GUI help - button makes player talk

[Gen. Hothauser]

On a GUI, how would I make a button that, when pressed, made the player enter something into their text field.

My use for this is, when someone clicks a brick, a restaurant menu GUI pops up with buttons next to the dishes, and when the player clicks a button, it makes the player say "/C restaurant [food item]", which uses the cmd events to then trigger more events to work.

I stripped the code from the prompt events to get my GUI to pop up when the event is triggered, so all I need is the button help.

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[Mr. Wallet]

So let's talk a little bit about what happens when you send a chat message.

When a player types something into the chat field, what normally happens is that the game grabs all the text in the chat area, and puts it into a string, let's call it %message. Then the game (still on the client side) runs a function called commandToServer() which is basically how all scripted communication from the client to the server happens. Specifically, it calls

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commandToServer('MessageSent', %message);(Note the single quotes, not double quotes; this is important in this case.)
When the client calls this function on its own machine, the end result is a transmission to the server, which causes the server to run

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serverCmdMessageSent(%client, %message);
The exception to this is when the chat starts with a slash. When this is detected, the chat is not sent to the server at all. Instead, a different commandToServer() is sent, specifically the one after the slash, with everything after that being arguments separated by spaces. So "/C restaurant [food_item]" will run:

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commandToServer('C', %shop, %item);where %shop is "restaurant" and %item is "[food_item]". This makes the server call

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serverCmdC(%client, %shop, %item);
So to answer your question, routing through the chat system would be clumsy and is entirely unnecessary. The "command" field of your button only needs to have:

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commandToServer('C', "restaurant", "item");

[Swollow]

don't forget you need to include the client

commandToServer('C', %client, "restaurant", "item");
wait stuff thats only for server, sorry

[Port]

don't forget you need to include the client

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commandToServer('C', %client, "restaurant", "item");


... what?