[C#] Add Text to HUD

FiveM Resource Development Discussion
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I wanna be able to draw a text on the screen and change the text at runtime. I figured I would do something like:

Text text = new Text(“Test to see if this works”, new System.Drawing.PointF(20, 30), 1.0f);

text.Draw();

and then whenever I wanna change it use something like: text.caption = “whateverIwant”;

But the text doesn’t show on my screen.

I tried it on playerspawn.

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Text needs to be drawn every frame on screen every frame.
So you’ll need to draw the text in the OnTick, and have another function change or enable/disable the text.

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Thanks a lot! The text does flash this way even with delay of 0 but it does work :smiley:

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If you’re running it on the OnTick you shouldn’t put a delay in it. Because it’s already ran once every tick and it’s not in a while (true) loop that’d cause the thread to be blocked :wink:

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Yeah I had delay set to 0. so I just took it away, works perfectly fine now, it sucks there is not much documentation on UI and c# :frowning:

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You can learn a lot just by looking through the different classes here: https://github.com/citizenfx/fivem/tree/5db7a5cee1ae1de65b98ffc8c9a19521d7567352/code/client/clrcore/External

If there is something I want to do, and I know it uses a specific function, I’ll just search it on the github repo and it will bring me to the appropriate class and methods I need.

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Oh that definitely is useful thank you so much!

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