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textCreateDisplay

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A text display is like a canvas that can contain many items of text. Each display can be seen by multiple observers (players) and each player can see multiple displays.

Syntax

textCreateDisplay ( )

Code Examples

server
function showTextDisplay ( player, command )
local serverDisplay = textCreateDisplay() -- create a text display
textDisplayAddObserver ( serverDisplay, player ) -- make it visible to a player
local serverText = textCreateTextItem ( "Hello world!", 0.5, 0.5 ) -- create a text item for the display
textDisplayAddText ( serverDisplay, serverText ) -- add it to the display so it is displayed
end
addCommandHandler( "showText", showTextDisplay )