Best way to "announce" a text

[Eth]

So hello everyone, My name is Eth and I have recently moved from SAMP to MTA [let's face it, MTA Is way better than SAMP]

So when I joined MTA I started to script my own gamemode right away as I have Large experience in programming in different languages and everything works great! but I have a little problem here, I am trying to do an announce command for admins that will announce a text for 5 seconds then disappears again, I have searched in MTA wiki but I didn't find the best way to do it.

here is my announce command:

function Announce( sourcePlayer, commandname, ...) 
  
  local message = table.concat({...}, " ") 
  
  if(message ~= nil and message ~= "") then 
  
  if(tonumber(getElementData(sourcePlayer,"Admin")) < 2) then 
  
  outputChatBox("ERROR: you Can't use This CMD.",sourcePlayer) 
  
  outputDebugString("WARNING: Player " .. getPlayerName(sourcePlayer) .. " has attempt to use An ADMIN command. [/"..commandname.."]") 
  
  return 
  
end 
-- I want my code to be here to announce message 
  
else 
  outputChatBox("Error Right Syntax: /announce [text] ",sourcePlayer) 
  
   end 
end   
  

so how can I do that? thank you.

[Eth]

Little help please thank you :0

[IIYAMA]

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/TextCreateTextItem

and there are more functions below you can use.(on that site)

> Take a closer look at the examples and you will know how to use them.

Personally I am more a fan of clientside dx functions, I never tried to use those functions myself.

[Mr_Moose]

I would also recommend DX functions, have a look at this maybe which already does most of the job for you: https://github.com/GTWCode/GTW-RPG/tree/master/resources/GTWtopbar, by including that a simple announce command based on your code would look like this:

function Announce( sourcePlayer, commandname, ...) 
    local message = table.concat({...}, " ") 
    if(message ~= nil and message ~= "") then 
        if(tonumber(getElementData(sourcePlayer,"Admin")) < 2) then 
            outputChatBox("ERROR: you Can't use This CMD.",sourcePlayer) 
            outputDebugString("WARNING: Player " .. getPlayerName(sourcePlayer) .. " has attempt to use An ADMIN command. [/"..commandname.."]") 
            return 
        end 
        export.GTWtopbar("Note: "..message, root, 255, 255, 255) 
    else 
        outputChatBox("Error Right Syntax: /announce [text] ",sourcePlayer) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("announce", Announce) 

[Dealman]

I strongly advice against storing Admin permission related stuff in Element Data...

[Eth]

Too many nice people, Thank you everyone! already solved

please /lock this topic

[johny46]

I strongly advice against storing Admin permission related stuff in Element Data...

Can you recommend any alternative? Where do you think such data should be stored?

[Anubhav]

Tables and exports.