Please help while I still have hair...

[Blakestr]

I'm trying to record the time and IF a button is pressed. Every single time my variable table (it's a string) comes back blank. Why? I've tried with multiple people proficient in Lua and no one can tell me why it doesn't work. This was on a fresh gamemode (sandbox) too.

CLIENTSIDE:

include( "shared.lua" )

PanelTable = {}


function CreatePanel()
	PanelTable.base = vgui.Create("DFrame")
	PanelTable.base:SetSize(1800, 1000)
	PanelTable.base:SetPos(ScrW() / 2 - PanelTable.base:GetWide() / 2, ScrH() / 2 - PanelTable.base:GetTall() / 2)
	PanelTable.base:ShowCloseButton(true)
	PanelTable.base:MakePopup()
	PanelTable.base:SetVisible(true)
	PanelTable.base:SetDraggable(true)
	PanelTable.base:SetTitle("Instructor Panel")


	MyTabs = vgui.Create( "DPropertySheet", PanelTable.base )
	MyTabs:SetPos( 10, 30 )
	MyTabs:SetSize( 1700, 900 )
	MyTabs:AddSheet( "Main", FirePanel, nill, false, false, "Fire here" )

	FirePanel = vgui.Create("DPanel", MyTabs)
	FirePanel:SetSize(1700, 900)
	FirePanel:SetPos(10,30,1)
	FirePanel:SetPaintBackground( false )

	PanelTable.Button1	= vgui.Create( "DButton", FirePanel )
	PanelTable.Button1:SetSize(200, 100)
	PanelTable.Button1:SetPos(10,10,3)
	PanelTable.Button1:SetText( "Button 1" )
	PanelTable.Button1.DoClick = function (self)
		self.Pressed = true
		self.TimePressed = CurTime()
	end

	PanelTable.Button2	= vgui.Create( "DButton", FirePanel )
	PanelTable.Button2:SetSize(200, 100)
	PanelTable.Button2:SetPos(220,10,3)
	PanelTable.Button2:SetText( "Button 2" )
	PanelTable.Button2.DoClick = function (self)
		self.Pressed = true
		self.TimePressed = CurTime()
	end

	PanelTable.Button3	= vgui.Create( "DButton", FirePanel )
	PanelTable.Button3:SetSize(200, 100)
	PanelTable.Button3:SetPos(440,10,3)
	PanelTable.Button3:SetText( "Button 3" )
	PanelTable.Button3.DoClick = function (self)
		self.Pressed = true
		self.TimePressed = CurTime()

									
	end

	// PanelTable.button1 = vgui.Create("DButton", PanelTable.base)
	function PanelTable.base:OnClose()
		panels = FirePanel:GetChildren()
		

		if panels then
			local pressedbuttons = {}
			PrintTable(panels)

			for k, v in pairs(panels) do
				if v:GetClassName() == "DButton" then
					local button2 = { v:GetText() }

					if v.Pressed and v.TimePressed then
						table.insert(button2, v.TimePressed)
					end

					table.insert(pressedbuttons, button2)
				end
			end

			net.Start("SendPressedButtons")
				net.WriteTable(pressedbuttons)
			net.SendToServer()
		end
	end
end
concommand.Add("instructorpanel", CreatePanel) 

function ClearTable()
	PanelTable = {}
	
end

SERVERSIDE :

AddCSLuaFile( "cl_init.lua" )
AddCSLuaFile( "shared.lua" )

include( "shared.lua" )

util.AddNetworkString("PanelClosed")

net.Receive("PanelClosed", function(len, ply)
	local buttons = net.ReadTable()

	for k, v in pairs(buttons) do
		-- K is the name of the button (the text that you see)
		-- V is if the button is pressed or not
		file.Write( "Logfile.txt" , buttons )-- So, log stuff in here
	end
end)

util.AddNetworkString("SendPressedButtons")

net.Receive("SendPressedButtons", function(len, ply)
	local PanelTable = net.ReadTable()


	if not PanelTable then return end

	local TextToWrite = ""
	
	for k, v in pairs(PanelTable) do
		if v[2] and isnumber(v[2]) then
			 TextToWrite = TextToWrite .. "[" .. os.date("%m/%Y", v[2]) .. "]" .. "The button " .. v[1] .. " was pressed\n"
				
		else
			TextToWrite = TextToWrite .. "[NONE] The button " .. v[1] .. " was not pressed\n"
			
		end
	end

	ply:ChatPrint("Did it work... " .. TextToWrite)

	if file.Exists("person/" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", "DATA") then
		file.Append("person/" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", "\n\n" .. TextToWrite)
	else
		file.Write("person/" .. ply:UniqueID() .. ".txt", TextToWrite)
	end
	file.Write("helpme.txt", TextToWrite)
end)

You can see a chat message when I was trying to diagnose the problem. It prints : [QUOTE]1 = Panel: [name:Label][class:Label][10,10,200,100]
2 = Panel: [name:Label][class:Label][220,10,200,100]
3 = Panel: [name:Label][class:Label][440,10,200,100]
[/QUOTE] But I'm not sure how to use it...the file is never generated unless I manually do it like I did at the end (serverside). Even then, it gets update but it is always blank telling me the table I am using is always blank. I've tried ptuting the FirePanel inside the Paneltable and that doesn't change things

please help guys, I don't know how to debug this and I am going to pull out my hair and that's like my best feature.

[Exho]

File.Write generates a new file and adds the string to passed to it IIRC. So your serverside for loop in the PanelClosed net.receive just creates logfile.txt X number of times with a different string each time. Instead you should use file.Append.

[Blakestr]

[QUOTE=Exho;48767343]File.Write generates a new file and adds the string to passed to it IIRC. So your serverside for loop in the PanelClosed net.receive just creates logfile.txt X number of times with a different string each time. Instead you should use file.Append.[/QUOTE]

Would that explain why its blank though?

[Geferon]

[QUOTE=Exho;48767343]File.Write generates a new file and adds the string to passed to it IIRC. So your serverside for loop in the PanelClosed net.receive just creates logfile.txt X number of times with a different string each time. Instead you should use file.Append.[/QUOTE]

He is not looping throught file.Write all the time, hes only looping by the table, adding some text to the string, and finally writing it, so that if the file exists, it should append it, and if it doesnt, it writes it instead

[editline]27th September 2015[/editline]

Oh, you mean the first net.Receive, in there youre right