Get money from server

[The0liver]

Hi Facepunchers!

How do I get the ammount of money the users has, from the server, to the client?

I have the function getMoney(ply) in init.lua:

[lua]
function getMoney( ply )
if(file.Exists( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt" )) then
return tonumber(file.Read( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt"))
else
ply:PrintMessage(HUD_PRINTTALK, "The system didnt find your money file..\nCreating..\n")

file.Write( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", 15 )
ply:PrintMessage(HUD_PRINTTALK, "Created! You do as default have 15$")
return 15
end
end
[/lua]

But I want to get the money into a variable, so I can draw it on the clients HUD. How do I do this?

[lua]
moneyText = "" -- money ammount
[/lua]

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[Freakie]

Supposedly this is for in-game currencies, right?

[The0liver]

Correct.

[editline]12:36PM[/editline]

The money system works, I just wanna draw the ammount of money to the clients HUD, so they dont get confused.

[Python1320]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=User_Messages[/url]
or on server (when money changes or gets set up) ply:ConCommand('setmoney '..tostring(getMoney(ply))) or something and make a command on client ( [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=ConVar[/url] ) which receives this command and sets a local client's variable.

So many ways, I don't know which one would be efficient for your case.

[The0liver]

Testing..

[editline]01:12PM[/editline]

Well, in the console it says, that it updated my money, but it doesnt update the HUD, whats wrong? (I get no errors)

cl_init.lua

[lua]
----------------------------
-- HUD
----------------------------
moneyText = 0
function updateMoney(uMoney)
moneyText = uMoney:ReadLong()
end

function drawHUD()
teamBoxHeight = 47
teamBoxWidth = 240
teamBoxX = ScrW() / 2 - teamBoxWidth / 2
teamBoxY = teamBoxHeight / 2 - 5
teamBoxBorder = 6

moneyBoxHeight = 47
moneyBoxWidth = 40
moneyBoxX = teamBoxX + 6 + teamBoxWidth
moneyBoxY = teamBoxY
moneyBoxBorder = 6

teamText = team.GetName( LocalPlayer():Team() )
draw.RoundedBox( teamBoxBorder, teamBoxX, teamBoxY, teamBoxWidth, teamBoxHeight, Color( 0, 0, 0, 150 ) )
draw.RoundedBox( moneyBoxBorder, moneyBoxX, moneyBoxY, moneyBoxWidth, moneyBoxHeight, Color( 0, 0, 0, 150 ) )
draw.SimpleText( teamText, "ScoreboardText", teamBoxX + teamBoxWidth / 2 - string.len(teamText) + 3, teamBoxY + teamBoxHeight / 2, team.GetColor( LocalPlayer():Team() ), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
draw.SimpleText( tostring(moneyText) .. "$", "ScoreboardText", moneyBoxX + moneyBoxWidth / 2 - string.len(moneyText) + 3, moneyBoxY + moneyBoxHeight / 2, Color( 0, 255, 0, 255), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
end

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "GDomHUD", drawHUD)
[/lua]

init.lua

[lua]
function saveMoney( ply, ammount )
if(file.Exists( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt" )) then
file.Write( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", ammount )
else
ply:PrintMessage(HUD_PRINTTALK, "The system didnt find your money file..\nCreating..\n")

file.Write( "GDom\content\data\\" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", 15 )
ply:PrintMessage(HUD_PRINTTALK, "Created! You do as default have 15$")
end

updateClient(ply, ammount)
end

function updateClient(ply, ammount)
local daPlayer = RecipientFilter()
daPlayer:AddPlayer(ply)

umsg.Start("updateMoney", daPlayer)
umsg.Long( ammount )
umsg.End()

print("Updated " .. ply:Name() .. "s money")
end
[/lua]

[Python1320]

Hook the function updateMoney(uMoney) :)

[LUA]
usermessage.Hook("updateMoney",function(uMoney)
moneyText = uMoney:ReadLong()
end)
[/LUA]

[The0liver]

Lol :lol: Good idea! XD.

[editline]01:18PM[/editline]

Worked perfectly! :yay:

[editline]01:18PM[/editline]

Smiley fail, lol.