[BeetleFart]

Does anyone know how to send text to a client that will display in the
say text area?

i dont think the helpers->CreateMessage( pEntity, DIALOG_MSG, kv, this ); does this.

[Johnny got his gun]

I use this as a member function of my plugin's class:

	void ClientMsg(edict_t* pEntity, const unsigned int TIME, const DIALOG_TYPE TYPE, const char* FORMAT, ...) {
		tchar szBuf[256];
		va_list arg_ptr;
		va_start(arg_ptr, FORMAT);
		_vsntprintf(szBuf, sizeof(szBuf)-1, FORMAT, arg_ptr);
		va_end(arg_ptr);

		szBuf[sizeof(szBuf)-1] = 0;

		KeyValues *kv = new KeyValues("msg");
		kv->SetString("title", szBuf);
		kv->SetString("msg", "This is the msg");
		kv->SetColor("color", Color(10, 240, 10, 255));
		kv->SetInt("level", 5);
		kv->SetInt("time", TIME);
		helpers->CreateMessage(pEntity, TYPE, kv, this);
		kv->deleteThis();
	}

Example use:

ClientMsg(pEntity, 5, DIALOG_MSG, "You have %d turtles", turtlesCount)

Can't be used for console messages though. But it would be easy to make it work for that also, altering the third parameter. Maybe creating a new enum:

	typedef enum
	{
		MSG_CHAT = 0, // just an on screen message
		MSG_MENU, // an options menu
		MSG_RICH, // a richtext dialog
		MSG_CONSOLE,
	} DIALOG_TYPE_EXTENDED;
	void ClientMsg(edict_t* pEntity, const unsigned int TIME, const DIALOG_TYPE_EXTENDED TYPE, const char* FORMAT, ...) {
		tchar szBuf[256];
		va_list arg_ptr;
		va_start(arg_ptr, FORMAT);
		_vsntprintf(szBuf, sizeof(szBuf)-1, FORMAT, arg_ptr);
		va_end(arg_ptr);

		switch (TYPE) {
			case MSG_CONSOLE: {
				szBuf[sizeof(szBuf) - 1] = '\n';
				szBuf[sizeof(szBuf)] = 0;

				engine->ClientPrintf(pEntity, szBuf);
				break;
			}
			default: {
				szBuf[sizeof(szBuf)-1] = 0;
				KeyValues *kv = new KeyValues("msg");
				kv->SetString("title", szBuf);
				kv->SetString("msg", "This is the msg");
				kv->SetColor("color", Color(10, 240, 10, 255));
				kv->SetInt("level", 5);
				kv->SetInt("time", TIME);
				helpers->CreateMessage(pEntity, (DIALOG_TYPE)TYPE, kv, this);
				kv->deleteThis();
			 }
		}
	}