Heey,
i was wondering if it is possible to set the hud infront of a menu? So i created a text which should display in the menu. (I took my name).

As an example. I created a new menu which shows different infos about myself. But i created those infos with settext etc. and as soon as i pen up the menu, the text and all that other stuff dissappears. I want it to be on the menu.

Thx

No it isn't possible, menus always overlay the HUD, even if it isn't fullscreen.

Simply apply the text you want to display to the menu files and package them with your mod instead.

If the text is dynamic (it changes) then use cvars to set up the menu data.

could you give me an example of the new menu file? And yeah the text is dynamic.

You need to add a new itemdef to the menu and position it as you want. Here is an example from serverinfo_sd.menu:

// MESSAGE OF THE DAY
itemDef
{
   name			"text_motd"
   visible			1
   rect			0 0 480 150
   origin			80 267
   forecolor		1 1 1 1
   autowrapped
   dvar			"ui_motd"
   textfont		UI_FONT_NORMAL
   textscale		0.25
   textstyle		ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED
   textaligny		16
   decoration
}

You can see that there is a parameter called 'dvar'. This specifies the dvar that provides the text for the element.

Using the above example (but obviously create your own dvar name) use something like the following in your script:

player setClientCvar("your_new_dvar_name","Text to Display");

When the menu is visible the text "Text to Display" will appear at the location specified for the dvar "your_new_dvar_name".

As for positioning, the origin sets the coordinate point where the element starts on the screen. The rect parameter sets the element position relative to the origin and then the height and width of the element, i.e.

rect xpos,ypos,width,height

Hope that helps.

You might use this thread to "type" text to the menu file.
Just wrote it for someone, think it might come in handy here :D

call it as a self thread with text being a string
cvar being a string that is a cvar
speed being a float/int, being characters per second
charsound being a string of a soundfile, which is played every time a character is typed.

so:
self thread writetexttocvar("Welcome to this server","ui_motd",5,"none");

writetexttocvar(text,cvar,speed,charsound)
{
	//call with "none" in charsound for silent typing
	self endon("disconnect");
	//self endon("killed_player");
	self endon("stop_typing_message");

	if(isdefined(text)&&isdefined(speed)&&isdefined(cvar)&&isdefined(charsound))
	{
		if(text.size>0)
		{
			waittime=int(20/speed)/20;
			if(waittime<=0)
				waittime=0.05;
			for(i=1;i<text.size;i++)
			{
				tempstr=getsubstr(text,0,i);
				if(text.size>i+2)
				{
					tmp=getsubstr(text,i,i+2);
					if(tmp=="^1"||tmp=="^2"||tmp=="^3"||tmp=="^4"||tmp=="^5"||tmp=="^6"||tmp=="^7"||tmp=="^8"||tmp=="^9"||tmp=="^0")
					{
						i+=2;
						continue;
					}
				}
				if(charsound!="none")
					self playlocalsound(charsound);
				self setclientcvar("cvar",tempstr);
				wait waittime;
			}
		}
	}
}

how does getsubstr wrk? i mean what does this command do?

lets let var be a string with "Welcome" in it.
Then, getsubstr(var,0,2) will return "We"
getsubstr(var,2,3) will return "l"
getsubstr(var,0,var.size) will just return "Welcome"

gl with it

ahh thank you, i think i got that!