OnPlayerChangeNick
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This event is triggered when a player changes his nickname.
Parameters
string oldNick, string newNick
- oldNick: the nickname the player had before.
- newNick: the new nickname of the player.
Source
The source of this event is the player that changed his nick
Cancel effect
Cancelling this event depends on how it is called, if it is called by the scripting event then it is NOT cancelable if it is called from the /nick command it IS cancel able. If this event is cancelled and can be cancelled then the name will not change.
Example
function nickChangeHandler(oldNick, newNick)
-- check if there's account with newNick as username
if getAccount(newNick) then
local thePlayer = getPlayerFromNick(newNick)
outputChatBox("Sorry, there already exists an account with your new nickname as username.", thePlayer, 0, 255, 0)
outputChatBox("Please choose another one.", thePlayer, 0, 255, 0)
-- cancel the event to prevent the nick from being changed
cancelEvent()
end
end
-- add an event handler
addEventHandler("onPlayerChangeNick", getRootElement(), nickChangeHandler)
See Also
Player events
- onPlayerACInfo
- onPlayerBan
- onPlayerChangeNick
- onPlayerChat
- onPlayerClick
- onPlayerCommand
- onPlayerConnect
- onPlayerContact
- onPlayerDamage
- onPlayerJoin
- onPlayerLogin
- onPlayerLogout
- onPlayerMarkerHit
- onPlayerMarkerLeave
- onPlayerModInfo
- onPlayerMute
- onPlayerNetworkStatus
- onPlayerPickupHit
- onPlayerPickupLeave
- onPlayerPickupUse
- onPlayerPrivateMessage
- onPlayerQuit
- onPlayerScreenShot
- onPlayerSpawn
- onPlayerStealthKill
- onPlayerTarget
- onPlayerUnmute
- onPlayerVehicleEnter
- onPlayerVehicleExit
- onPlayerVoiceStart
- onPlayerVoiceStop
- onPlayerWasted
- onPlayerWeaponFire
- onPlayerWeaponSwitch
Event functions
- addEvent
- addEventHandler
- cancelEvent
- cancelLatentEvent
- getEventHandlers
- getLatentEventHandles
- getLatentEventStatus
- removeEventHandler
- triggerEvent
- wasEventCancelled