Trying (and failing) to add motd-like donation menu.

[RalphORama]

Brief explanation everything because I'm hella tired:
I want players to be able to type '!donate' in chat and be rewarded with a popup window like that of the standard MOTD, but instead directed towards the donation page.

Here's what I have (patched together from multiple threads):

Code: Lua

1. -- in addons/ulx/lua/ulx/modules/sh/donate.lua
2. CATEGORY_NAME = "Community Links"
3.  
4. --donate menu
5. function ulx.donate( ply )
6.         local isUrl             --everything from here to 'end' is pretty much ripped straight from motdmenu.lua
7.         local url
8.         local window = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
9.        
10.         if ScrW() > 640 then -- Make it larger if we can.
11.                 window:SetSize( ScrW()*0.9, ScrH()*0.9 )
12.         else
13.                 window:SetSize( 640, 480 )
14.         end
15.         window:Center()
16.         window:SetTitle( "Donate to the Server!" )
17.         window:SetVisible( true )
18.         window:SetDraggable( false )
19.         window:ShowCloseButton( false )
20.         window:MakePopup()
21.  
22.         local html = vgui.Create( "HTML", window )
23.  
24.         local button = vgui.Create( "DButton", window )
25.         button:SetText( "Close" )
26.         button.DoClick = function() window:Close() end
27.         button:SetSize( 100, 40 )
28.         button:SetPos( (window:GetWide() - button:GetWide()) / 2, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 10 )
29.  
30.         html:SetSize( window:GetWide() - 20, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 50 )
31.         html:SetPos( 10, 30 )
32.         html:OpenURL( "https://sq10.net/don8/" )        -- the url for the window to open
33. end
34.  
35. local donate = ulx.command( CATEGORY_NAME, "ulx donate", ulx.donate, "!donate" )                --add the command
36. donate:defaultAccess( ULib.ACCESS_ALL )
37. donate:help( "Donate $10 for VIP commands and access to pointshop!" )

When I join my server and type '!donate' in chat or 'ulx donate' in console, I get no error about missing a command (like I would if I typed 'ulx asdaf' in console), but no window appears and fills me with glee. How do I fix this?

[Neku]

Hm, are you sure it's actually creating the window?

I've never edited anything major in this part of ulx, so I can only be of small help.

[RalphORama]

Hm, are you sure it's actually creating the window?

I've never edited anything major in this part of ulx, so I can only be of small help.

One thought I had whilst trying to debug this was that since this is in modules/sh instead of modules/cl (where motdmenu.lua is), there might be something going wonky when it tries to create the DFrame, etc. Not sure how to fix this though, maybe add another script with the function in it, drop that in modules/cl, and have this script execute it?
I'll try that.

Edit: new code:

Code: Lua

1. function ulx.donate( ply )
2.         ply:SendLua([[
3.                 local isUrl             --everything from here to 'end' is pretty much ripped straight from motdmenu.lua
4.                 local url
5.                 local window = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
6.          
7.                 if ScrW() > 640 then -- Make it larger if we can.
8.                         window:SetSize( ScrW()*0.9, ScrH()*0.9 )
9.                 else
10.                         window:SetSize( 640, 480 )
11.                 end
12.                 window:Center()
13.                 window:SetTitle( "Donate to the Server!" )
14.                 window:SetVisible( true )
15.                 window:SetDraggable( false )
16.                 window:ShowCloseButton( false )
17.                 window:MakePopup()
18.          
19.                 local html = vgui.Create( "HTML", window )
20.          
21.                 local button = vgui.Create( "DButton", window )
22.                 button:SetText( "Close" )
23.                 button.DoClick = function() window:Close() end
24.                 button:SetSize( 100, 40 )
25.                 button:SetPos( (window:GetWide() - button:GetWide()) / 2, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 10 )
26.          
27.                 html:SetSize( window:GetWide() - 20, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 50 )
28.                 html:SetPos( 10, 30 )
29.                 html:OpenURL( "https://sq10.net/don8/" )
30.         ]])
31. end
32. local donate = ulx.command( CATEGORY_NAME, "ulx donate", ulx.donate, "!donate" )
33. donate:defaultAccess( ULib.ACCESS_ALL )
34. donate:help( "Donate $10 for VIP commands and access to pointshop!" )

It gives me this error (through the server console, not locally) when I type '!donate' in chat:
DLL_MessageEnd:  Refusing to send user message LuaCmd of 256 bytes to client, user message size limit is 255 bytes


The actual filesize is 1,252 bytes, according to filezilla.

[Bytewave]

Code: Lua

1. -- in addons/ulx/lua/ulx/modules/sh/donate.lua
2. CATEGORY_NAME = "Community Links"
3.  
4. --donate menu
5. function ulx.donate( ply )
6.         if CLIENT then
7.         local isUrl             --everything from here to 'end' is pretty much ripped straight from motdmenu.lua
8.         local url
9.         local window = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
10.  
11.         if ScrW() > 640 then -- Make it larger if we can.
12.                 window:SetSize( ScrW()*0.9, ScrH()*0.9 )
13.         else
14.                 window:SetSize( 640, 480 )
15.         end
16.         window:Center()
17.         window:SetTitle( "Donate to the Server!" )
18.         window:SetVisible( true )
19.         window:SetDraggable( false )
20.         window:ShowCloseButton( false )
21.         window:MakePopup()
22.  
23.         local html = vgui.Create( "HTML", window )
24.  
25.         local button = vgui.Create( "DButton", window )
26.         button:SetText( "Close" )
27.         button.DoClick = function() window:Close() end
28.         button:SetSize( 100, 40 )
29.         button:SetPos( (window:GetWide() - button:GetWide()) / 2, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 10 )
30.  
31.         html:SetSize( window:GetWide() - 20, window:GetTall() - button:GetTall() - 50 )
32.         html:SetPos( 10, 30 )
33.         html:OpenURL( "https://sq10.net/don8/" )        -- the url for the window to open
34.         elseif SERVER then
35.              AddCSLuaFile( "lua/ulx/modules/sh/donate.lua" )
36.         else
37.              error( "i be in ur codez, messin' dem upz" )
38.         end
39. end
40.  
41. local donate = ulx.command( CATEGORY_NAME, "ulx donate", ulx.donate, "!donate" )                --add the command
42. donate:defaultAccess( ULib.ACCESS_ALL )
43. donate:help( "Donate $10 for VIP commands and access to pointshop!" )

Try that out for size..?

[RalphORama]

Try that out for size..?

Nope, same thing as earlier. No window, but no errors either.

[Cobalt]

You can't use all of those functions in shared like that. Use umsg to call a function on the client side that creates the menu.