Counting Group Members

[Snow-Man]

i'm making group system and i have got a problem to count group member using 

setElementData

getElementData

 

function getGroupMembers(group)
    if (not group) then return false end
    local memberCount = getElementData(group, "Members") or 0
    return tonumber(memberCount)                                                            
end

 

Edited December 10, 2016 by Snow-Man

[LoPollo]

where do you set the member count of a group? post that block/function(s)

Edited December 10, 2016 by LoPollo

[Snow-Man]

function createGroup(groupName)
	local account = getPlayerAccount(client)
	if (isGuestAccount(account)) then return end
	if (groupName) then
		outputChatBox(groupName.." is already an existing group", client, 255, 0, 0)
			return
		end
		setElementData(client, "Group", groupName)
		setElementData(client, "Rank", "Founder")
		setElementData(groupName, "Members", 1)
		outputChatBox("You have succesfully made a group called "..groupName, client, 0, 255, 0)
	end
addEvent("createGroup", true)
addEventHandler("createGroup", root, createGroup)

that's a part of creating Group

[LoPollo]

createTeam
Why not use it?

 

and what do you want to do with

if (groupName) then
outputChatBox(groupName.." is already an existing group", client, 255, 0, 0)
return
end

?

 

Answer to you question: it's a data bound to the player, you are not passing the player in the first post. You are passing "group", is it a string or what?

Edited December 10, 2016 by LoPollo

[Snow-Man]

I'm making Group system not team

[LoPollo]

ok, sorry i didn't understand.

I think you should keep track of the group as a separate element, instead of setting a player data. I'm not sure, i never used it, but createElement can be used to create an element right? create an element in which you store all the necessary data, if you really need an element. 

Another solution is to make a table that stores all the informations, it will be easier to manage also.

local groups = {
  --["yourGroupName"] = { members = {somePlayer1, somePlayer2}, color = {255,255,255}, whatever = someValue },
}

--member count of "yourGroupName" = #groups.yourGroupName.members

 

[Snow-Man]

i'm thinking to attach members to group and get info using player

how can i do that?

like tree elements in same time

[LoPollo]

Players are not meant to be used as data storage/database. I don't think that the elemnet tree can be used in this way to get data