Ulx Error.

[ReconPWN]

Hello I am ReconPWN I am running a server, Well baby sitting it. This server is running build/sandbox and the ulx menu (!menu) Is to my belief broken when I click to enable noclip, disable pvp, basically all of the tabs in the *Admin* section of the menu is broken and gives me an odd message in console:

ulx\modules\cl\adminmenu.lua:50: bad argument #1 to 'SetText' (string expected, got nil)

If you need more information on this subject or you plan on giving me detailed instructions on how to fix it please add me on steam: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198007703662/

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Thank You
-ReconPWN

[Megiddo]

Is this SVN or release version of ULX?

[ReconPWN]

SVN from my knowledge

[Megiddo]

Bumps are not appreciated. If you'd spend the time searching instead of bumping you'd find a solution.

[ReconPWN]

My intentions weren't to bump on this.......forum? My motive was to contact YOU people who made this program which is running on my server and yet you brush it off and make me look like stupid. Well thank you, great way to help your community and your users.

Edit by Megiddo: There are children on this forum, please be considerate.

[ReconPWN]

Whatever obviously you don't know how to manage a community and I feel sorry for you, On the other hand your peers might be more....qualified for the job? Sorry for the trouble I just wanted answers.

[Megiddo]

We're sorry you feel that way, do you have any suggestions on how we can improve? Surely you must understand our respective situations, our problem is that we don't want to answer the same question over and over, your problem is that you weren't aware you could easily find the answer to your question. So, where's the middle ground?

[ReconPWN]

As a member of ULX your job is to develop, trial and error. In an instance of an "error" you help your community that may be giving a simple answer like you could of done. Even give me this so called "over and over question" that you keep saying. The basic goal of this forum is to keep in touch with the community not start being active when I start demanding answers. You can stop trying to act like you're above me, not to mention keep your social status to your peers. Thanks anyways I'm done here.

[JamminR]

If you do manage to come by again and see if there is a reply;
If iinstead of taking the 10 minutes of posts and bumps asking the same question repeatedly and instead you'd taken the 30 seconds to type in the Search box from the forum main page (every theme we use has this Search box) the words "SetText" from your error, you would have seen several topics.
Most were resolved in the discussions of those posts.
Almost all were found in the release version of ULX, not SVN.

As developers we're not above you. As developers, we're frustrated of people like you. As hobbyists for this development, we have no time for people like you.

Hope that helped.
Regards

[jay209015]

Results of 30 seconds using the search bar.
Search results for: bad argument #1 to 'SetText' (string expected, got nil)

I'll even go one step further and show you the post here.

It's always the simple things isn't it!

Uninstalling and reinstalling the mod seemed to work, although there was an update to the one I re-uploaded (some base.lua or something).  That might have fixed it, or it may have been random. 

Either way, it works now! 

[MrPresident]

I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread. The OP said he was not coming back and so far from what I've seen he takes constructive criticism and politeness way out of context.

My advice to anyone reading this thread is this: If you come into someone else's community and start bashing their leadership, don't expect to be treated very kindly. Megiddo held his cool a lot better than I think I would have had this happened on one of my forums.

Either way... Had you (ReconPWN) been around here any longer it would have been painfully clear to you that the reason we don't like people coming in here and asking questions that can easily be searched for using the built in search box is because this kind of thing happens far too often. We, as a community, answer many questions every single day about ULX and I guarantee that any possible issue you could have has been discussed in depth at least 3 times on these forums.

And fyi... Megiddo is a great leader and a very talented programmer. ULX is not a service so you have no right to come in here and demand anything. Take it as it is.. but this admin mod has the longest shelf life of any other addon in GMod history and the "customer service" is astonishing... sorry we just don't cater to every single persons little problems.

[JamminR]

to every single persons little problems.

Clarification - Actually we would and often do deal with almost everyone's little real problems, so long as they are new, haven't been resolved elsewhere, and as you did state, we aren't bashed in the process.

Well said MrPresident.