindow = guiCreateWindow(X,Y,Width,Height,"Rules",false)     
guiWindowSetMovable(rulesWindow,false) 
guiWindowSetSizable(rulesWindow,false) 
rulesLabel = guiCreateLabel(10,25,425,359,[[ 
Welcome to my mta server! 
        
Please carefully read the rules before accepting. 
        
By accepting the rules, you are agreeing to play by them. 
Anyone caught breakin these rules will be kicked and/or banned from this server. 
        
1: No cheating. 
        
2: No bug abuse. 
        
3: No mods to your game. 
        
4: No flaming. 
        
5: Respect other players. 
        
6: Be nice!]],false,rulesWindow) 
guiLabelSetHorizontalAlign(rulesLabel,"center",true) 
guiSetVisible(rulesWindow, false) 
  
  
function showHelp () 
    if (guiGetVisible(rulesWindow)) then 
        guiSetVisible(rulesWindow, false) 
    else 
        guiSetVisible(rulesWindow,true) 
    end 
end 
bindKey ("F2", "down", showHelp) --// binding that on resource start is not needeed 

anyways this was the problem

 visableOrNot = guiSetVisible (rulesWindow) 

[Castillo]

To make it shorter you can use:

guiSetVisible ( rulesWindow, not guiGetVisible ( rulesWindow ) ) 

[Darkwarrior Diesel]

Thnks Wei, it works

and thnk u for tryin to help me solid

thnks a lot guys

[Wei]

You're welcome