Pair: setBlipIcon

This function returns the icon a blip currently has. See Radar Blips.

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• Method: blip:getIcon(...)
• Variable: .icon

Syntax

int|false getBlipIcon ( blip theBlip )

Required Arguments

• theBlip: The blip we're getting the icon number of.

Returns

• int|false: icon

Returns an int indicating which icon the blip has.

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP)

shared

This example will find all the blips that exist and set them all to the default blip icon.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = getElementsByType ( "blip" )
-- Loop through the list, storing the blip from the table in the variable blipValue
for blipKey, blipValue in ipairs(blips) do
  -- Retrieve the blip's icon into the variable 'blipIcon'
  local blipIcon = getBlipIcon ( blipValue )
  -- If the blip's icon wasn't the default already
  if ( blipIcon ~= 0 ) then
    -- Set the blip's icon to the default
    setBlipIcon ( blipValue, 0 )
  end
end

shared

OOP Required

This example will find all the blips that exist and set them all to the default blip icon.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = Element.getAllByType ( "blip" )
-- Loop through the list, storing the blip from the table in the variable blipValue
for blipKey, blipValue in ipairs(blips) do
  -- Retrieve the blip's icon into the variable 'blipIcon'
  local blipIcon = blipValue.icon
  -- If the blip's icon wasn't the default already
  if ( blipIcon ~= 0 ) then
    -- Set the blip's icon to the default
    blipValue.icon = 0
  end
end

See Also

Blip Functions

• createBlipAttachedTo
• getBlipColor
• getBlipOrdering
• getBlipIcon
• createBlip
• getBlipVisibleDistance
• setBlipColor
• getBlipSize
• setBlipIcon
• setBlipVisibleDistance
• setBlipOrdering
• setBlipSize

Reference

• Scripting Functions