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SendClientMessageToAll

Description

Displays a message in chat to all players. This is a multi-player equivalent of SendClientMessage.

Name	Description
colour	The color of the message (0xRRGGBBAA Hex format).
const format[]	The message to show (max 144 characters).
OPEN_MP_TAGS:...	Indefinite number of arguments of any tag.

Returns

This function always returns true (1).

Examples

public OnPlayerCommandText(playerid, cmdtext[])
{
    if (strcmp(cmdtext, "/helloworld", true) == 0)
    {
        // Send a message to everyone.
        SendClientMessageToAll(-1, "Hello!");
        return 1;
    }
    if (strcmp(cmdtext, "/time", true) == 0)
    {
        new
            hours,
            minutes,
            seconds;

        gettime(hours, minutes, seconds);

        // Send current time message to everyone.
        SendClientMessageToAll(-1, "Current time is %02d:%02d:%02d", hours, minutes, seconds);
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}

Notes

warning

Avoid using format specifiers in your messages without formatting the string that is sent. It will result in crashes otherwise.

Related Functions

SendClientMessage: Send a message to a certain player.
SendPlayerMessageToAll: Force a player to send text for all players.