OnResourcePreStart

Analogous to onResourceStart, but triggered before script files are initialised.

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Important: If you attach this event to the root element it will be called when any resource starts - attach it to to the root element of the desired resource, eg. getResourceRootElement(getResourceFromName("freeroam")).

Parameters

resource startingResource

• startingResource: The resource that is starting

Source

The source of this event is the root element of the resource.

Cancel effect

If this event is cancelled, the resource won't begin starting.

Example

This code will output the name of any resource that is starting.

function displayStartingRes ( res )
	outputChatBox ( "Resource " .. getResourceName(res) .. " is going to start", getRootElement(), 255, 255, 255 )
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourcePreStart", getRootElement(), displayStartingRes )

See Also

Resource events

BETA: NEW FEATURE (BUILD: 1.6.0 r22430)
onResourceStateChange
• onPlayerResourceStart
• onResourceLoadStateChange
• onResourcePreStart
• onResourceStart
• onResourceStop

Event functions

• addEvent
• addEventHandler
• cancelEvent
• cancelLatentEvent
• getEventHandlers
• getLatentEventHandles
• getLatentEventStatus
• removeEventHandler
• triggerEvent
• wasEventCancelled