TextItemSetText

Overwrites a previously created text item with the specified text.

Syntax

void textItemSetText ( textitem theTextitem, string text )

Required Arguments

• theTextitem: An existing text item that was previously created with textDisplayAddText
• text: The new text for the text item

Example

Here, it is being used to update a scoreboard:

function onPlayerWasted ( ammo, killer, weapon )
	if ( killer ~= false) then   -- Check to see if anything killed the player
		local killerTeam = getTeamName ( getPlayerTeam(killer) )
		if ( killerTeam == "grove" ) then           -- if a Grove player scored the kill
			groveteamscore = groveteamscore + 1   -- Grove gets 1 point
			textItemSetText ( scoregrove, tostring(groveteamscore) ) -- Update scoreboard.
		elseif ( killerTeam == "balla" ) then       -- if a Balla player scored the kill
			ballateamscore = ballateamscore + 1   -- Ballas get 1 point
			textItemSetText ( scoreballa, tostring(ballateamscore) ) -- Update scoreboard.
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerWasted", getRootElement(), onPlayerWasted )

See Also

• textCreateDisplay
• textCreateTextItem
• textDestroyDisplay
• textDestroyTextItem
• textDisplayAddObserver
• textDisplayAddText
• textDisplayGetObservers
• textDisplayIsObserver
• textDisplayRemoveObserver
• textDisplayRemoveText
• textItemGetColor
• textItemGetPosition
• textItemGetPriority
• textItemGetScale
• textItemGetText
• textItemSetColor
• textItemSetPosition
• textItemSetPriority
• textItemSetScale
• textItemSetText