messageclient(); does not work?

[deathrider]

it works like the script is error free but when i do /message deathrider hi in game nothing shows up. This is really starting to piss me off.

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function servercmdmessage(%client, %user, %message)
{
%name = findclientbyname(%user);
  if(isobject(%user))
    {
    messageclient(%user,'',"Message from :" @ %client.name @ ": message: " @ %message);
    }
    else
    {
    messageclient(%client,'',"The username " @ %user @ " does not exist!");
    }
}
i also need to know how to let a variable use more than one word see when i make the message only one word will come i also need this for the user.

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[Nexus]

you are getting your %user and %name mixed up.  Take a deep breath and look carefully at when you want it to use %user, which is just a word that you type in, or %name, which is the client found from the function findclientbyname(%user);

[Axolotl]

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function servercmdmessage(%client, %user, %message)
{
%name = findclientbyname(%user);
  if(isobject(%name))
    {
        messageclient(%user,'',"Message from :" @ %client.name @ ": message: " @ %message);
    }
    else
    {
        messageclient(%client,'',"The username " @ %user @ " does not exist!");
    }
}

[Treynolds416]

-snip-

/facepalm

[Lugnut]

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function servercmdmessage(%client, %user, %message)
{
%name = findclientbyname(%user);
  if(isobject(%name))
    {
        messageclient(%name,'',"Message from :" @ %client.name @ ": message: " @ %message);
    }
    else
    {
        messageclient(%client,'',"The username " @ %user @ " does not exist!");
    }
}

[deathrider]

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function servercmdmessage(%client, %user, %message)
{
%name = findclientbyname(%user);
  if(isobject(%name))
    {
        messageclient(%name,'',"Message from :" @ %client.name @ ": message: " @ %message);
    }
    else
    {
        messageclient(%client,'',"The username " @ %user @ " does not exist!");
    }
}

ok i se what i did wrong i was trying to see if a word exists not the player so every single time it would go tell me that my word does not exist

[Nexus]

ok i se what i did wrong i was trying to see if a word exists not the player so every single time it would go tell me that my word does not exist

Exactly.  A good way to make sure you don't make that mistake again is by having %user = findclientbyname(%user); at the beginning of the function so you know that it is going to be an object and don't have an extra variable floating around just to confuse you

[deathrider]

Exactly.  A good way to make sure you don't make that mistake again is by having %user = findclientbyname(%user); at the beginning of the function so you know that it is going to be an object and don't have an extra variable floating around just to confuse you

ok, now i just look at other scripts on how they add colors to their text

[deathrider]

how do i get this to only do it once when you spawn in the server not every time you spawn

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function gameConnection::spawnplayer(%client)
{
  messageClient(%client, '', '\c6This server is running the Personal Message mod \c6use \c3/message USER MESSAGE \c6to send them a personal message.');
}

[Ipquarx]

Use gameConnection::onClientEnterGame.
But parent it, and package it.

[Nexus]

how do i get this to only do it once when you spawn in the server not every time you spawn

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function gameConnection::spawnplayer(%client)
{
  messageClient(%client, '', '\c6This server is running the Personal Message mod \c6use \c3/message USER MESSAGE \c6to send them a personal message.');
}

you should use regular "quotes" instead of 'apostrophes' around the words you want people to read, because apostrophes work differently.  Honestly I myself don't really understand it entirely, but generally:
If you are sending a command, it goes in apostrophes.
If you are sending a string for the player to read, it goes in quotes.

If someone could clarify it better that would be nice.

[deathrider]

you should use regular "quotes" instead of 'apostrophes' around the words you want people to read, because apostrophes work differently.  Honestly I myself don't really understand it entirely, but generally:
If you are sending a command, it goes in apostrophes.
If you are sending a string for the player to read, it goes in quotes.

If someone could clarify it better that would be nice.

i think it needs to be ' as /c6 is a command if i have read right from other scrips this one i learnt from cell phone mod

Use gameConnection::onClientEnterGame.
But parent it, and package it.

i have no idea how to package i know its a command no topics how to

[deathrider]

i only need one thing, how to allow the var to allow more than one word

[Treynolds416]

i only need one thing, how to allow the var to allow more than one word

You can add more variables, like this:

function servercmdmessage(%client,%user,%msg1,%msg2,%msg3,etc)

Be careful though, I think the limit for arguments is around 13 or 15

[deathrider]

You can add more variables, like this:

function servercmdmessage(%client,%user,%msg1,%msg2,%msg3,etc)

Be careful though, I think the limit for arguments is around 13 or 15

aw i was thinking i could do it like batch the more words you type it ads 1 to a var so it be

you say hi
code:%message

you say hello how are you
code: message message2 message 3