How to make a custom scoreboard

[ramblingwood]

I can't find anywhere how to make a custom scoreboard, but I have seen it done on my servers with custom gamemodes.

I also considered making a vgui Dframe with a DListView that displayed the people on the sever and their scores. But I couldn't figure out how to only display that dialog when they are holding down the f key for example. I know it has something to do with + and - but I can't figure out how to bind the functions to the commands correctly.

[meka/sniper]

If you want a derma menu to open and close on the press and release of a key you should use something like this:
[lua]
-- bind f dermatest
concommand.Add( "+dermatest", Derma_test ) -- you put the name of the bind then you have it call what ever function makes the derma
concommand.Add( "-dermatest", function() Derma_test:Close() end ) -- this is when you release said bind, it closes the derma you set it to close.
[/lua]

[ramblingwood]

but like this people would have to manually bind a key to +dermatest right?

[meka/sniper]

Yes they would, An easier way would be for them to use Q, and use +menu and -menu.

[cloudwolf]

or you could allways over write the default scoreboard.... and have it on tab...

[ramblingwood]

Hmm. No matter what I do I can't seem to get it to recognize the + and - it just says Unknown Command error. When I try using +/-menu it just doesn't work. I am putting this at the end of my cl_init.lua Is that okay?

[editline]03:54PM[/editline]

how would i overwrite the default scoreboard?

I have found references to things like:
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Gamemode.HUDDrawScoreBoard[/url]
and
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Gamemode.ScoreboardShow[/url]

But that doesn't help

[Watercycle]

whoops, accident, didn't see the date!

[Chessnut]

Make your own panel object with a table and vgui.Register("yourscoreboard", PANEL).

Then open it with

[lua]
function GM:ScoreboardShow()
if ( !IsValid(self.scoreboard) ) then
self.scoreboard = vgui.Create("yourscoreboard")
end

self.scoreboard:Show()
end

function GM:ScoreboardHide()
if ( IsValid(self.scoreboard) ) then
self.scoreboard:Hide()
end
end
[/lua]

[tinos]

Thanks Chessnut, I had the same question