VGUI Question

[Cheissos]

Hello people
If I were to have something like this, how would I make it so I can open the actual panel with a console command and a chat command? Both using something like...

ConsoleCommand = "openmenu"
ChatCommand = "!openmenu"

I don't really know what to look for, for console and chat commands to open the panel... Help would be appreciated.

function UserPanel()

		frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
		frame:SetPos( 50, 50 )
		frame:SetSize( 400, 1000 )
		frame:SetTitle( "Test" )
		frame:SetVisible( true )
		frame:SetDraggable( false )
		frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
		frame:MakePopup()
		
end

[Snappy29]

For a Console command use [URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/concommand/Add"]concommand.Add[/URL]

While for a chat command you'll have to use the [URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/PlayerSay"]PlayerSay Hook[/URL] check when the player types the keywords and trigger the menu using the net library as the Hook is Server Side.

[Cheissos]

So would the PlayerSay for chat command be something like...

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", 0, function( ply, text )
	if ( string.sub( text, 1, 5 ) == "!menu" ) then
		UserPanel:MakePopup()
	end
end)

I'm assuming the UserPanel:MakePopup is incorrect, And as for this line

if ( string.sub( text, 1, 5 ) == "!menu" ) then

I couldn't think in my head how I would physically make it use a variable ( ChatCommand )

[Snappy29]

Yeah that would work, however due to the VGUI been created on Client and the hook running on the Server. You will have to do something like this

if SERVER then

util.AddNetworkString("chatCommand") -- caches the message to be sent later on

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "ThisNeedsToBeAString", function( ply, text )
	if ( string.sub( text, 1, 5 ) == "!menu" ) then
		net.Start("chatCommand") -- Starts the message to client to trigger the panel
                net.Send(ply) -- Sends the message to the player who typed "!menu"
	end
end)


else

    function UserPanel()

    end
    net.Receive("chatCommand",UserPanel) -- Once the message is sent, this will fire the userPanel function creating the menu

end

Think this should work, but that's the general idea I believe.

EDIT: Sorry messed up, fixed it now.

[Cheissos]

It seems that it gives me a shot ton of ulx errors, and at the same time Doesn't do anything when I type !menu I'll give it a go with how you did it, and see the result.

EDIT: I can't seem to figure out how to do it, from what I can tell the error is pointing to this line
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", 0, function( ply, text )

[Snappy29]

Sorry fixed it the unique identifier on the hook.Add needs to be a string.

[Cheissos]

It works great, I got console command added too, my next question is, how would I go about centering this?

		frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
		frame:SetPos( 50, 50 )
		frame:SetSize( 400, 600 )
		frame:SetTitle( "Test" )
		frame:SetVisible( true )
		frame:SetDraggable( false )
		frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
		frame:MakePopup()

EDIT:
Just noticed when I tried to get it to use chatCommand it doesn't actually work with the chat command... example.

if ( string.sub( text, 1, 11 ) == chatCommand ) then

I assumed it would be that, but it didn't work so I tried this

if ( string.sub() == chatCommand ) then

That also didn't work, but it returned this inside console

[ERROR] addons/addon/lua/autorun/ui.lua:6: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got no value)
	1. sub - [C]:1
		2. fn - addons/addon/lua/autorun/ui.lua:6

Which then again, points back to this line

if ( string.sub( text, 1, 11 ) == chatCommand ) then

EDIT 2:

if ( string.sub( chatCommand, 1, 11 )) then

Allows it to work for the sorda... but it also you know... allows it to open with anything at all that is typed

[Lolcats]

frame:Center()

if (string.sub(text, 1, 9) == "!openmenu") then

[Cheissos]

See, the thing about what you showed me up above, I want it to read from this of which I have in another line

chatCommand = "!openmenu"

Which is why I tried getting it to use chatCommand

[Lolcats]

Don't make a global chatCommand. Just localize it in the top of your script.

if (string.sub(text, 1, 9) == chatCommand) then

string.sub() takes 3 arguments:
1. The text to check
2. the starting position
3. the ending position
Since your actual command is only 9 letters long, you use 9 instead of 11.

[Cheissos]

Ahh sweet, I didn't know that was how it actually worked, thanks. Also I was looking at a derma thing on the forums, and it shows something like this...

MenuButton.DoClick = function ( btn )
    local MenuButtonOptions = DermaMenu() -- Creates the menu
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("hello", function() Msg("Hello") end ) -- Add options to the menu
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("how", function() Msg("How") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("are", function() Msg("Are") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("you", function() Msg("You") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("?", function() Msg("?") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:Open() -- Open the menu AFTER adding your options
end

It seems that from what I can tell is actually outdated, as when I gave that a try, it physically didn't do anything when I left or right clicked, any clues? thanks.

