[HELP] Increase the duration of a help message

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1

Hey, so I want to make a message appear for the player but at the minute it appears for like half a second.

When they reach an area a message appears telling them to press E to search:
Screenshot 2023-12-12 143405

If they are inside a vehicle and they press E to search I want a message to appear for a certain amount of time that states that they must exit the vehicle to search. My current code does this but the message appears and then dissapears in a flash.

This is my function for creating a message:

local function ShowNotification(text)
  SetTextComponentFormat("STRING")
  AddTextComponentString(text)
  DisplayHelpTextFromStringLabel(0, 0, 1, 50)
end

I have tried messing around with the last parameter of the DisplayHelpTextFromStringLabel but nothing changed.

Here is my code for checking the distance and when to display the mesages:

local function CheckDistance(loc)
  CreateThread(function()
    while true do

      local playerCoords = GetEntityCoords(playerId)
      local distance = #(playerCoords - loc.coords)

      if distance < 8.0 then
        DisplayMarker()

        if distance < 2.0 then
          ShowNotification('Press ~INPUT_PICKUP~ to Search')
          
          if IsControlJustPressed(0, 38) then
            if not IsPedInAnyVehicle(playerId, true) then
              print('You searched for treasure and found nothing!')
              isHuntActive = false
              break
            else
              ShowNotification('You must exit the vehicle to search!')
            end
          end
        end
      end
      Wait(0)
    end
  end)
end

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

2

The fourth parameter is the duration in ms of how long this message should display for.

local function ShowNotification(text)
     BeginTextCommandDisplayHelp("STRING")
     AddTextComponentSubstringPlayerName(text)
     EndTextCommandDisplayHelp(0, false, true, 5000) -- displays for 5s
end
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4

Thank you, I will try this out!

5

Hey, so I’m still having the issue where the message displays for a split second.

This is the code I put into the function:

local function ShowNotification(text)
  BeginTextCommandDisplayHelp("STRING")
  AddTextComponentSubstringPlayerName(text)
  EndTextCommandDisplayHelp(0, false, true, 3000)
end

I am now starting to think maybe I am looping back over and not giving the message a chance to display for the duration set. The problem is I’m a beginner and I’m not sure where I am going wrong.

Here is my code, do you see any areas that are causing this issue?

local function CheckDistance(loc)
  CreateThread(function()
    while true do

      local playerCoords = GetEntityCoords(playerId)
      local distance = #(playerCoords - loc.coords)

      if distance < 8.0 then
        DisplayMarker()

        if distance < 2.0 then
          ShowNotification('Press ~INPUT_PICKUP~ to Search')
          
          if IsControlJustPressed(0, 38) then
            if not IsPedInAnyVehicle(playerId, true) then
              print('You searched for treasure and found nothing!')
              isHuntActive = false
              break
            else
              ShowNotification('You must exit the vehicle to search!')
            end
          end
        end
      end
      Wait(0)
    end
  end)
end

Thanks for your help!

UPDATE: Adding Wait(3000) after calling the function works but the parameter does not:

local function CheckDistance(loc)
  CreateThread(function()
    while true do

      local playerCoords = GetEntityCoords(playerId)
      local distance = #(playerCoords - loc.coords)

      if distance < 8.0 then
        DisplayMarker()

        if distance < 2.0 then
          ShowNotification('Press ~INPUT_PICKUP~ to Search')
          
          if IsControlJustPressed(0, 38) then
            if not IsPedInAnyVehicle(playerId, true) then
              print('You searched for treasure and found nothing!')
              isHuntActive = false
              break
            else
              ShowNotification('You must exit the vehicle to search!')
              Wait(3000)
            end
          end
        end
      end
      Wait(0)
    end
  end)
end