GetVehiclePlateText

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Reason(s): This function doesn't work, mantis #2457 --Norby89 13:47, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

This function is used to retrieve the text on the number plate of a specified vehicle.

Syntax

string getVehiclePlateText ( vehicle theVehicle )

Required Arguments

  • theVehicle: A handle to the vehicle that you wish to retrieve the plate text from.

Returns

Returns a string that coresponds to the plate on the text or false if a bad argument was passed or if the vehicle is not a car.

Example

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Server

This example outputs the text on the license plate of the vehicle the player is driving to the chatbox. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> function scriptPlate ( player, command )

 local aVehicle = getPlayerOccupiedVehicle ( getLocalPlayer() )
 local text = getVehiclePlateText ( aVehicle )
 if ( text and aVehicle ) then
   outputChatBox ( "text" )
 else outputChatBox ( "your vehicle has no licence plate or you're not in a vehicle" )
 end

end addCommandHandler( "plate", scriptPlate )

</syntaxhighlight>

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