Add elementData to a GUI label

[DRW]

I've created some GUI labels attached to an image for a mining system, and it works well, it takes the elementData of a player and it changes the respective label with the number of the elementData I want to retrieve. The problem starts when joining, all the labels in the script appear and some of them bother a lot.

The essential part of the clientside script (Enough to know what happens since

local screenW, screenH = guiGetScreenSize() 
        interfven = guiCreateStaticImage(screenW - 192 - 10, (screenH - 111) / 2, 192, 111, ":imageretriever/zm.png", false) 
  
        lab = guiCreateLabel(10, 10, 64, 15, "Ununtrium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab, "default-bold-small") 
        lab1 = guiCreateLabel(10, 25, 83, 15, "Ununquadium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab1, "default-bold-small") 
        lab2 = guiCreateLabel(10, 40, 83, 15, "Ununpentium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab2, "default-bold-small") 
        lab3 = guiCreateLabel(10, 55, 73, 15, "Ununhexium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab3, "default-bold-small") 
        lab4 = guiCreateLabel(10, 70, 78, 15, "Ununseptium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab4, "default-bold-small") 
        lab5 = guiCreateLabel(10, 85, 73, 16, "Ununoctium:", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(lab5, "default-bold-small") 
        uut = guiCreateLabel(83, 10, 64, 15, "uut", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uut, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uut, 28, 255, 4) 
        uuq = guiCreateLabel(99, 25, 83, 15, "uuq", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uuq, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uuq, 181, 254, 4) 
        uup = guiCreateLabel(99, 40, 83, 15, "uup", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uup, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uup, 255, 198, 2) 
        uuh = guiCreateLabel(89, 55, 73, 15, "uuh", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uuh, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uuh, 255, 127, 1) 
        uus = guiCreateLabel(93, 70, 73, 15, "uus", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uus, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uus, 255, 48, 0) 
        uuo = guiCreateLabel(89, 85, 73, 15, "uuo", false,  interfven) 
        guiSetFont(uuo, "default-bold-small") 
        guiLabelSetColor(uuo, 255, 0, 0)    
  
addEventHandler ("onClientResourceStart",getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),function() 
engineReplaceCOL ( col_floors, 3924 ) 
engineImportTXD ( txd_floors, 3924 ) 
engineReplaceModel ( dff_floors, 3924) 
local ununt= getElementData (localPlayer, "ununtrium") 
local ununq=getElementData (localPlayer, "ununquadium") 
local ununp=getElementData (localPlayer, "ununpentium") 
local ununh=getElementData (localPlayer, "ununhexium") 
local ununs=getElementData (localPlayer, "ununseptium") 
local ununo=getElementData (localPlayer, "ununoctium") 
guiSetText (uut, ""..ununt.."") 
guiSetText (uuq, ""..ununq.."") 
guiSetText (uup, ""..ununp.."") 
guiSetText (uuh, ""..ununh.."") 
guiSetText (uus, ""..ununs.."") 
guiSetText (uuo, ""..ununo.."") 
setDevelopmentMode (true) 
guiSetVisible (label,false) 
guiSetVisible (label2,false) 
guiSetVisible (label3,false) 
guiSetVisible (interfven,false) 
end) 
  
  

attempt to concatenate local 'ununt' (a boolean value)

What's wrong?

[lolman]

Ye, I had the same problem once, wtf is the problem and how to solve this??

[myonlake]

This means "ununtrium" element data is not set, or if it is, it is set to a boolean value, which means you need to tostring( ) the guiSetText like so:

guiSetText( uut, tostring( ununt ) ) 

And by the way, you don't need the quotes and stuff... just pass in the variable.

"" .. ununt .. "" 

Edited July 17, 2015 by Guest

[DRW]

This means "ununtrium" element data is not set, or if it is, it is set to a boolean value, which means you need to tostring( ) the guiSetText like so:

guiSetText( uut, tostring( ununt ) ) 

And by the way, you don't need the quotes and stuff... just pass in the variable and tostring( ) it instead.

"" .. ununt .. "" 

Thank you very much!

[myonlake]

You're welcome.

If you're still wondering why it's not returning anything other than a boolean (and it should be something else), then make sure the element data is set before the resource is started. In MTA 1.5 you can order the downloads so one resource starts before another one. Other than that, you could trigger a custom event client-side that will update the text after you have set the element data.

[DRW]

You're welcome.

If you're still wondering why it's not returning anything other than a boolean (and it should be something else), then make sure the element data is set before the resource is started. In MTA 1.5 you can order the downloads so one resource starts before another one. Other than that, you could trigger a custom event client-side that will update the text after you have set the element data.

Wow, really? How can I order downloads?

[myonlake]

Use the download_priority_group tag in your meta.xml file.