OutPutChatbox repeating

[SkrillexX]

Greetings , i want to make a continous outPutChatbox which means for example "Visit Our Forums at www.randomforum.com"

But i want it to output Once each 5 minutes , How to do that ?

[WhoAmI]

setTimer ( 
    function ( ) 
        local message = "Here message" 
        outputChatBox ( message ) 
    end, 
300000, 0 ) 

[Hell-Mate]

setTimer ( outputChatBox, 500000, 0, "Text Here", root ) 

[Karuzo]

setTimer ( outputChatBox, 500000, 0, "Text Here", root ) 

500000 ms are not 5 Minutes...

300000 ms are 5 Minutes.

[Hell-Mate]

setTimer ( outputChatBox, 500000, 0, "Text Here", root ) 

500000 ms are not 5 Minutes...

300000 ms are 5 Minutes.

okay .-

[Karuzo]

Just wanted to help you

[Anubhav]

You can also do it by random messages each 5 minutes.

  
local theMessages = { 
    'Welcome to the server!', 
    'Visit our website. [url=http://www.randomforum.com']http://www.randomforum.com'[/url], 
    'Enjoy our server.' 
} 
function outputit() 
local r,g,b = 255,0,0 
outputChatBox(theMessages[math.random(#theMessages)],ROOT,255,0,0) 
end 
setTimer(outputit,300000,0) 
  

Edited March 10, 2014 by Guest

[arezu]

You can also do it by random messages each 5 minutes.

  
local theMessages = { 
    'Welcome to the server!', 
    'Visit our website. [url=http://www.randomforum.com']http://www.randomforum.com'[/url], 
    'Enjoy our server.' 
} 
function outputit() 
local r,g,b = 255,0,0 
outputChatBox(theMessages[math.random(#theMessages)],source,255,0,0) 
end 
setTimer(outputit,300000,0) 
  

Should be root instead of source there.

[Anubhav]

Thanks for correcting me. Fixed.

[teQuilla]

You can also do it by random messages each 5 minutes.

  
local theMessages = { 
    'Welcome to the server!', 
    'Visit our website. [url=http://www.randomforum.com']http://www.randomforum.com'[/url], 
    'Enjoy our server.' 
} 
function outputit() 
local r,g,b = 255,0,0 
outputChatBox(theMessages[math.random(#theMessages)],ROOT,255,0,0) 
end 
setTimer(outputit,300000,0) 
  

local r,g,b = 255,0,0 

Why are you still using this line if you don't use your variables anyway ?

You could use it like this if you would like , but I find no use in it.

outputChatBox(theMessages[math.random(#theMessages)],root,r,g,b) 

[Saml1er]

Thanks for correcting me. Fixed.

sorry to tell you but its not ROOT, use getRootElement() even if you did it on purpose but just think how will newbies understand.

[teQuilla]

LUA is case-sensitive , I don't think ROOT works , though you could replace it by simply " root " ._.

root is the global for "getRootElement()" , like localPlayer .