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[INC] ColorStatus

Description
With that inc you can send StatusText in 4 colors

But there are some limits

In message you can use only one color i.e. one color for all text
Maximum 196 chars
If player have console open when plugin send colored message he will see wrong color

Usage
First you must add initColorStatus() to your plugin_init
for example

Code:

public plugin_init() {

                register_plugin(PLUGIN, VERSION, AUTHOR)

                initColorStatus();

}

without that colorstatus won't work

Code:

makeStatusText(id,COLOR_STATUS:color,Float:fTime = 0.0,const szText[] = "",any:...)

id - player id which display colored text if id = 0 message will be send to all
color - message color
- RED_STATUS - red color
- BLUE_STATUS - blue color
- YELLOW_STATUS - yellow color
- GREY_STATUS - grey color
fTime - display time if fTime = 0.0 text will by on hud to override
szText - text to display you can formate text like in client_print

Example Code
statustext_test.sma in Attached Files

Code:

makeStatusText(id,GREY_STATUS,0.0,"Szary statustext");

grey text to one player forever

Code:

makeStatusText(0,RED_STATUS,0.0,"Czerwony statustext");

red text to all players forever

Code:

makeStatusText(0,BLUE_STATUS,5.0,"Niebieski statustext");

blue text to all players displayed for 5 seconds

Code:

makeStatusText(id,YELLOW_STATUS,5.0,"formatowany %d %s",1,"string");

formated message
yellow text to one player displayed for 5 seconds "formatowany 1 string"

Re: [INC] ColorStatus

If i remember well, this method with tasks doesn't work very well, i used to make something like that.
I hope yours is better.

Re: [INC] ColorStatus

Good job. I will use it when I need it. :)

Re: [INC] ColorStatus

You could implement a position changing hud_centerid.

Re: [INC] ColorStatus

This is pretty interesting. So you're using the ability to change all of the text chat colors, to simply change one line of text? Love it. I would definitely use this over color chat considering sometimes all I want to do is print a simple colored text line.

Re: [INC] ColorStatus

Quote:

Originally Posted by GXLZPGX (Post 1564628)

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Re: [INC] ColorStatus

Quote:

Originally Posted by GXLZPGX (Post 1564628)

StatusText, not SayText.

Like the display used in War3ft, where the XP amount is displayed constantly, level, race, etc...