Shared.Message() ?

TinCan

I'm trying to get the server to print something to a client's console. I found Shared.Message() in ConsoleCommands_Server so that looked hopeful to me but now in testing I cannot seem to get the existing list_players command to print anything. Is that supposed to work? Maybe a game needs to be in progress or other players exist or something?

More importantly How can I get the server to print something to the client's console?

BeigeAlert

You'll need to hook up a network message for that, and use the Client only command "ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(string)"

So your code might look like this:

Shared.RegisterNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = "string (256)" })
if Server then
    function ServerSendSystemMessage(text)
        Server.SendNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = text }, true)
    end
end
if Client then
    function OnClientReceiveSystemMessage(message)
        ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(message.text)
    end
    Client.HookNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", OnClientReceiveSystemMessage)
end

GhoulofGSG9

BeigeAlert wrote: »

You'll need to hook up a network message for that, and use the Client only command "ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(string)"

So your code might look like this:

Shared.RegisterNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = "string (256)" })
if Server then
    function ServerSendSystemMessage(text)
        Server.SendNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = text }, true)
    end
end
if Client then
    function OnClientReceiveSystemMessage(message)
        ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(message.text)
    end
    Client.HookNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", OnClientReceiveSystemMessage)
end

In case you don't want to construct this yourself you can also just use

ServerAdminPrint(client, message)

TinCan

Still struggling here...
I think I'm close but no joy. It could just be I'm doing something wrong but the trouble with troubleshooting is my mod acts differently when testing locally launching from launchpad to a published mod loaded on a dedicated server.

@BeigeAlert
When I use your method:
Using Launchpad: Text shows up on screen for a bit (kind of cool) but nothing in the console.
Real Server: Nothing on screen or in console but the text does show up in the log. (close)

@GhoulofGSG9
When I use your method:
Using Launchpad: Text shows up in the console (hooray!) but it shows up twice (meh).
Real Server: Nothing in log or console. (boo)

BeigeAlert

To have it show up in console, have it print the same text using the Log() command. It takes a format string and any number of parameters. If you run it on server, it will show up in the server console only, so you'll need to have it on the client as well.

What other mods are on the server? Might be one of them is overriding the text behavior.

TinCan

Still having trouble and I'm sure it's my confusion. I guess I'm not clear how to get the message to the client on demand. Should it look something like this?

---

Shared.RegisterNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = "string (256)" })
if Server then
    function ServerSendSystemMessage(text)
        Server.SendNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = text }, true)
    end
end
if Client then
    function OnClientReceiveSystemMessage(message)
        ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(message.text)
    end
    Client.HookNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", OnClientReceiveSystemMessage)
end

function printit(client)
    if Server then
-- Here is where the server will open a file and read the text 
-- that I want to send to the client's console, but for example
-- I'll just do this:  
    MyMessageName = "testing"
    end
    if Client then
        log(MyMessageName)
    end
end

Event.Hook("Console_printit", printit)

GhoulofGSG9

TinCan wrote: »

Still having trouble and I'm sure it's my confusion. I guess I'm not clear how to get the message to the client on demand. Should it look something like this?

---

Shared.RegisterNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = "string (256)" })
if Server then
    function ServerSendSystemMessage(text)
        Server.SendNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", { text = text }, true)
    end
end
if Client then
    function OnClientReceiveSystemMessage(message)
        ChatUI_AddSystemMessage(message.text)
    end
    Client.HookNetworkMessage("MyMessageName", OnClientReceiveSystemMessage)
end

function printit(client)
    if Server then
-- Here is where the server will open a file and read the text 
-- that I want to send to the client's console, but for example
-- I'll just do this:  
    MyMessageName = "testing"
    end
    if Client then
        log(MyMessageName)
    end
end

Event.Hook("Console_printit", printit)

I would suggest to have a look at the Network Message part of my modding guide draft at https://goo.gl/128GvS .

That ServerAdminPrint(client, message) shows the message twice in the console of a local server (assuming you send it to the hosting client) is an expected behavior as the given method prints both into server's and target client's console. At a local server both console are the same so the message shows up twice

Also feel free to join the #modding channel at our discord if you have further project specific questions.

TinCan

Finally got it sorted out.

I had not set my mod.settings file to Read-only and (arg!) the publish_id had changed so when I thought I was testing new code on the server, I wasn't. That explains a lot, So frustrating.

---

I ended up going with

local function NotifyPlayer(player, message)
    Server.SendNetworkMessage(player, "ServerAdminPrint", { message = message }, true)
end


NotifyPlayer(player, Message)

GhoulofGSG9 wrote: »

I would suggest to have a look at the Network Message part of my modding guide draft at https://goo.gl/128GvS .

Great stuff. +1