Making a simple menu

[DankNessProvides]

I am just trying to make a simpler UI for ULX commands as some admins on a server I am staff on are complaining about how awkward it is and I just offered to make a simple menu for it, but I have one issue I am trying to make this menu appear whenever the player types "!adminpanel". But it is refusing to actually appear I have been told by a couple basic LUA devs it should appear, of course this is just the start but I don't really wanna make it when I don't know what it will look like. This file is located in "garrysmod/lua/autorun" and I don't know if that actually has to do with anything but just in case. All I want is little pointers as to what the issue is. :/

Code: [Select]

local frame = vgui.Create("DFrame")
frame:SetSize(1000,700)
frame:Center()
frame:SetVisible(true)
frame:MakePopup()

concommand.Add( "adminpanel", frame )

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
text = string.lower( text ) -- Make the chat message entirely lowercase
if ( text == "!adminpanel" ) then
frame
return ""
end
end )

[iViscosity]

It needs to be in lua/ulx/modules/cl if it doesn't exist, make it. Make a new folder in /addons though.

Also, do you want ulx or normal concommand? Ulx is much easier IMO.

[DankNessProvides]

It needs to be in lua/ulx/modules/cl if it doesn't exist, make it. Make a new folder in /addons though.

Also, do you want ulx or normal concommand? Ulx is much easier IMO.

This does not make any sense I want to make a UI that isn't in the ulx thing the buttons and stuff I want the thing I actually want is why won't it actually make the menu come up when I type in the command....

[roastchicken]

vgui is a client-side library, and thus must be run on the client. Simply putting the file in lua/autorun will not work. You need to run AddCSLuaFile() in the file to have clients download it.

As an alternative you can have it be loaded as a ULX module as iViscosity suggested. This will simply load the file with ULX, it will not change the code in any way nor will it style it like XGUI (ULX's menus).

[iViscosity]

The thing with ulx is it's much easier to make a command. It doesn't need to be run through the XGUI. If you were to do this it would have to be in your addons/<make a new folder>/lua/ulx/modules/cl it's much easier.

If you weren't to do this, however, remember that concommand.Add requires a function as it's second argument. As "frame" is not a function, it won't be called by it. If you did something like

Code: Lua

1. concommand.Add( "adminpanel", adminPanel() )

you would need a function before it that is like

Code: Lua

1. function adminPanel()
2.  
3.     local frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
4.     frame:SetSize(1000,700)
5.     frame:Center()
6.     frame:SetVisible(true)
7.     frame:MakePopup()
8.  
9. end

Also, I notice you're using a serverside Hook ( PlayerSay ) along with a clientside function ( vgui.create ) which you can't do. In this case, you should use the clientside Hook ( OnPlayerChat )




Anyways, making a ULX command would be much easier. If you need help doing that, just ask! ( This is a community for ULX, after all )

[roastchicken]

I'd like to point out that just AddCSLuaFile() won't help you. As iViscosity pointed out, you're mixing server-side and client-side code and that doesn't work out well.