Basic Messages

Help Boxes

In the base game, text commands require a GXT key - an 8-character string referencing one of the predefined text entries in the active GXT file (for example, american.gxt when the game language is set to English).

For example, to display a help box with the text ‘San Andreas’, you need to use the command PRINT_HELP with the key 'SAN_AND':

PRINT_HELP {key} 'SAN_AND'

Tip

How one could find what key refers to what text? There is an online tool that lets you navigate all standard game messages and their keys: https://public.sannybuilder.com/GXT/search/?game=SA%20PC. It supports all available languages and can work with user-provided GXT files.

Sometimes you need custom text that doesn’t exist in the original GXT files. There are two easy ways to do this:

1. CLEO supports custom text dictionary format called FXT, which allows you to define new keys and messages without having to edit GXT files. FXT files are loaded automatically from the CLEO_TEXT folder.

Each FXT file contains a list of plain text entries in the following format:

<KEY> <TEXT>

2. Use CLEO commands that accept strings directly, without using a GXT key. For example, to display the same help box use:

PRINT_HELP_STRING {text} "San Andreas"

Notice that because the text is longer than 8 characters, you need to use double quotes.

Mission Text

Here is some other message commands and their CLEO counterpart:

PRINT_NOW

Native Command	CLEO Command
PRINT_NOW {key} 'SAN_AND' {duration} 3000 {style} 1	PRINT_STRING_NOW {text} "San Andreas" {duration} 3000

PRINT_BIG

Native Command	CLEO Command
PRINT_BIG {key} 'SAN_AND' {duration} 3000 {style} 1	PRINT_BIG_STRING {text} "San Andreas" {duration} 3000 {style} 1

To find more information about each command and different styles, visit the Text class in Sanny Builder Library.