Returning from server side to client side

[Konth]

Hey there,
Basically, I have a quest/mission system that I've made, and I'm stuck on on thing - I made a global cooldown timer for each quest, before the player can take the mission again. I'm using the net
library for my quest/mission system. The problem is that when the players open the gui, it needs to check if the timer still on cooldown, and return a boolean(or any other method, doesn't matter), the timer is on serverside, so is there a way to use the net library to return variables? or any alternate way to do it to call it from clientside and return it back to clientside?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks for reading.

[Rubat]

You'll need to send those values/booleans using net when player opens the menu. Make serverside concommand to open the menu which will send a net message, on client in net.Receive open your panel and process data.

[Konth]

That's how I had it

Server-side

function KQNPCS.ReturnTimer(id, ply)
	net.Start(Tag.."_ReturnTimer" )
		local exists
		if timer.Exists("Quest_"..id) then
			print("Exists")
			exists = 1
		else
			print("Doesn't Exists")
			exists = 0
		end
		net.WriteFloat(exists)
	net.Send(ply)
end

net.Receive(Tag.."_FindTimer", function(Len, Client) 
	local ply = Client
	local id = net.ReadFloat()
	KQNPCS.ReturnTimer(id, Client)
end)

Client-Side:

	net.Start(Tag.."_FindTimer")
		net.WriteFloat( Tbl.id)
	net.SendToServer()
	
	local Avaliable
	net.Receive( Tag.. "_ReturnTimer", function()
		Avaliable = net.ReadFloat()
	end)
		print(Avaliable)

However, if I print the 'Avaliable' within the net.Receive, it prints 0 or 1, if I print it outside of the net.Receive, it prints nil.
Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong?

[thegrb93]

The way I would do it is, console command from client to server "quest_check_cooldown", then server to client via the umsg library.

[quentuz]

[QUOTE=thegrb93;41558270]The way I would do it is, console command from client to server "quest_check_cooldown", then server to client via the umsg library.[/QUOTE]
Wont work

[Konth]

Bump

[MeepDarknessM]

What I do for my things is something like this

(lua/autorun)
[lua]
local name = "a name"
if SERVER then
net.Receive(name, function(len, ply)
ply:SendLua("function GetMyBool() return "..tostring(boolean that needs to be sent).." end")
end)
end

if CLIENT then
function GetMyBool()
return false
end
function ObtainUpdatedBool()
net.Start(name)
net.SendToServer()
end
end
[/lua]

and for the shtuff

[lua]
ObtainUpdatedBool()
timer.Simple(0.5, function()
local bool = GetMyBool()
end)
[/lua]