doSendAnimatedText doesn't work anymore

[Fermantor]

I have found a 9.6 TFS Server and Updated my old 8.62 and started to test all my scripts, for errors. Everything worked fine except those two.
I have a movement function, when you step on a field a "lever" is pulled, and "click" apears.

gittertür.lua

function onStepIn(cid, item, position, fromPosition)
	if isPlayer(cid) == TRUE then
		if getGlobalStorageValue(item.actionid) ~= 1 then
			doSendAnimatedText(position, 'Click', TEXTCOLOR_ORANGE)
			setGlobalStorageValue(item.actionid, 1)
		end
	end
	return TRUE
end

But then comes this error

[07/10/2012 16:08:02] Lua Script Error: [MoveEvents Interface] 
[07/10/2012 16:08:02] data/movements/scripts/quests/Pantra/Befreiung/gittertür.lua:onStepIn
[07/10/2012 16:08:02] LuaScriptInterface::luaDoSendAnimatedText(). Deprecated function.
[07/10/2012 16:08:02] stack traceback:
[07/10/2012 16:08:02] 	[C]: in function 'doSendAnimatedText'
[07/10/2012 16:08:02] 	.../movements/scripts/quests/Pantra/Befreiung/gittertür.lua:4: in function <.../movements/scripts/quests/Pantra/Befreiung/gittertür.lua:1>

And my second problem is, that a npc doesn't want to sell an item anymore.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<npc name="Toxina" script="data/npc/scripts/Pantra/magic.lua" walkinterval="2000" floorchange="0">
	<health now="100" max="100"/>
	<look type="138" head="79" body="119" legs="81" feet="115" addons="1"/>
	<parameters>
		<parameter key="module_shop" value="3"/>

		<parameter key="shop_buyable" value="small health potion,8704,40;antidote potion,8474,50;vial,2006,100"/>

		<parameter key="shop_sellable" value="empty potion flask,7636,5;empty vial,2006,5;flask,8205,150,tarantula poison"/>
		<parameter key="message_farewell" value="Auf Wiedersehen, |PLAYERNAME|.Ich muss wieder an meine Arbeit! Also, zwei Bonelord Eyes, drei Fish Fins, acht...!"/>
	</parameters>
</npc>

This npc doesn't sell vial anymore :/

I hope someone can help me, with one of this problems, thank you

 

[Evan]

The error speaks for itself, the doSendAnimatedText function no longer exists in 9.6.

 

[Fady]

doSendAnimatedText function was removed on 9.0 I think, its not possible to let it work again on normal client because cipsoft removed it.
but there are 2 solutions:
1. replace it with doCreatureSay(it will work the same but with orange color only)
2. use custom client(8.71) and add all sprites of 9.6

 

[Fermantor]

Haha, okay thanks
I think, I will use creaturesay.
But when an NPC adds Exp to a player, it looks stupid when I use the creatureSay function :/

 

[Fady]

Haha, okay thanks
I think, I will use creaturesay.
But when an NPC adds Exp to a player, it looks stupid when I use the creatureSay function :/

its the only way

 

[Red]

Untrue. If you want an NPC to give players experience and have it look like it would if you gained it from a monster, use the doPlayerAddExpEx instead of the doPlayerAddExperience function.

doPlayerAddExpEx(cid, amount)

It's in 050-function.lua
Red

 

[Fermantor]

Untrue. If you want an NPC to give players experience and have it look like it would if you gained it from a monster, use the doPlayerAddExpEx instead of the doPlayerAddExperience function.

doPlayerAddExpEx(cid, amount)

It's in 050-function.lua
Red

Hmm, on my server, this doesn't work :/

 

[Red]

Do you have the function in your 050-function.lua file?

 

[Cykotitan]

uh, this is only good for numeric values
my attempt at backwards compatibility

function doSendAnimatedText(pos, text, color, cid)
	if tonumber(text) then
		text = tonumber(text)
		if cid and isPlayer(cid) then
			doPlayerSendTextMessage(cid, MESSAGE_EXPERIENCE_OTHERS, '', text, color, pos)
		else
			local t = getSpectators(pos, 7, 5, false)
			if t then
				for _, cid in ipairs(t) do
					if isPlayer(cid) then
						doPlayerSendTextMessage(cid, MESSAGE_EXPERIENCE_OTHERS, '', text, color, pos)
					end
				end
			end
		end
	else
		if cid and isCreature(cid) then
			doCreatureSay(cid, text, TALKTYPE_ORANGE_1)
		else
			local t = getSpectators(pos, 7, 5, false)
			if t then
				for _, cid in ipairs(t) do
					if isPlayer(cid) then
						doCreatureSay(cid, text, TALKTYPE_ORANGE_1, false, cid, pos)
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end