RegisterCommand and how to pass the args properly

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I’ve spent a good amount of time tinkering with this tonight, and perusing the forums. I’ve gotten as far as I have based on the information I’ve been able to identify on my own. I am, however, not getting expected results and would like to see if anyone could point out what simple mistake I am making.

My test case is a very visible Window Toggle in Vehicles. No arguments will roll down/up all windows, and the intention is for a provided argument to roll down the appropriate window 0, 1, 2, or 3. I haven’t even dove into displaying in the help what the appropriate arguments are and I hope to do this next, but first I need this to function. Any argument will toggle window 0 only right now… it doesn’t matter what number is provided. I suspect this is related to chat being a string and not an int, but I’m about to sign off for the night and won’t approach again until tomorrow.

Server

RegisterCommand('rw', function(source, args, raw)
	if args ~= nil then
		TriggerClientEvent('rollwindow', source, args[1])
	else
		TriggerClientEvent('rollwindow', source)
	end
end, false)

Client

local windowup = true
RegisterNetEvent('rollwindow')
AddEventHandler('rollwindow', function(args)
    local playerPed = GetPlayerPed(-1)
    if IsPedInAnyVehicle(playerPed, false) then
        local playerCar = GetVehiclePedIsIn(playerPed, false)
		if ( GetPedInVehicleSeat( playerCar, -1 ) == playerPed ) then 
            SetEntityAsMissionEntity( playerCar, true, true )
		
			if ( windowup ) then
				if args ~= nil then
					RollDownWindow(playerCar, args[1])
				else
					RollDownWindows(playerCar)
				end
				--TriggerEvent('chatMessage', '', {255,0,0}, 'Windows down')
				windowup = false
			else
				if args ~= nil then
					RollUpWindow(playerCar, args[1])
				else
					RollUpWindow(playerCar, 0)
					RollUpWindow(playerCar, 1)
					RollUpWindow(playerCar, 2)
					RollUpWindow(playerCar, 3)
				end
				--TriggerEvent('chatMessage', '', {255,0,0}, 'Windows up')
				windowup = true
			end
		end
	end
end)

When I printed the args[1] to chat it output {0}{1} but not value. I am certain I simply haven’t looked deeply into harvesting the integer value from this, but I figured I’d post this before going to bed in case another restless scripter would be willing to share their insight.

I appreciate anyone that assists.

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RegisterCommand('rw', function(source, args, raw)
   local window = tonumber(args[1])
	if window ~= nil then
		TriggerClientEvent('rollwindow', source, window)
	else
		TriggerClientEvent('rollwindow', source, 1)
	end
end,)

You needa specify what args as well on line 3 of mine… Which is what I fixed…

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Faxes,
Thanks kindly for your response. I figured today I would have been digging through the Lua methods to determine if I was properly capturing the data in the args array. You clarified this for me with tonumber() which is great.

I assume that the args array is carrying strings which would explain a lot to me. It was just getting late and I was no longer processing information well haha!

Again thank you kindly.

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No probs bro. 6am coding as in my boat script :smiley: I think I put comments in it :joy: