LFS Forum - Updating InSim buttons

#1 - imthebestracerthereis

Updating InSim buttons

Thu 15 Jul 2010, 06:10

Alright, so i'm just toying around again with programming in C# again, and I came across a roadbump.

I have a series of buttons, when User 1 clicks a button (I have it assigned to change the button to their username), but it seems only local, as in User 2, User 3 do not see the button which User 1's username is displayed on. Is this something that is incorrectly configured on my end or is it something that can not be done.

Many Thanks
-Dustin

#2 - PoVo

Thu 15 Jul 2010, 07:35

You have to send out the button with the other users UCID. Ill post a code when im on my PC.

#3 - PoVo

Thu 15 Jul 2010, 08:12

Here's the code you were looking for.

This should all be inside your BTC packet receive event.



<?php 
switch (BTC.ClickID)
{
     case 26: // <- CHANGE BUTTON ID
            
            // Select every connection in clsConnection
            foreach (clsConnection C in Connections)
            {
                   // Do a function to each of them in this case send the button 
                   InSim.Send_BTN_CreateButton("" + Connections[GetConnIdx(BTC.UCID)].PlayerName, Flags.ButtonStyles.ISB_LIGHT, 4, 80, 63, 51, 26/* <- CHANGE BUTTON ID*/, C.UniqueID, 2, false);
            }
               break;
}
?>

This should work well, just change the button ID's!

#4 - broken

Thu 15 Jul 2010, 08:53

Or, setting the UCID to 255 when showing the button, will show it to everyone. Instead of sending it, say 20 times, if that's the average load of an averagely famous server, you'll only have to send it once.

Also, I don't know how right I am, but I think that "foreach" is kind of inefficient. At least, I'd preffer to do it like that(of course, only in case you _need_ to do it that way):



<?php 
switch (BTC.ClickID)
{
     case 26: // <- CHANGE BUTTON ID
          // Select every connection in clsConnection
          for (int i = 0; i < Connections.Count; i++)
          {
               // Do a function to each of them in this case send the button 
               InSim.Send_BTN_CreateButton(Connections[i].PlayerName, Flags.ButtonStyles.ISB_LIGHT, 4, 80, 63, 51, 26/* <- CHANGE BUTTON ID*/, Connections[i].UniqueID, 2, false);
          }
          break;
} 
?>

There is some possibility that some things could be wrong in the code above, but I haven't been programming in C# for quite a while. What could be wrong: Well, mainly variable/class names, as I don't know lfs_external by heart that much.

#5 - imthebestracerthereis

Fri 16 Jul 2010, 04:35

Thanks guys, that did the trick.