[Lolcats]

Because you have to bind it to a [URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/VGUI/Elements/DButton"]DButton[/URL], or something similar.

local DButton = vgui.Create( "DButton" )
DButton:SetPos( 40, 40 )
DButton:SetText( "Please click me!" )
DButton:SetSize( 120, 60 )
DButton.DoClick = function ( btn )
    local MenuButtonOptions = DermaMenu() -- Creates the menu
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("hello", function() Msg("Hello") end ) -- Add options to the menu
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("how", function() Msg("How") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("are", function() Msg("Are") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("you", function() Msg("You") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:AddOption("?", function() Msg("?") end )
    MenuButtonOptions:Open() -- Open the menu AFTER adding your options
end

DermaMenu() is just a shorthand way of doing vgui.Create("DMenu")

[Cheissos]

Well how would I use that with options inside a DListView?

local PlayerView = vgui.Create("DListView", frame2)

I tried something like this

		local PlayerView = vgui.Create("DListView", frame2)
		PlayerView:SetPos(25, 10)
		PlayerView:SetSize(450, 674)
		PlayerView:SetMultiSelect(false)
		PlayerView:AddColumn("List of Players")
		PlayerView.DoClick = function ( btn )
			local PlayerViewOptions = DermaMenu() -- Creates the menu
			PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("hello", function() Msg("Hello") end ) -- Add options to the menu
			PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("how", function() Msg("How") end )
			PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("are", function() Msg("Are") end )
			PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("you", function() Msg("You") end )
			PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("?", function() Msg("?") end )
			PlayerViewOptions:Open() -- Open the menu AFTER adding your options
		end

Which didn't seem to work

[Lolcats]

Use PlayerView.OnClickLine = function()

[Cheissos]

Alright that works, thanks.. my next question is, How would I customize the part that says List Of Players?
I'm assuming this wouldn't work because it would customize the hole thing? Am I wrong? Any pointers?

PlayerView.Paint = function( self, w, h )

[Lolcats]

Not too sure about that one. I played around with it, and this:

PlayerView:AddColumn("List of Players").Paint = function()
    draw.RoundedBox(4, 0, 0, PlayerView:GetWide(), PlayerView:GetTall(), Color(255, 0, 0))
end

Caused it to draw the colored box, but I couldn't figure out a way to hide the normal one.

You can try looking at these:
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index64cf.html[/url]
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index9fd3.html[/url]

[Acecool]

[QUOTE=Cheissos;45261259]It works great, I got console command added too, my next question is, how would I go about centering this?

		frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
		frame:SetPos( 50, 50 )
		frame:SetSize( 400, 600 )
		frame:SetTitle( "Test" )
		frame:SetVisible( true )
		frame:SetDraggable( false )
		frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
		frame:MakePopup()

EDIT:[/QUOTE]

After you SetSize, call Center( ) on it.

[Cheissos]

[QUOTE=Lolcats;45261604]Not too sure about that one. I played around with it, and this:

PlayerView:AddColumn("List of Players").Paint = function()
    draw.RoundedBox(4, 0, 0, PlayerView:GetWide(), PlayerView:GetTall(), Color(255, 0, 0))
end

Caused it to draw the colored box, but I couldn't figure out a way to hide the normal one.

You can try looking at these:
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index64cf.html[/url]
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index9fd3.html[/url][/QUOTE]
See, i've been looking at that derma thing or whatever, I don't entirely see how to hide the default box though, it should normally hide whenever .paint is used, from what I can tell at least.

EDIT:
Giving it a try now, but how would I use this with you know, auto updating the player list without having to reopen the UI? Would be very helpful, any pointers? Something I can look at for this?
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index9fd3.html[/url]

PlayerView:AddColumn("List of Players").Paint = function()
    draw.RoundedBox(4, 0, 0, PlayerView:GetWide(), PlayerView:GetTall(), Color(255, 0, 0))
end

This doesn't seem to effect it at all for some reason, so i'm not sure.

[Lolcats]

Auto Updating would look weird. You'd probably have to look into using [URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Net_Library_Usage"]Net Messages[/URL] and the [URL="http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index2901.html"]PlayerInitialSpawn [/URL]hook. I would recommend just having a refresh button.

Also, That definitely affects it, but it's set to only Paint in the bounds of the box that is covering it. If you look closely you can see like, 4 red pixels.

[Cheissos]

If I were to have a refresh button, how would I have that auto refresh? I just generally don't want something that clutters the UI

[Lolcats]

If you're really curious about the button route, you could look at [URL="https://github.com/LolcatsV2/CATpublic/blob/master/catv1/lua/cat_menu.lua#L173"]how I do it[/URL] with my (cluttered) admin mod. It's really just a bunch of net messages bouncing back and forth.

[Cheissos]

If I were to have a line in the submenu like this for example

PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("Kick", function() RunConsoleCommand("ulx kick bot12") end ) -- Add options to the menu

How would I actually make it so it kicks the player that is selected?

[Lolcats]

PlayerView.OnClickLine = function(line, something)
    local PlayerViewOptions = DermaMenu() -- Creates the menu
    PlayerViewOptions:AddOption("Kick", function() RunConsoleCommand("ulx", "kick", line:GetValue()) end ) -- Add options to the menu
end

That is, assuming your only value on the line is the player's name.

Anyways, you can add me on [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/id/beimir/"]Steam [/URL]if you need additional help, since I have a feeling there's going to be additional questions.