What is a good way to unpack a table and print it with _G.MsgC?
The current issue is that the color is turned into a table and will just print the table.
The issue:
Just wondering if this has anything to do with it:
Unpack the table into separate variables and then put those variables into MsgC with proper concatenation. If concatenation isn’t the issue, I’d look at the syntax definition for MsgC:
MsgC( color, str, ... )
and say that you’re just printing the Color object instead of actually printing a coloured text output, because the returned stuff from unpack isn’t returning “Color rgb(…), “mystring”, …”
I don’t have Garry’s Mod 13, so I’m just going off of what seems wrong.
The issue is that unpack is returning a table rather than a color object, strange that it works for the first index.
cols = Color(255, 255, 255, 255)PrintTable(cols)
returns:
a = 255
b = 255
g = 255
r = 255
if it’s any help.
Yes I know, how would I get about turning the table into a color?
Would this work?
[lua]
local stuff(…)
local arguments = {…};
for k, v in pairs(arguments) do
if (type(v) == "table") then
v = Color(v.r, v.g, v.g, v.a);
end;
end;
MsgC(...);
end;
[/lua]
Yeah, if MsgC() doesn’t automatically print newlines and works on the same sort of stacking that regular Msg works with this should work (pretty similar to your way):
[lua]
function is_color(colorarr)
–Small thing to check for a color table
local flag = false
if type(colorarr) ~= “table” then return flag end
for k, _ in pairs(colorarr) do
if k == “r” or k == “g” or k == “b” or k == “a” then flag = true
else flag = false end
end
return flag
end
–Redacted
[/lua]
Couldn’t test the actual script, but if it follows what I asked about it, this is how I’d do it.
[editline]3rd May 2012[/editline]
Yeah, nevermind with the second part of that code. MsgC doesn’t stack like that. Sorry, don’t know what to do here. Hope someone else knows how to do this 
You cannot unpack tables that have no integral indexes or malformed indexes like this:
1:6546
3:5146
4:5616
5:5615
nevermind this but.
MsgC does only support 1 color and 1 text afaik.
Also
function isColor(tbl) return tbl.r and tbl.g and tbl.b and tbl.a end