[KrazyKat]

Hi guys,

I was working on sending a large message to console using client_cmd, but I don't want to use it multiple times. For example:

client_cmd(id, "echo ^"Welcome to my server!^nYou can type /help for help regarding this game.^"")

instead of

client_cmd(id, "echo ^"Welcome to my server!^"")
client_cmd(id, "echo ^"You can type /help for help regarding this game.^"")

When I tried the 1st example, I received invalid character constant error, and I don't know how to rectify this. Can anyone help me please?

[OciXCrom]

Why would you use "client_cmd" with "echo" instead of console_print/client_print? That's ridiculous.

PS: echo doesn't even support newline.

[KrazyKat]

Originally Posted by OciXCrom Why would you use "client_cmd" with "echo" instead of console_print/client_print? That's ridiculous. PS: echo doesn't even support newline.

Thank you, that makes much more sense. I didn't think of it earlier and went about using client_cmd after seeing it being used in another plugin. Appreciate your help.

[KrazyKat]

Hey OciX, I tried using console_print, but it doesn't work even though I've placed it as a function that loads in client_putinserver. How should I allow the commands to work as soon as someone joins the server?

[fysiks]

That should work. Show your code so we can see if maybe there is a mistake causing this. You could also do a little debugging by adding in a delay with set_task() to see if there is anyhing weird going on.

[KrazyKat]

Originally Posted by fysiks That should work. Show your code so we can see if maybe there is a mistake causing this. You could also do a little debugging by adding in a delay with set_task() to see if there is anyhing weird going on.

I tried doing these:

new message[512];
formatex(message, 511, "============================================ ^n
Welcome to %s ^n
Type /help to receive more help about the mod.^n
Type /commands to receive the set of commands for this server.^n
Type /info to receive your statistics [Rank, Kills, Deaths]^n
Type /rtv to change the mod.^n
============================================" , hostname);
console_print(id, "%s", message)

And this:
console_print(id, "============================================ ")
console_print(id, "Welcome to %s ", hostname)
console_print(id, "Type /help to receive more help about the mod.")
console_print(id, "Type /commands to receive the set of commands for this server.")
console_print(id, "Type /info to receive your statistics [Rank, Kills, Deaths]")
console_print(id, "Type /rtv to change the mod.")
console_print(id, "============================================ ")

These were put in a function consoleinfo(id) that was loaded in client_putinserver(id). I'll try using set_task for this to check if it works.

[OciXCrom]

Post the full code. There's no reason for it not to work from what you told us. Check if you spelled client_putinserver() correctly.

PS: don't hardcode buffer lengths. Use charsmax(message) instead of 511.
PS2: no reason to use formatex() and a variable since console_print() supports direct string formatting.